Dehydrating Peppers and Making Pepper Powder + Spicy Chips - Pepper Geek

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In this video, we share how to dehydrate peppers using a dehydrator. If you don't have a dehydrator, you can use basically the same method, but in your oven or toaster oven. For thin peppers, you can even hang them to air-dry. Drying peppers is a super easy way to preserve for harvests for later use, or for a tasty cayenne powder replacement!

We also use our fresh hot pepper powder to make a batch of spicy homemade chips. These are easy to make using flour tortillas, olive oil, and some herbs and spices. They came out great!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & about dehydrating peppers
1:18 The peppers
2:03 About dehydrators
3:49 Prepping the peppers
7:10 Begin dehydrating
8:09 Grinding peppers into powder
9:14 End result spicy pepper powder!
9:42 Making homemade spicy chips
10:51 Tasting spicy chips

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[InsidetheCasino]

So I cut up my Carolina Reapers tonight into rings, and left the seeds in. Ground them in a coffee grinder, and the seeds ground to a powder as well. And, YES, I didn’t leave the lid on long enough, and got me a nice coughing fit.
One tip for washing out your grinder attachments, do NOT spray them off. Place them directly into soapy hot water. The spraying will cause the dust to get into the air. Learned the hard way on that.

[r.awilliams]

Along about 1996 I grew a few fatalli plants and decided to make some powder. Dried some peppers in the oven, at which there were uneasy murmurings at the other end of the house, where She Who Must Not Be Annoyed was located. I then popped a few dried peppers into the coffee grinder, gave them a good long whirl, and opened the lid for a sniff.

She Etc. came into the kitchen at a run to find out what was making that weird whooping noise and ran right into the mushroom cloud, promptly joining me on the floor to make higher-pitched weird whooping noises. This went on for ten minutes or so, at which point I could distinguish words. Bad words. Many bad words. Domestic life was a trifle strained for a while after that little episode.🙄

[trappenweisseguy]

I have found that popsicle sticks, particularly the ones that are a wide paddle shape, work great at getting the seeds out. A pair of cranked neck tweezers also works well to literally pick them out.

[nunyabisnass]

If you're annoyed by the powder caking over time, you can buy food grade desicant packs like you often find in jerky bags and other foods. Maybe you could also use a few grains of rice which is an old technique to keep the salt in the shaker from clumping.

[justicefourcats]

I just made a chilli powder that's a mix of orange habaneros, aji lemon/lemon drop, and ghost peppers. Smells amazing. Tried the tiniest amount, and my tongue is going to fall off. Thanks for the help!

[ashleighnelson]

I just did a huge batch of cayenne peppers and made crushed red pepper flakes. Next time I want to do cayenne powder as well, so this is very helpful! Thanks 😎👍

[Ottawajames]

I've used a few grains of uncooked rice to help control caking.

[LazyGardenGamer]

As a chef its always fun to watch how the general masses take the seeds out of peppers.

That being said, it was actually helpful for the tip on placing them skin side down in the dehydrator, i wouldnt have thought twice about which side.

Cheers for the temperature guide and the tip!

I'll leave a quick chili lime recipe that I've used on my own chips in the past.

2 tbsp dehydrated chili powder (I use habaneros or cayenne depending on how spicy I'm craving)
1 tbsp dehydrated lime powder (slice limes as thin as you can, dehydrate for roughly 30 hours at 68°C, then grind)
Pinch of salt

Easily one of the best, and simplest dry rubs I've ever put together ;)

[fabianperson]

Thanks for translating US units to SI units <3

[raybaker]

I am lucky enough to have a huge dehydrator. My son and I this year have made 3 different types of chili powder. We dried the serranos and super cayannes he grew. I also bought a pound of Hatch Chilis from the store and dried then. Saved seeds and now have hatch chilis sprouted in grow tent. I mixed a batch of the 3 to make a pot of chili. The flavor was great. Sweet at first then a slight bite. Nothing that burned but good. The outdoor grinding is good advise. The dust will cause coughing fits. We have all 3 mixed into a rub for a prime rib roast at thanksgiving.

[paulie]

I constantly thread new Cayennes onto a fishing line across my kitchen window-dry ones off the other end.In these covid times I started wearing a mask when grinding!✌🏻🌱🤘🏻🤧😷

[aitqhjofr]

I bought some garlic salt seasoning and thought it needed something extra. After watching this, I finally knew what to do with my frozen chili peppers 🌶 and made some chili powder. I mixed it in with my garlic seasoning and it tastes so much better! Lucky I came across this video, I never would’ve thought to try it 👍

[priayief]

Interesting and informative video.

Couple of tips: When I started dehydrating and grinding my peppers for storage, I notice the ground pepper would "cake" a little bit. It's a little more work but if you sieve your ground peppers then re-dehydrate them, it stops the caking. When you do this, you should use parchment paper on your Excalibur or (recommended) purchase specialized sheet trays for dehydrating powders. A word of caution: don't open the door on your dehydrator until you turn it off first.

And for those wanting to clean their grinders after use: grind up a handful of rice after grinding your peppers.

[HamCubes]

I bought a tomato corer from webstaurant for ~50¢ and have found it is an invaluable tool for prepping peppers. It's great for scooping seeds and removing the placenta especially.

Prior to cutting, rolling peppers under light pressure between your hands or gently on your cutting board can really help to release the seeds.

Thank you for the info on dehydrators. I am relieved to learn that a convection oven can yield decent results! I don't want any more small appliances!

Placing cold pizza stones or even clean bricks wrapped in foil in the oven might help to draw the oven heat away from drying peppers for the length of time they take to heat up. After they have heated up, they would compound, not reduce, the heat issue *Though as with all my hare-brained schemes, it would require testing first.

I would choose an oven-safe cooling rack that is the worst at conducting heat. Or even a silicone-coated wire cooling rack that's safe under ~400*F/200*C.

[synthesizerneil]

I'm a simple man. I see a pepper geek video, I watch and thumbs up

[kccarl]

I've been doing this for years. Works great.

[Oorlich]

What timing. I was looking into ways of doing this earlier this morning.

[tbabubba]

Breathing in the fire is just part of the fun. Especially in you don't remove the seeds and placenta from your super hots. Good video, I think some people don't realize that making pepper powder is an option.

[carlosvalentin]

Thanks for the videos. I used my air fryer to dehydrate my peppers. It's one of the rectangular ones with many settings, including dehydrate. Works like a charm, I do it outdoors.

[mathematicall]

The welches Pokémon glass 😮 I had those when I was a kid, pure nostalgia