[CH] test and hello
Mike Nestrud (pink@gehennom.net)
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:52:32 -0400
Haven't seen any traffic since I joined... thought I'd say hello.
I'm a fairly new chile person... I've fallen in love with the stuff over
the past coupla' years. I've also been doing a lot of research on the
TRPV1 receptor (the newly-discovered capsaicin receptor), specifically
how its activation affects different sensations in your mouth. There's
some indication that activation of TRPV1 may lower and/or raise the
threshold of activation for other taste receptors, and that salt
plays a large role in this process. Salt definitively lowers the
threshold of activation of TRPV1 itself, which any chile-head can
empirically test with a spoon full of your favorite hot sauce and some
salt. My research has led me to pose a few questions... is one's love
of chiles (and by the same receptor, anything acidic / pickled) nothing
more than a conditioned response to an endorphin high? Are there any
chile heads that hate acidic flavors?
Hopefully some of you have made it or are going to the chile festival
this weekend... I unfortunately have to work, but I also have the
fortune of a local farmstand that keeps a fair supply of Meadowview
Farms chiles on hand.
Take care,
-Mike
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Teaching Assistant | "The solar garlic starts
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