RE: [CH] Dried Chile info
Mudpuppy (mudpuppy@hisurfer.net)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:11:34 -0500
Myron where do you live? I know around here where I live there are only
chiles in the Super Wal-Marts (the ones with grocery stores) and I have
looked and asked the sales people and they were not much help. I have seen
the ancho chiles but I am looking for something with a little more heat.
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I hope that life is not a big joke because
I don't get it.
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OK...I have seen large bags of ancho chiles....and today I saw a large
bag of Japanese (like cayennes) chiles.
Myron
>
> there are definitely Wal-Mart's but the only chiles that I have found are
in
> 1/4 oz bags. I want to buy a pounds of about 5 or 6 different chiles.
>
> I have seen bags of dried chiles in the produce depts. of Wal Mart
> Supercenters. Perhaps there's one of those near you.
>
> Myron
>
> >
> > There are no Mexican stores within 100 miles of me that I am aware of.
> When
> > I was in California they were all over. I bought 3 oz bags of chile de
> arbol
> > for 1.29. I used up the pequins but I know that they were not a whole
lot
> > more. I am lucky that my sister works in a grocery store here in town
and
> > they like her so the produce guy said that he would look into prices for
> > bulk chiles for me. But he said he could probably only by habs and it
> would
> > be in 3 or 5 pound quantintys. I can probably afford that. But I do want
a
> > mixture so I am still looking. I know there are cheap dried chiles out
> there
> > I just ain't found them. I used to grow my own but the dirt in my yard
> sucks
> > and I have mainly rocks so it is just easier to buy dried already.
> > Steve sent me a link to his page so I think I will buy some from there
> > because his prices beat anything I have found elsewhere but I sure did
get
> > spoiled out west. Thank You to all who responded
> >
> >
> > Hi Rick,
> >
> > When I grow up I want to have a dried chile web-store =^]
> >
> > Are there no "Mexican" stores in your area? That's where I'd look.
> > They may not speak English too well, but the dollar is still the
> > universal language of commerce. =^] There are some Mexi-stores here in
> > NW Indiana, but I am amazed at how many have sprung up in the country
> > side of Indiana in the last 10 years. I've seen 'em in small towns
> > between here and Indy.
> >
> > If you can't find any, e- me back! I'll see what prices are. I know I
> > have seen "Chile de arbol" similar to Tabasco, and chile pequin a/k/a
> > tepins... I may be able to find others you want, like habs and cayennes.
> >
> > Hasta la lista,
> >
> > Jesse G.
> > CH#1200
> >
> > Mudpuppy wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi my name is Rick Masters and I was on this list a long time ago and
> then
> > I
> > > moved several times and changed providers and some how got off of the
> > list.
> > > I live in New Florence, PA which is not exactly the Chile capital of
the
> > > world (although I did go to Hatch NM when I was on vacation and got
the
> > > t-shirt)
> > > I am writing because I have several questions that I hope some one can
> > help
> > > me with.
> > > First is the Chile head page down? I can not seem to get onto it or
the
> > > archives. I found the link from Marks page to resub and that is how I
> got
> > > here. (Mark I see you don't run with scissors anymore ;-) )
> > > My other question is does anyone know of any cheap mail order
companies
> > > where I can buy some dried chiles at? My local store here wants 3
bucks
> > for
> > > .25 oz of dried habs and they don't have any other type of dried hot
> > chiles
> > > at all. I would like to buy about 1 lb of dried habs, tepins, Tabasco,
> and
> > > cayenne's. I found one place on line that wants 10 bucks a pound but
you
> > > have to buy 25 pounds at a time. I would pay 50 for 4 pounds of
peppers
> > but
> > > I can't buy 250 bucks worth of just one kind.
> > > So if anyone could help me I would appreciate it. Thanks
> > >