Re: [CH] habanero powder

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Food processing equipment can be expensive indeed.  Just depends on how
inovative you care to be ;-)

To make flake, I use a hardwood 2 x 4 & mash whole dried pods in a 5 gl
bucket.  Sort of like a primitive butter churn :-)  Not very expensive
or efficient but it works.  Screen to the size you like.  To make the
finer blends I use some commercial coffee grinders- the 100 lb table top
kinds.  The Hobarts weigh about 125 lbs it seems.  Cast iron from the
feel of them :-)  Ditting is the other brand- lighter weight but still
do a decent job.  They can be expensive new but I bought most of mine on
Ebay for between $150 - $250 each.  'Course they're useless for coffee
grinding for this almost moderate :-)

Since I've handed most of this processing off to CaJohn (another evil
corporate type ;-) I don't deal much with it at all anymore.  I'm also
not above buying some already that way provided I know the source.  An
example would be the Chimayo powder I promised I'd try to hunt up again
from some of my early contacts out in NM.

The equipment to handle fresh chiles is *much* MUCH more expensive!

-Jim C
Mild to Wild(R)

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