[CH] Re: drying peppers
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:32:26 +0000
As has been mentioned here before, one technique for drying thick-walled
peppers is to freeze them first, thus bursting the cell walls. Then the
pods will lose their moisture more quickly when you dry them.
Here's one of three batches of red habs I dried in my oven last year:
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/alexsleaves/images/Hab_Oven.JPG
I washed them before I dried them; that took several rounds in the kitchen
sink. Then I smoothed sheets of heavy-duty foil across the oven racks,
using my fingers to make valleys between the rack wires. I laid the pods in
rows and set the oven to around 200F, just about as low as I could get it.
Then I gave them about four hours, on nice breezy autumn days when the fresh
air blew through the house and no one else was home with me.
Then, there were the batches I smoked...
- A
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