Re: [CH] Food Safety Question
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:34:49 -0400
I wouldn't think there would be a problem unless you used the powder on
something that you intended to grill.
=Mark
At 05:01 PM 10/1/2004, Tom D Compton wrote:
>Here is a question for all the experts out there. I usually just lurk
>and learn, but this time I need some real help. Every fall I harvest all
>my hot peppers and smoke them for a few hours with hickory or mesquite
>chips. I finish the drying overnight in a food dehydrator and then grind
>the peppers along with garlic powder, cumin, and salt into a wonderful
>smoky chile powder.
>
>I screw a canning jar onto my blender blade assembly and grind the
>peppers right in the container. As the volume decreases, I keep adding
>dried peppers till all is ground and the jar is full. This year, almost
>at the end, when I unscrewed the blade to add a few more peppers, I found
>about a one inch chunk of the (rubber?) gasket missing. It must have
>been hooked under the blade and is presumably ground up in the pepper
>mixture. I now have nearly a pint of chile powder contaminated with
>whatever the gasket is made of. This represents this year's entire
>harvest, and I hate to throw it out. I'm sure the small piece of rubber
>will not noticeably affect the flavor, but I'm concerned about the
>safety. Is that gasket going to be toxic, or is it inert?
>
>I will greatly appreciate your reply.
>
>Tom