Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?

I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?

mkr5000 > wrote:

>Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?

Ground cayenne pepper disperses in (water-based) liquid quite well.
I do not think it actually dissolves.

Steve

mkr5000 wrote:
>
> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>
> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?

Use the same method you'd use to dissolve paper
in water.

mkr5000 wrote:
> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>
> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?


Add a little soap. HTH :-)

-Bob

Mark wrote:

>> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>>
>> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?
>
> Use the same method you'd use to dissolve paper in water.

Actually got me to laugh out loud with that one.

Bob

mkr5000 > wrote:
> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>
> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?

Alcohol.

On 12/24/2011 8:00 PM, gregz wrote:
> > wrote:
>> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>>
>> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?
>
> Alcohol.


Acetone.

<benzene... this is getting serious!>

gregz > wrote:
> mkr5000 > wrote:
>> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>>
>> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?
>
> Alcohol.

There are fats and oils that will also work.

Greg

On 12/24/2011 1:38 PM, mkr5000 wrote:
> Any trick to dissolving cayenne pepper in liquid?
>
> I've even tried a blender and boiling water. Maybe I should try some oil?

You can make a pepper oil by leaving some in a neutral oil for some time
(a week, I'd guess), and straining it through a coffee filter. It
probably wouldn't hurt to raise the temp of the oil near 200F once to
catalyze it a bit.

The oil takes on a beautiful red color.

--
Yours,
Dan S.