RE: [CH] Hunan Compost
Parkhurst, Scott Contractor (PARKHURS@LEAVENWORTH.ARMY.MIL)
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:59:53 -0000
>If pods are placed on compost pile, What
>are the odds that the heat will dissipate
>while rotting down ? Had some that were
>picked green and rotted before ripening.
Last century I tossed some unripe pods
on the brush pile and the heat did not dissipate
after they ripened/sat. One of the neighbor
kids found out the hard way wiping her nose
(no tissue, of course) after handling the
"pretty red pepper".
It wasn't a compost pile, generating heat
as a part of the decomposition process, but they
were rotting down. I doubt that a normal heap
would generate high enough temps to break down
the capsaicinoids.
Scott... Happy new millenium... KCK