Chilli Peppers - advice please

[Tiskets]

Hello,

Could anyone offer advice on the best way to dry chilli peppers and should I leave them all to go red: At the moment some have turned red whilst others are still a nice shade yellow verging on orange. It's the first time I have grown any and never realised what a love plant it is simply to look at.

Thank you.

[deltadelta48]

Should be able to dry them. After all you can do it for herbs (hanging or drying in oven), and tomatoes, why not peppers? I have seen them dried in wreaths too. Did you try a big gardening site? They might be able to tell you how to do it?

[Tiskets]

Thank you very much. Yup, I do dry herbs but as peppers have more flesh, so to speak, I wondered if there was a special way. I spent a short time looking on t'internet, but decided to ask on here because someone might have a really good personal way of doing the job.

I've done apple rings with some of the apples I've 'scrumped' (as per an earlier thread about them going all over the oven!). I might try one of the peppers in the oven on a low heat and see what happens. Although I had better not be on the boards so it doesn't end up like a crisp. Mmmmm chillied burnt crisps, there's an idea!

Gillx

[Tiskets]

PS

I have just read the Telegraph Gardening section which I hadn't thrown away because I hadn't had time to read it and, lo and behold, there was a 'things to do' article about drying chillies. Isn't that odd. So I am now going to busily string my chilli pods.

Talk about 'fate' and it being a small world!

[levesterurlv]

Chillies are fun! but I have graduated to Naga Jolokia, chilies a not hot enough taste like bell pepper to me. I love Salsa and you can not make True Hot Salsa without Jolokia. If you would like a sample dried pepper let me know, they are not to hard to grow if you have male and females.

I am trying to think of a market for these, not many people now about them yet!

levesterurlv

[caramia64]

Hello,

Could anyone offer advice on the best way to dry chilli peppers and should I leave them all to go red: At the moment some have turned red whilst others are still a nice shade yellow verging on orange. It's the first time I have grown any and never realised what a love plant it is simply to look at.

Thank you.

Hi we too have grown chillies this year for first time and they are a gorgeous plant to look at when full of fruit! I too wondered what to do with them as its time to empty greenhouse!

[HerMajesty]

I always love the Spanish and Mexican way of stringing them by the stem together into a ristra and hanging it in your kitchen. They dry naturally.......well, at least in places with lower humidity.

[HerMajesty]

Or, just chop them up and frees in baggies.........shake out when you want some. Actually best to freeze on a cookie sheet to keep them separate, then bag up.

[caramia64]

Or, just chop them up and frees in baggies.........shake out when you want some. Actually best to freeze on a cookie sheet to keep them separate, then bag up.

TBH that sounds like best option for me, would perhaps use them more this way rather than dried