On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:21:53 GMT, 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?

IOW, you're just finding out what everybody else has always known.
And it's not "much of the heat", it's *all* of the heat. The seeds
themselves are not hot. They are hot only because they are next to
the ribs/membranes. The peppers do not have pith.

-sw