[CH] grinding habaneros
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:49:36 +0000
My mother gave me a blender for Christmas. So far, then only thing I have
used it for is peppers - once to make a sauce, and today to make hab powder.
Some of you may recall that at last year's Open Fields, I was handing out
sandwich bags of smoked and oven-roasted red habs. These were from the 2002
harvest. I still have more of these, and in an effort to clean my room,
I've decided to finally grind them into a powder.
This is masochism, plain and simple. But at least I'm smart enough not to
wipe my runny nose on these dust-contaminated sleeves...
I filled a used plastic seasoning jar with several ounces of powder. No
wonder this stuff is expensive, it takes a lot of work to produce it! Using
the blender instead of the grinder produces a dust with some flakes. The
smoked habs especially went to powder, while some of the roasted ones still
had a bit of leathery flexibility that produces flakes. I kept the blender
running until after I saw no more peices large enough to hop around in the
jar.
Coughing and sneezing, I remain your correspondent,
- A
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