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Pepper+Fire=A hotter pepper

It depends on what you cook it with. Sometimes the peppers get milder, such as in our dessert sauces.

Interestingly enough, I'm at a loss for what to answer too, and the Peppermaster isn't here to ask. He's at another trade show. (I called in sick today).

I'm thinking that it's not that the peppers intensify so much as they just get spread around your mouth better and they fire on tastebuds that they wouldn't normally fire on because of the other ingredints they're cooked with. Possibly the other ingredients chemically attach to the capsaicin molecule and they bring the capsaicin to places on your tongue that it doesn't go to by itself. Of course, I'm just guessing.

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