[SIZE=medium]I’ve heard rumors that cooking or boiling peppers can make them milder. I’m sure when you’re scorching a pepper over a flame that the reason your eyes are burning is because some of hot flavor must be getting lost in the cooking process. Is this true for all forms of cooking? [/SIZE]
Why do peppers seem hotter raw?
- Thread starter Dug
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yes exactly, the oils get diluted with cooking and absorbed in the rest of the food.. the same amount of heat is there its just spread out as far as roasting the outside skins off I cant say i ever got and burning eyes doing that but i guess it could happen.
howardsnm1 said:
'Zactly.
I was boiling some red scorpions for something I was making, and maced us out of the house for a bit. The dog was even screwed up.
My wife laughs now, but she was ready to kill me then.
I skip the eye protection, but that's the exact respirator I use.
Ever cough whilst cooking with peppers? This dispels it as a rumor.Dug said:
It gets in to the air!