In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> There was a recipe in r.f.cooking today using jalapenos where we were
> instructed to remove the seeds. That might achieve a particular level of
> hotness but I wonder if people realize that much of the heat is
> contained in the internal pith and ribs?

I always thought that when a recipe called for deseeding, that meant to
remove everything except the flesh.

Not that the fresh jalapenos I've bought the last few years have much
heat, anyway.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA