So yesterday I found something interesting on the internet. A recipe, of sorts. For distilling capsaicin. Well, being as it's me, I had to try it.

Step 1: The shopping trip. Picked up 16 Habanero peppers and a litre of 2-propanol (despite the recipe calling for ethanol).



Step 2: The thorough mixing. Pureed the peppers and alcohol together. My sister would kill me if she knew I'd used her blender for this. On the plus side, everything she makes with it for the next year will have a hint of spice.



Step 3: Posing for the camera. The instructions said to leave the mixture "overnight", so I figured I'd wait at least a few hours. In the meantime, I snapped a pretty picture of myself in my chemistry outfit.



Step 4: The reduction by boiling. Do this outside if at all possible. You have no idea how badly alcohol+habanero fumes can burn the eyes, lungs, etc. Well, unless you've ever breathed in pure bromine. Or pure chlorine for that matter. Both of which I have done. Getting close enough to take this picture was torture.



Step 5: Trying to get it to seperate into an oil layer. It never did, but whatever. Still looks cool; nice and red like a proper science experiment should be.



And, despite the fact that I didn't do the distillation properly to end up with pure capsaicin, the mixture I am left with is still quite potent (probably equivalent to military-grade pepper spray). My fingers are still spicy; I rubbed my eye accidentally today and boy did that hurt.

Now the question: what should I do with it?

11 words: Put it on candy and pass it around to little kids.

Eat it.

Shiny. Where'd you score the gas mask?

It's actually my dad's painter's mask that I found in the garage; dunno why he has it considering he never paints anything. But it certainly looks the part, eh?

Pour it in the punch bowl.

Thicken it with flour and dip candy in it.

Inject it into foods.

Rub it onto your genitals

Two words. Super Soaker.

I think the obvious suggestion, given your prowess Kyle, is to take a drop of it at a time in the eye until it has no effect whatsoever on you.

Then, once your tollerence is built up, you shout at a cop to spray you, whilst shouting as many profane things as possible... You'll want to preface that act by getting your blood alcohol content up above the legal limit to reduce your fine to drunk and disorderly.

What I like is how Kyle90 always adds pictures to his "today I did this adventure" threads.

Primate and Yecti are both on to something.

I am tempted to distill my own capsaicin now.

Put it in a distiller.

Probably because isopropylene is toxic to humans...

Same here.


The **** I could do with that...



I'd put it on people's car door handles.

Bottle of the K-Y Jelly...

Someone's mouse

back scratcher

the cat

light switch

pillow case

harden it into a candy-like substance and replace the throat losenges.

How about put these in envelopes and label them as "Échantillon de parfum."

By the way kyle90, how goes your death-ray?

I would put it in someone's body wash or shampoo, personally. . .

That's pretty cool, but if you want capsaicin, pepper spray is really cheap.

Terrorize your local law enforcement.

Rub it onto publicly used things like.. doorknobs, toilets, sink handles, etc.

HEY.

Thou should PM me this recipe!

Actually, I'll do one better: post it.

http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/chemistry_and_scoville_units.htm

At the bottom of the page.

Now everyone can make it! (As a side note, where would one obtain pure ethanol?)

Liquor store. Everclear is 95% ethanol, should be more than good enough.

I love how it says only a fool or a chemist would attempt this at the bottom.

Mauahahahahaha.

Mix it with buffalo sauce. Best wings EVER!

[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]Mix it with buffalo sauce. Best wings EVER![/QUOTE]


Or just do away with the buffalo sauce all together.

[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]Or just do away with the buffalo sauce all together.[/QUOTE]

Nah, you still need to get a hint of the proper buffalo wing flavor as you're getting your jaw blown away.

I demand you do this, Kyle.
http://www.fazed.org/video/?id=411

Okay. I'll do it tomorrow.

Yay! Put a picture of a hot woman at the back of the microwave too...and maybe a dinosaur sticker on the microwave. It'll be the definition of awesome.

Picture of hot woman... check

Dinosaur sticker.... check

Awesome...check

I really reccomend that you don't do anything. That is truly a horrible thing to do and not funny. Just imagine that it happen to you. Plus, people could take legal action agaisnt you.

Go away.

If any of you have ever been to a wing place and sports bar called Buffalo Wild Wings, let me point out that their Blazin' sauce is not far from actually being sprayed with pepper spray in the mouth. It's got that much capsaicin in it. This is coming from someone who has been sprayed in both the face AND in the junk with pepper spray. So...moral of the story: pepper spray is good wing sauce as long as you don't mind a horrific burning for many many minutes afterward.

I've been to Buffalo Wild Wings, and I've never ventured any where that high on the scale of hottness for their sauces. And now i'm really taking what you've said as a warning and not doing it at all.

Aw, c'mon, just order ONE and then just take a tiny tiny bite. Just so you know, because knowing is half the battle.

I'd be leary of using your distilled capsaicin on food. You used propanol and us human folk don' like that very much.