Grinding dried chiles
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Comments (3)Small scale grinding can be done with simple things like a coffee grinder (blender types). Polsing helps to break up some stuff better. If your grinding hard things like cinnamon stick, be prepared to replace the grinder if the container is plastic. Hard stuff like cinnamon will abraid the plastic and make it frost up. Some stuff actually needs to be ground like on a microplane. If you have an herb store somewhere near you, ask them. Penzeys has several stores around and some do custom grinding too. If its a grain type herb, a mill like that used to grind grains for flour will work with some herbs ....See MoreGrow chile de Arbol from dried chili seeds?
Comments (5)Are you thinking of the dried chilis? I've grown seed from several of them. De Arbol as I remember took a very long time to germinate. I thougt it was dead seed but didn't get the trays dumped out and then....there they were. Waited several weeks and then several sprouted within a few days of each other. Some other varieties germinated in a week, others took long, and some never grew. They were probably dried at hotter temps, I'm guessing. I'd try soaking the seed from dried peppers 12 hours in lukewarm water before planting. Maybe that would give them a quicker start than mine which were not soaked. I'd sow them soon. You should be able to find enough inside light to keep them alive til plant out time. And the plants can use the extra growing time....seems to take forever for some chilis to ripen. Good luck. It's fun to experiment with non-seed packet seeds. Just be sure you have a backup plan if yours do not grow. You wouldn't want to go all summer without any pepper plants!...See MoreSaving seed from commercial dried chiles
Comments (6)I have successfully harvested viable seed from several different fresh peppers but I have never tried from a dried pepper. But I would be pretty confident that it would work as long as the pepper wasn't dried at a really high temp. But the only way to know for sure is to do what several others suggested and that is plant some of them and see. You could even use the paper towel in a baggie method to make it even more simple. Good luck and let us know how it works out. Bruce...See MoreChile Powder Question
Comments (5)Well, you have to dry out your chiles somehow in order to make powder. There are a few options. You can dry them in the sun, in a dehydrator, in an oven on low heat, or cook or smoke them in some way, but usually if you cook them, you still need to get the rest of the water out by another method. Since you are in Florida, you might have a hard time drying chiles in the sun, especially medium to thick-walled chiles, because of high humidity. Your chiles would spoil before they dried. Some people have posted here about how they "juiced" their chiles and turned the leftover mush into powder. I suppose you could grind them to get the mush, and then dry out the mush and then grind it again to get the powder....See Morefoodonastump
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