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Originally Posted by Jaglavak
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Originally Posted by Solfy
Do you have a soxhlet extractor lying around?
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Homie version; two stew pots and a bag of ice. Dump your booze in the smaller pot, and then in go your peppers in a colander with a coffee filter. Put the lid on upside down and dump some ice cubes in it. Set the small pot on spacers inside the big one with water as a double boiler. A thermometer is handy but not essential.
In a well ventilated and expendible area, gently warm the double boiler until the booze is just simmering. I would suggest an electric hob. If you smell alcohol, turn down the heat. Keep adding ice cubes to the lid. No more than an hour of that should wash out all the hot stuff you're going to get. |
Many asphalt plants have something like that in their QC/QA lab. I've used one many times. They use much more... uhh... Boomy solvents (benzine, xylene, etc...) than ethanol. Much more safely than your home-made version.