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How to extract Capsaicinoids from Peppers at Home

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How to extract Capsaicinoids from Peppers at Home

534,540 views October 25, 2014 5:15

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If you plan on eating your final product, you should buy high concentration (95%+) ethanol from the liqueur store. Using acetone is likely okay, but you never really know what contaminants there are in it.

The followup to this video will be showing how the extract can be used to make some extremely potent pepper spray.

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NileRed published this 5:15 video tutorial on October 25, 2014. It has been watched 534,540 times on YouTube.

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  • Google Answers: Extracting capsaicin from peppers answers.google.com

    Hi Waynesimonsen, You probably *COULD* extract the capsaicin from peppers at home, if you had all the equipment to do it safely, but I don?t recommend it. Read the following: "Pure capsaicin is so powerful that chemists…

  • How to Make Pure Capsaicin | Sciencing sciencing.com

    It is also the active ingredient in pepper spray and bear spray, both of which people used in self defense. While you cannot extract totally pure capsaicin at home, with a few short steps and some basic supplies, it is…

  • How to extract Capsaicinoids from Chili Peppers at Home ... reddit.com

    commercially, capsaicinoids and capsanthans are extracted using hexanes and then evaporated using a custom made thin film evaporator. The crude residue is then centrifuged to remove the fats and lipids, which yields the…

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