[CH] A question about freezing peppers before drying them
Tom Greaves (tomg@airmail.net)
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:28:19 -0500
With all the 100 degree days in Dallas, I'm getting no pepper set.
Thousands of blossoms, but nothing setting...except for the Tabasco's. My
one plant has hundreds of peppers in all stages of growth. They get ripe
and then fall off. So this morning, I harvested about 100 ripe ones and put
them in the dehydrator. They took up about half of one of the 5 trays in
the dehydrator. Not very cost effective.
So, I was wondering if I could harvest every few days and then freeze them
and then when I get a big enough batch, go ahead and defrost and dehydrate.
Has anyoine had experience with this?
When I saw the video about the making of Tabasco sauce, I couldn't forget
the comment about the pepper pickers carrying a color card showing the color
of a ripe Tabasco. The flavor of a perfectly ripe Tabasco must be better
than any other stage. That is what I want for My "Perfume Pepper Powder"
that I hope to make this fall. I have most of the peppers in big pots, so I
expect to be harvesting well into the winter.
Tom Greaves