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If you're thinking of using ketones like acetone, please note this warning:

Does this look like fun or what?

More recipes for the cap-extraction obsessed!

Another recipe. I just know you guys and gals are going to be trying to make some of this, aren't you?

Why is PURE capsaicin dangerous? "Pure capsaicin is so powerful that chemists who handle the crystalline powder must work in a filtered "tox room" in full body protection. The suit has a closed hood to prevent inhaling the powder. Said pharmaceutical chemist Lloyd Matheson of the University of...

C'mon, guys, nobody here have any recipes? Here's a simple one: In a blender, puree the Habaneros in as much Ethanol as possible. Let the mixture sit overnight at room temperature. Longer is better. Pour the resultant sludge through paper towels and place the liquid in a glass container. Begin...

The process for making chili extracts for food is not all that dissimilar, but you can't use acetone. Alcohol, yes. And some other people have secret methods. To get really concentrated stuff, you need to evaporate off the solvent, or distill it away. Then to get pure capsaicin you need to break...

2.5 gram of oil with still moisture in it

This forum is titled "Hot Peppers, growing, eating, whatever". I guess my interest in peppers falls under the "whatever" rubric. I'm interested in making a homemade version of the capsaicin spray you can buy bottled for about $10 in the USA. Ideas? For starters, you can use chemicals normally...

That plant looks beautiful.

Thank you, Guy. :)

It's simple, people. "Indians" are a race (India is populated mostly by Indo-Aryans). If he'd substituted "Eskimos" for Indians, you'd see my point. Or "Blacks". I'm surprised this is not apparent to you. What he should have done is name the scientists by name. Which would have made the item he...

Remos, you obviously have some problems with reading comprehension.

And here's the evidence of his racism. Without any proof whatsoever that the Indians cheated, in fact with proof from Dorset that they probably did NOT cheat, DeWitt, the self-styled "Pope of Peppers", published this: The Indian researchers and people involved should simply sue this guy's...

Willard3, I suggest you review the various websites purporting to "debunk" the Indian tests. They debunk the results on the flimsiest of grounds, such as phone calls that weren't returned, and methodology that didn't seem quite right by our standards, etc. In other words, if you don't play by...

Tina, I'm wary of online suppliers. Even if you get the right seed, it's often no longer viable.

I have some real problems with the way the Indian claims of high Scoville scores for naga jolokia have been handled in the West, with suggestions of dishonesty and fraud. It smacks of racism to me. Michael and Joy Michaud's peppers are from the same region, are probably even the same peppers...

Main thing is, I WANT THOSE SEEDS!!

Mark, the pepper that some people call "jolokia" (long, thin, cayenne-like) is NOT naga jolokia aka Bih Jolokia. Naga is a region (Nagaland) and jolokia just means "pepper". Study the wikipedia page on that pepper (see link above). Check all links on that page. The real Naga Jolokia seem to be...

That's ok. I got more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_jolokia :mouthonfire: