I'd say "Go for it." You either have a lot more patience or many more dehydrators than I do, but I have enjoyed making powders from my home-grown chiles and the ones I harvest at Open Fields. I use different ones for different things - ground Thai for pizza, ground habanero for chili, and so on. You'd have a chile for every chili. Jose Cisneros wrote: > I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to attempt to make chile powders from > each and every chile that I grow. Were I to grow enough to dry and > grind. (or buy) > I know that in some cases the drying might be problematic but there have been > some that I have toyed with that deserved investigation. A sort of > idiocentric dried > chile powder pantry based on what I grow or buy and grind my own damned self. > Two that come to mind are Fatalii and Fresno. > Or maybe Lemon Drop. > Some of the Aji's. > Might be cool. > A palette of dried pepper. > Mixed with the fresh of course. > > > jOe > >