Heat of a Pepper without vegetable flavor?

[BDF]

Anyone know if there's a certain part of a jalapeno or habanero you can macerate with in order to get the heat without any of the flavor of the pepper itself? I have some peppers on hand and could like to add a bit of kick to my drinks with em if I could without changing the flavor profile or is capsaicin extract the only way to do this?

[Prairiepiss]

Boil the seeds. This will give you pretty close to pure capsaicin. All the heat not much if any flavor of the pepper itself.
You could also macerate the seeds in a neutral. And extract it that way.

Be very careful. This stuff won't be no joke. And could seriously hurt someone.

[BDF]

If I could do it by macerating in neutral, I take it I could put the seeds directly in the spirit I wish to spice up?

I'll try it on a small bit and see what happens.

[Spokerider]

Habernero is pretty much heat and no / little flavour.

[Halfbaked]

+ 1 on the seeds for heat and Habernero being at least 10x the heat. I have grown both and like the flavor but my habernaro were dangerous, seriously dangerous. I can eat store bought jalapenos 2 bites per pepper seeds and all. Fertilizer changes everything. I could not eat a pencil eraser size bites of Haberneros I grew without serious serious pain. It was like eating fire crackers. I really don't know if it this sounds like a good idea. Why do you want heat and no flavor. Leave some heads in it and some tails in it. If you do it let us know good or bad. Be careful!

[Spokerider]

A nice heat recipe is the Thai Terror one. Very nice indeed.

[holeinwalldistl]

Love to try some of my ghost peppers in a recipe

[corene1]

Love to try some of my ghost peppers in a recipe

Nope , you sure wouldn't want to try them in a spirit. I grow them and other seriously hot peppers, Trinidad Scorpions ,Naga Vipers, Marouga reds plus a few others . They are too hot . I soaked them in a jar of pretty clean , flavor wise, whiskey . 85% then strained it and cut to 40%. The burn up front is vicious then it keeps on building. If you want to try them I have a big bag of smoked dried peppers from this season. I even mailed some to George over at Las Vegas distillery and he said they are too hot also. I was going to make a drink called Pepper Shine. I guess if you like to sweat and have snot running out your nose these would be the ticket . Keep us posted if you try.. I would like to see if you have the same results as we did.

[corene1]

+ 1 on the seeds for heat and Habernero being at least 10x the heat. I have grown both and like the flavor but my habernaro were dangerous, seriously dangerous. I can eat store bought jalapenos 2 bites per pepper seeds and all. Fertilizer changes everything. I could not eat a pencil eraser size bites of Haberneros I grew without serious serious pain. It was like eating fire crackers. I really don't know if it this sounds like a good idea. Why do you want heat and no flavor. Leave some heads in it and some tails in it. If you do it let us know good or bad. Be careful!

Just for reference. A good Jalapeno is about 10,000 scoville units of heat
A good habanero can come close to 200,000 scoville units of heat.
Then some of the REALLY hot peppers can go as high as 1.5 million scoville units of heat. Marouga Red Or Carolina Reapers. Even the Trinidad Scorpion Butch Taylor strain is a million.
So if you want heat and not flavor it wouldn't take much to get all the heat you could handle.

[corene1]

+ 1 on the seeds for heat and Habernero being at least 10x the heat. I have grown both and like the flavor but my habernaro were dangerous, seriously dangerous. I can eat store bought jalapenos 2 bites per pepper seeds and all. Fertilizer changes everything. I could not eat a pencil eraser size bites of Haberneros I grew without serious serious pain. It was like eating fire crackers. I really don't know if it this sounds like a good idea. Why do you want heat and no flavor. Leave some heads in it and some tails in it. If you do it let us know good or bad. Be careful!

Just for reference. A good Jalapeno is about 10,000 scoville units of heat
A good habanero can come close to 200,000 scoville units of heat.
Then some of the REALLY hot peppers can go as high as 1.5 million scoville units of heat. Marouga Red Or Carolina Reapers. Even the Trinidad Scorpion Butch Taylor strain is a million.
So if you want heat and not flavor it wouldn't take much to get all the heat you could handle.

[holeinwalldistl]

We have a local hotdog stand who has a comparison eat 5 hot dogs in 5 mins covered in ghost peppers and scorpion peppers I am one of the few who have finished love the heat also grew the Carolina reapers this year loved them also would mostly do the pepper drink for a novelty though

[Bardstown Road]

I would just purchase pure cap. Extracting cap is extremely hard to do without getting a lot of flavor. Ghost peppers have a lot of flavor.

[Halfbaked]

I like spicy stuff but don't eat it for the burn. If it don't have taste I don't eat it. My habaneros were orange and it was a long time ago when I grew mine. They looked like 1-1.5 in orange bell peppers. I think my last name was Wus. Half Baked Wus. I feel like they were hot enough that I would have died if I had to eat 1 with nothing with it. If your habaneros are as hot as mine I would not let them in the house.