Too bad the stuff’s so expensive, I’d love to try some.
Coupla things:
First, according to Wiki, Pure capsaicin is a white crystalline powder with a potency of 16,000,000 Scoville units. That’d make it pretty tough to dissolve it into a sauce and maintain 16,000,000 Scoville units.
Second, according to this incredibly annoying MSDS, capsaicin is lipophilic, not soluble in water, but soluble in Acetone, Methanol & Chloroform; probably ethanol as well. If you grow your own Habaneros, you could probably extract the capsaicin with Everclear, and then crystallize it out, pure, by adding a bit of water, and warming off the ethanol. The resultant death sauce would be a lot cheaper than $249.95 store brand, and you’d get to tell your victims that you made it yourself.
Wow! We hit the MSDS in only the second post! Face shields are next, I presume…
(You’re right. That is an unusually-annoying MSDS. What were they thinking???)
Somebody bring me a little glass of milk. I’m feeling the heat just reading about it.
Harimad-sol, spice wuss
I think I’ll try this, come fall. Face shields are a must!
“Ze goggles: zey do nothink!”
It seems to make a big deal out of nothing. To my understanding, huigh purity capsasian has always been availible for research purposes in bulk at rather moderate prices. What your paying for in a hot sauce is the stuff other than the capsasian.
Tuckerfan
I see no reason for you to stoop to utilizing lupine epithets.
Harumph !!! 
OK, I’ll admit being out of the loop. What’s MSDS mean?
Material Safety Data Sheet. Wikipedia Link
That stuff would burn a path directly through your body.
Yeah buddy, it’s time to start planning a nice pot o’ chili for upcoming Dopefests. If it doesn’t clear your sinuses and make you sweat, it’s no darn good.
Make sure you use the Guatemalan Insanity Peppers!
I’ll bring the candles.
The hell?
“A long time ago, in a laboratory far, far away…”
Does anyone have a link to the thread that started the phrase “wolf ass”? I’ve tried advanced search, with various combos of words, and so far have had no luck. The title started with a howl(sp?) and said somthing like “I have a serious case of wolf ass” Don’t remember who posted the OP, about eating too many spicy snack foods.
I’ve seen some posts by Guinastasia in which she talks about “wolf-ass”, IIRC.
Well, maybe the OP I mentioned didn’t start the phrase, although it’s been a couple of years, I’m sure.
But for all my searched I haven’t found it. The closest I can come in memory is
“Ah-woooo! I have a serious case of wolf ass!” And the OP, a guy, posted about the after effects of eating a bunch of hot pepper snack foods.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Sorry, but my philosophy on spices is that I only want it to burn on the way in.
dotchan, another wuss
I prefer “Ring of Fire”.
And it burns, burns, burns…