Dave:I was watching a show on the Food Network about hot sauces. Dave of Dave’s Insanity Sauce was showing how he made his sauce and mentioned hot pepper extract. What is this? Many thanks for your help.Boyce.Boyce:Pepper extract is oleoresin capsicum, the concentrated oil containing high amounts of capsaicin. Hot peppers are dried and pelletized, then treated with hexane, which …
Peppers burning different parts of Tongue
Dave!Pyro-Man at Pyropeppers sent me to you with this question because he says that you are the "Pope of Peppers." We have noticed that some sauces are hot on the front of the tongue while others are hot on the back of the tongue. Pyroman says he thinks it’s got something to do with the kind of pepper involved. Can …
Smoking Peppers Hints
Dave, I have been smoking peppers for years (anything hot;) mixing them with some I have dehydrated and some dried onion and dried garlic then grinding them up in my wife’s blender and putting the end result in shakers. So far I have been doing carefully this in a charcoal smoker but this year I have almost 100 plants so …