[masraum]

Originally Posted by cabmando

A guy who worked at Lakeview Farms once gave me a small vial of something they added to salsa to make it hot. He gave it to me with a warning, "if you're going to sample it just dip a toothpick in and put that on your tongue." I smelled the stuff and thought this isn't hot! THANKFULLY I took his advice and used a toothpick. I have NEVER experienced anything this intensely hot. There was no flavor, just pure heat. After downing a considerable amount of milk to cool my tongue off, I wrapped the vial in aluminum foil, placed it in a ziplock bag and put it in the garbage. That stuff was dangerous.

I'm guessing it was distilled down to just capsaicin or maybe even just the hot constituent of casaicin. Interesting.