Comments on: What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers?

By: Zany Holidays Blogger

Zany Holidays Blogger — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:26:45 +0000

No wonder chili gets its own month in October…happy National Chili Month!

By: Frau

Frau — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:14:02 +0000

@ Darena – Birds can eat it because their tongues are different than mammalian tongues. They do not have the same pain receptors.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:56:19 +0000

@darena

ROFLLOL

By: darena

darena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:43:14 +0000

I don’t think that the fact that the spice repels microbes, but the birds can eat it freely, is an example of the elegance of revolution, but God has thought of everything. Our world was wisely created.

By: darena

darena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:42:19 +0000

I don’t think that the fact that the spice repels microbes, but the birds can eat it freely, is not an example of the elegance of revolution, but God has thought of everything. Our world was wisely created.

By: Byrd Brain

Byrd Brain — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:05:56 +0000

I thought it was pretty clear. Perhaps my brain is another example of the elegance of evolution.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:28:49 +0000

ted, it’s a five-page article. I couldn’t get the whole thing in a small post.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:16:49 +0000

Very unclear post.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:25:51 +0000

The lab next to mine when I was a grad student studied capsaicin. They found out that receptor for pain = receptor for heat (hotness of capsaicin).

By the way, that’s how Icy Hot, tiger balm and other creams work to dull the pain: by overwhelming the pain sensors with heat.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:02:16 +0000

Thanks to the intraweb, you can find now all sort of crazy sauces that will burn all the way down : http://www.chilliworld.com/FactFile/Scoville_Scale.asp
Some of them like Blair’s are really dangerous and when he makes them he wears a kind-of-hazmat suit!

And to know more about the Scoville unit :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale