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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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More about dehydrating (article):

Dehydrating Jalapeño Peppers – How To Dry Jalapeños

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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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27 Comments

  1. I'm trying to find a way to dispose of a bag full of ceyenne pepper that sat around for so long, the pepper ate many little holes in the plastic bag. I can't dump it down the drain or toilet to maybe kill the good bacteria in the septic tank. Also, I wouldn't want to dump it on the ground for some innocent critter to come in contact with it and I don't want the birds at the dump to come into contact with it. Any good ideas out there on proper disposal?

  2. Also, if you're making flakes, powder or just planning to store whole dried chilis, a silica pack in the container will help with caking and allow you to store much longer.

  3. Washing your hands "a few times" after wearing gloves while touching any of the fruit you are talking about is silly. Were you still hiding in your house, afraid to go outside and be in contact with other human beings, when you made this video?

  4. Don’t you loose a lot of heat by removing the white membrane? I know the seeds themselves have no heat but the white membrane does. Could you shake / tease the seeds out after you dry them?

  5. Evidently there is still plenty of heat in the peppers after you remove the seeds/membrane, you still had a very hot chips. There are a lot of misconceptions out there that I am trying to sort my way through.

  6. Yet another awesome video. A question though. I've read that the leaves from the plants are very flavorful as well, but when I type into a search engine about dehydrating the leaves, all I find are how to dehydrate just the peppers. Any experience with dehydrating the leaves?

  7. We always make powder from all the leftover peppers from the garden we find when we pull the plants at the end of the season. We have one bottle we call Death Powder and we have been cursed by guest (who were warned) that applied too much to their food. I love it.

  8. I'd leave the innards in that's where the heat is, just sift out the unwanted seeds if you must.

  9. Place a zip bag over your blender when powdering peppers. They are heavy enough not to fly off and no holes for powder to escape into the air.

  10. i just cut up 5 ghost peppers. and licked my finger by accident. but it was kind of nice this year. last year it was pure agony.

  11. I love dried chilis and I think the best is Pemente de Espelet from the Basque region. Especially as a finishing seasoning with seafood. If you haven’t tried it you must.

  12. Gonna make me some chips, uh, (plain chips)😂… p.s when I make hot sauce, I don't wear gloves, but I oil my hands ! No hot bits n pieces 😅😅

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