is pepper raw?

Question

Liike salt and pepper pepper

Answer 1

Well, yes... sort've. It's dried pepper berries.

Both white and black peppercorns come from the same plant; they're the berries of pepper nigrum, the pepper tree.

Black pepper is harvested while the berries have just turned red, then fermented briefly and laid out in the sun to dry.

The berries turn black in the drying process.

White pepper is soaked shortly after being picked, so only the white seed remains. Then it is dried as well.

So there you have it. But I'm not quite sure where pink peppercorns come from.... hmmmm!

Answer 2

Pepper, raw, is green. Black pepper is produced from the still-green unripe berries of the pepper plant. The berries are cooked briefly in hot water, both to clean them and to prepare them for drying. The heat ruptures cell walls in the fruit, speeding the work of browning enzymes during drying. The berries are dried in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the fruit around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer around the seed. Once dried, the fruits are called black peppercorns.

White pepper consists of the seed only, with the fruit removed. This is usually accomplished by allowing fully ripe berries to soak in water for about a week, during which time the flesh of the fruit softens and decomposes. Rubbing then removes what remains of the fruit, and the naked seed is dried. Alternative processes are used for removing the outer fruit from the seed, including removal of the outer layer from black pepper produced from unripe berries.

Answer 3

If it's not cooked then it's raw !!!!!!
Until you cook with pepper it is the product of raw peppercorns and salt is aways raw ......... sea salt is exactly what it says it is and garlic pepper is .......... yep uncooked pepper with uncooked garlic.
Both make for excellent additions to sauces and steaks.

Answer 4

Black pepper is cured in the sun so it is raw. I saw it on one of the cooking shows. Maybe In Search Of.

Answer 5

yes... it's dried "raw" peppercorns.

Roasting the peppercorns before packing will cause some of the volatile oils (the flavor) to "evaporate".

Answer 6

Dried or sometimes pickled.