Dehydrating Peppers, Peppers, and more Peppers

[ThunderDome]

Brad (mackbrad) sent me some Jalapeno salt for our Christmas exchange. This stuff was good! I had to give this a whirl for myself

Raw jalapenos






Jalapeno Powder. This stuff packed a PUNCH


Now I had to try to smoke some of these. This time I went (L-R) Habanero, Jalepeno, and Sweet Peppers
















Added the Smoked Jalepeno powder to the previous batch. You can see the color difference.


Habanero Powder


Sweet Pepper Powder


Here goes my version of Fishawns Jalepeno Seasoning/Salt

[ThunderDome]

The finished modified Fishawn Jalapeno Seasoning/Salt. Gave out some samples and people are loving it.


The star of the show so far as far as the raw powder was the Sweet Mini Peppers. Decided to make more of this. Decided to smoke them this time.


















During all this I thougt, why not make some smoked Green Chile Powder too






Just for overkill I decided to make even more of all of it. This time I smoked them @ 180 for about 3 hours














So...now I am working on a smoked Sweet Mini Pepper Green Chile powder, using the Habanero powder as the heat. Will keep you posted

[barkonbutts]

Oh yeah that is what I am talking about!!

[Doug S.]

If that doesn't get you one of those " Certified Pepper Head" thingys I don't know what will ???

[Richtee]

Uh ooo...Hey Smitty... look oot!

[SMOKE FREAK]

Tell me you arent picking peppers in Az. in January...
Cause thats gonna piss me off if ya are

[dsgarner06]

Hell Yeah! I'll bet that stuff is awesome! Nicely done!

[greg e]

Wow. Great job

[HawgHeaven]

Man, you a peppah freak!! Nice job! At the tail end of the garden last year, I dried all the Habanero and Jalepeno peppers that were left before the frost, then ground them up like you did... never tried the salt gig tho, and I didn't smoke them.

Awesome display of pepperage!

[BIGGLOPEZ]

Looking good my friend... Now I need a dehydrator...

[THE ICEMAN]

Looking good my friend... Now I need a dehydrator...

We're thinkin' alike Big G.

Nicely done Bill.

[Ozric]

Nice update to the version on your blog, Bill!

For what it's worth, while I was on TD's blog earlier today, I noticed this clear spice shaker (dredge) he was using and thought that I could use something like that for my different rubs and shakes. I got on Amazon, found a couple different ones, and ordered two of one type. About 5 minutes after making that order, I cancelled it. Why? Because I found a 6-pack of the exact same shaker on Amazon for $20 (they were $6 each!). And each of the 6 comes with 3 lids (fine, medium, large holes)!

[MichChef]

The last time I dehydrated that many peppers in the house I had to evacuate for the day with the windows open and I don't have a garage that I can put the dehydrator in. Maybe I'll run power out to my yard shed.

[HawgHeaven]

Looking good my friend... Now I need a dehydrator...

We're thinkin' alike Big G.

Nicely done Bill.

Can't go wrong with the Nesco Model FD-61... love it!

[Ozric]

Agree completely, HH! I have a similar model (Nesco Snackmaster Pro Food Dehydrator FD-75A) that I'm really happy with. It comes with 5 trays, but I added 4 more.

One thing I really like about it is the temps it achieves and the consistency of the temp throughout the dehydrator. A lot of the smaller countertop models don't get hot enough to do jerky. This unit claims 160°F. I measured the temp at the bottom, couple of places in the middle (of 9 trays) and at the top. Temps were statistically even, measuring 155° at the 160° setting.

Nice way to get started ($67) without paying a couple of hundred.