Sweet Banana Peppers Ready To Harvest???

macsnax

macsnax

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Owlett said:
Oh! If you want to dry a pepper leave it on the plant until they are completely mature. In most cases that's after they change to their final color. Yellow peppers generally turn purple, green ones turn red. But not always. Then you can just run a string through the stem, chain them all together and hang them in a dry dark place with good airflow until shriveled and crisp. They store forever like that. Heck, I had a bag of dried chillies my aunt gave me for literally over a year.

Also, not all peppers dry very well!! The ones that dry best will be thin walled, like cayenne, habenero, etc. Peppers like Bell peppers are so juicy that they tend to decompose unless you chop them up and put them in the food dehydrator. Even then, they don't rehydrate very well and are mushy and ew. ) : I would dry sweet peppers then run them through a coffee grinder to make a powder, then store that in the freezer to use for flavoring.
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No need to freeze ground dehydrated peppers. I do it with cayenne and ghost pepper and just put in a main jar with shaker lid. They sit with the rest of my seasonings until they're gone up to a year.
 
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