Yup, read the same thing about casein on a website, but can't remember where. He was in to chemistry and member of the ring of fire though. Come to think of it, might have read something about it at the firery foods site too, I think it was written by Dave DeWitt. Leif Denmark --- Deb deForest <deforest@selec.net> wrote: <snip> He said that it is the casein in milk that > reacts to > neutralize the capsaicin in chiles when you use > dairy as a > "fire extinguisher". > === __________________________________ Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. __________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com