Drying Chillies.

[Paulus]

I have a bumper crop of Chillies and need to know how to dry them. Any thoughts?

 

[accountantpete]

My traditional attempts have always met with failure - am going to try the oven this year.

 

[User169]

Salting them is an alternative for preservation purposes.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Salting them is an alternative for preservation purposes.

I bung mine in the freezer.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I've pickled a load of mine.

 

[Red Light]

Get yourself a fruit dryer. Useful for lots of other stuff such as fruit too.

 

[mickle]

My mate used to hang the whole plant upside down from the ceiling of his kitchen. Seemed to work pretty well.

 

[accountantpete]

Get yourself a fruit dryer. Useful for lots of other stuff such as fruit too.

Sounds like fun!


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[vernon]

I've pickled a load of mine.

And very tasty they are too!

 

[DougieAB]

I find it best to freeze the long thin chillies and dry anything larger. Also they are very easy to chop straight from the freezer.

 

[campagman]

I just take mine into work. The air conditioning does a good job.

 

[Red Light]

Do the (relatively) cheapo ones work well? I've considered getting one but the ones I've seen have always been a lot dearer than that, and that, plus the need to store the thing somewhere when not being used, really put me off. I'd consider one at that price-ish if it worked well.

There's nothing expensive in them. Just a small heater, a fan to move the air over the fruit/peppers and a load of stackable fruit holders. We use ours a lot and have done for years. It was just a cheapie although we did get it from Switzerland before they became available over here.

 

[zacklaws]

I just ground all my chillies up as they are off the plant in my grinder I use for fishing, stuck them in an airtight jar and covered them in olive oil. Don't know what will happen but there is recipes online for doing it this way or similar.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

We hang bird eye chillis on a thread, they've been there a few years now, very useful they are too!

Do you specifically want dried chillies for a recipe or are you storing your own crop? If you just want to buy some my mate 'ere sells dried chillies.