>"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> === Dave Sacerdote davesas@tiac.net Resist or Serve. "I am so mighty, I do not have to kill you all." -- Flaming Carrot Visit Dave's New England Almanac: http://www.tiac.net/users/davesas