How do you dry and flake peppers?

I've got a Tabasco pepper plant almost ready to harvest. I want to dry and flake them so I can use them when needed. Never done it. Oven/food processor?

Thanks.

 

Not worth the trouble. Just make hot sauce instead.......

 

And we know Cheech has one of those laying around.

 

But yeah, if you want to go that route just use a dehydrator or your oven and get them bone ass dry.

 

Ok see, I'm not spending money on some new fangled gizmo, and I don't want sauce. Just curious if putting them in the oven and running through a food processor would work. How long does it take to dry them?

 

a few ways to dry - put them on a sheet tray on a wire rack and let them dry in a dry sunny spot, put them in an oven on the lowest possible setting and dry them out that way, or use a dehydrator. I prefer the first method.

To crush them up, I typically use my food processor. Just keep pulsing it quickly until you get the grind you want. The seeds will break out before the skins are all broken up. If I have a large batch I try and separate them part way through processing so they don't get too broken up. I've tried using an old coffee grinder that I use to grind spices and it doesn't handle the skin very well.

I'm just starting to get peppers ripening on my plants. So far I've got about a gallon of them. I should end up with somewhere around 10 gallons of peppers that I'll mainly make hot sauce with but dry and crush some too.

 

If you don't have a dehydrator check the Goodwill store before you buy one. A lot of people
buy them, use them one or two times and then they collect dust so they take them to Goodwill
or someplace similar. I found one for $5 there.

 

Cool. Sounds like a plan.

 

i dry my hops in the oven on the "keep warm" setting

making sure to flip them over every now and then.

 

Mmmmmhmmmmm.... At least you're being straight with us about what taxonomy family the plant matter that you're drying belongs to...

 

The taxonomy family of plant you are referring to should never be dried in an Oven

 

I have a thai chili plant hanging right now to make dust out of. I dry them for a ling ass time. Maybe 6 months or more. Then just put them in a coffee grinder and do it to it. Make sure to enjoy the aroma when you transfer from the grinder to a jar. Breathe deep.

 

I saw that. Got those too. Air dry for a week in the shop and then put in mason jars. They get shaken and opened once a day for an hour to cure. Then ENJOY!

 

Dry in brown paper bags before mason jars.

 

for real, i have tettnang hops, they are best dried at 80C for 2 h

 

when i was younger, there was a myth going around to bury the buds in a bag for a while to have them grow mold on them , which should intensify them.

never tried it, but maybe that's what Richie is shooting for.

 

Sweet, let's see who can out beer snob the other.

 

Your friends confused cannabis with mushrooms

Hang dry until the outside is crispy/flaky, then put into brown paper bags. The water pressure will normalize after about a week (burping daily). Then put into mason jars and burp daily for the first week, then weekly after that. After three months of curing:

 

i'm brewing with DME and not full grain, so my starting position sucks when it comes to snobriety ...