Drying my cayenne pepper harvest

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Drying my cayenne pepper harvest

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Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:14 am

I had a very good year for cayenne peppers. One plant produced a ton of peppers. Currently hung up to dry. Will probably make hot pepper flakes from them. Need to search for tips on how to do this. Guessing that you just put them in a food processor.

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Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:58 am

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Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:17 pm

I do my crushed red pepper flakes in my molcajete, just crushing down on very dry peppers (make sure they are very dry, so they are brittle - that wouldn't happen without a dehydrator in my humidity!), and watching until most are crushed enough, then I dump them in a bowl, pulling out any pieces too large, and grind them up separately. This way, I don't get much powder, like I would get if I did them until all of the flakes are small enough, or if I did it in the food processor.

I also do this on my deck, with the breeze blowing the dust away! :lol:
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Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:06 pm

I dried my cayennes over a 2 1/2 days in 90 plus degree heat, full sun outside on 160 degree copper sheet. Not going to happen in Massachusetts in late October. I agree they need to be brittle. I shook out most of the seeds out of the dried, broken and brittle peppers, just because I don’t like the seeds all that much.
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Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:17 pm

karstopography wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:06 pm Not going to happen in Massachusetts in late October..
It's been cold and wet here so I decided to bring them indoors. Currently hanging from a cat tower that the cat never uses. Indoor temp is about 70 so it'll have to do.

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Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:27 pm

The cat will have a bit of a shock of it gets bored.....
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