Goonhub
09-25-2017, 11:47 AM
I'll look to finish this up in the next couple of days. I'll leave mint chutney out for now, if that's okay, just because I like being able to draw a line under a unit of work. Feel free to put a slight cooling effect on mint, mint tea, and mint juleps.
Distilling into menthol is a cool idea (see what I did there?), I'd like to try to fairly fully flesh it out if we go that route (e.g. have some secondary reagents you can make from it). You should probably also be able to synthesize it via mint + ethanol or something (maybe at 50C to avoid it just happening in your body).
If you're looking to do the cooling thing, look into how cryostylane works. I'd put a lower bound on what temperature it can lower you to, experiment a bit to work out something sensible. It shouldn't be slowing you down (or certainly not much).
Distilling into menthol is a cool idea (see what I did there?), I'd like to try to fairly fully flesh it out if we go that route (e.g. have some secondary reagents you can make from it). You should probably also be able to synthesize it via mint + ethanol or something (maybe at 50C to avoid it just happening in your body).
If you're looking to do the cooling thing, look into how cryostylane works. I'd put a lower bound on what temperature it can lower you to, experiment a bit to work out something sensible. It shouldn't be slowing you down (or certainly not much).