[CH] Re: {CH} Chile Head forum
Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:30:57 -0400
Hi C-H's,
In reply to DWALLS9102,
BTW - Chile Heads are friendly - it's OK to use your name!
>Cameron, please explain to me how the ethanol is able to carry away
>the capsaicin with it as it evaporates.
>The only way that could possibly happen is if the capsaicin's
>boiling point is either below or very close to the boiling point of
>the ethanol. So, what then, is the boiling point of capsaicin?
Capsaicins are a group of chemicals found in Capsicums. They have
boiling points close to that of ethanol. You extracted not only
capsaicins, but all sorts of other stuff too. In the process of
evaporating off the constituents the temperature gets high enough for
you to loose the good stuff. Take a sniff and you'll know what I
mean. You need to lower the boiling temperature by lowering the
pressure. Move to Denver?
>I did not say Chile Head forum, I said chile pepper forum. There's a
>difference.
The point is it duplicates much of what goes on in the Chile-Heads
List. How can that NOT detract?
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Regards, Cameron.