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The Hot Pepper forum is a done deal. It can be found at http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/pepper/ .

Cameron, I was just wanting a way to remove all the alcohol from the extract, but apparently I cannot without boiling away everything else, so I guess I'll just have to somehow tolerate orange hab flavored pga.
Thanks for the info.

Donnie Walls
Little Rock, AR

> 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?
> -- 
> ---
>                       Regards,               Cameron.

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