i want to air dry them! when i do that thing where put tie them together and let them hang to dry. will they lose any of there hotness? and i am looking for a way to dry them so i can crush them into a powder. how would i do that, i still want them to have there hot. air drying
2007-07-19 08:10:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
just air dry them on a rack... It will take a week.
Also, you can set them in a sunny location.
Alton Brown (Good Eats) uses a box fan with a filter to speed up the drying process.
I don't think you'll lose too much heat since the hotness is an oily substance and dehyrating is mainly about evaporating water.
2007-07-19 08:14:16 · answer #1 · answered by Dave C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a former chef and having con e this, first get enough peppers to dry, with a small knife or needle poke some holes in the peppers, around 4-6, up and down the outside.
If yo want to do them quickly, spread them on a couple of baking trays, put them in you oven at the lowest heat setting 150-200, for 1-3 hours, after that turn off the heat, and open the door, let them sit there overnight.
Check them the next day, if your going out for the day, set it up again, and give them another day or two like that, I do this with serrano peppers and the red finger type.
Drying peppers does not effect the heat, in fact they can be hotter as there oils and moisture is removed, the heat comes from the seeds and veins inside, and the smaller the pepper the hotter, like the small Thai bird chilis or habeneros.
2007-07-19 10:28:13 · answer #2 · answered by The Unknown Chef 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drying peppers to make powder is particularly consumer-friendly. I make lots of powder each and every season. do away with the stems from the peppers and place them on a cord rack interior an oven set to 2 hundred tiers and enable them to dry interior the oven 24 to seventy two hours. then pulverize into powder. what ever you do depart the seeds intact dont do away with them in case you do you unfastened the flavor and that they dont dry nicely.
2017-01-21 10:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by roybal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have tried just leaving them out in the kitchen & often have trouble with them molding. I have seen shows on Hatch, NM chile capitol of the world & they dry them on the roofs of buildings & hang them in bunches to dry. I too have seen Alton Brown use his box fan/furnace filter method & would undoubtedly work well. Food dehydrators would probably be great & even low heat in oven could be used too.
2007-07-19 08:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by lamdeveg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what i do is I just leave mine out and their it will dry and freeze them and believe it's still HOT!
2007-07-19 08:16:42 · answer #5 · answered by Stanley the Westie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋