Re: [CH] Making Powder
Dave Sacerdote (davesas@tiac.net)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:03:30 -0500 (EST)
>"Reminded me of when
>some friends and I decided to taste his capsaicin self-defense spray and
>cleared out my kitchen. :-)"
>
>How was it? I've heard tales of people (with sturdier stomachs than I) using
>an entire 2 oz canister of Bodyguard 2 million SHU OC spray in a pot of chili.
>Sounds a bit toasty.
We had six or seven people in the kitchen; three of us could be called
chile-heads. We had just taken tastes of pure capsaicin oleoresin from
a small jarful brought by another friend, and decided to taste the self-
defense spray to test which one was hotter. Took the spray and a 12-inch
stainless-steel pizza pan into the pantry and sprayed a 2-inch diameter
pool of nasty-looking red spray into the middle. When my friend walked
out of the pantry, those who wanted to stuck a finger into the spray puddle
to grab a taste...but seconds later the vapors from the spray wafted into
the room and had us all in tears, gagging and choking. Looking back at it
it's pretty damn funny, but at the time we were all laughing too hard to
notice <g>
As for the taste: It's hot in a mouth-numbing way, but not as hot as it
could be, probably because the sprays aren't kept refrigerated to preserve
their potency. :-) And there was a VERY heavy metallic aftertaste. The
pure capsaicin resin was just as hot if not hotter, but the aftertaste
was much better, it tasted like a roasted pepper, without a hint of it's
laboratory origins. I blended some with butter to put on popcorn. A
little dab'll do ya, as they say. <g>
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Dave Sacerdote
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