I understand the concept of making extract with grain alcohol, but what do you get if you distill dried peppers, what is the oil that will cool out of the smoke.
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Distilling?
- Thread starter heartbreakingdawns
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so if you put dried peppers in a distiller you'd evaporate everything BUT the cap. I'm not doing it, just curious.
We actually use liquid CO2 during one of the many distillations for the Zero stuff. We use it as a shock catalyst to draw more of the sugar away from the capsaicin, leaving it substantially hotter. Just be careful, I actually suffered a rather large cryoburn a few years ago when one the the o-rings burst, covering my lower arm in liquid CO2. It was kind of cool, seeing the skin turn black in a day or so, but I wouldn't suggest doing it on prupose.