My brother loved peppers. So his wife put some in the countertop dehydrator in the kitchen. The smell chased them all out of the house. We laughed for years about that one.
Freeze drying is a great way to store your food as far as jalapeno's goes I have never dehydrated them just had one plant and enough peppers for salsa to be canned that year, I was the only one who liked hot stuff LOL thank you for sharing your video it was very interesting!! God bless you all and take care
With the powdered pepers you could put some in a paper shaker so they could be added to food to a person's taste. Make hot sausage. Label the container! So you don't confuse hot peper with bell pepper.
I remember many summers when we were literally dreading to go to the garden. You see... we had SO MANY PEPPERS AND TOMATOES WE WERE DROWNING! I would grab some peppers... prepare my fresh tomatoes... chop onion and garlic... mix well... season... popped these little bags in the deep freezer. We didn't have a freeze dryer! Those aggravating, over populated, super happy plants just kept giving!! That's what we did... and lots of salsa too.
Some of the mild peppers that seem hotter is because they are getting cross pollinated with the hotter varieties. You need about 10-15' between mild peppers and hot peppers to prevent the cross pollination.
If there's not a lot of rain, hot peppers will be hotter, sweet peppers will be sweeter. The flavor is more concentrated with less rain or water, hence why when they are freeze dried they are hotter. When using the oxygen absorbers, you don't want to leave unused ones one the counter as they start working immediately. You can use the dehydrated hot peppers in a pasta salad, put them in the dressing so they rehydrate. You can put them in meatballs or meatloaf. As long as there's enough moisture in them they will rehydrate.
My goodness love what your peppers 🌶️ are doing!! In the 80 generation so being also a city dweller use pots but not great. Think my house partner didn’t use new potting soil. 🫢 But we did get enough to share with our neighbor. Thanks so much.
My favorite things to freeze dry are carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers so the base for soups or gumbos are ready to go! Also fun is simple guacamole with avocados, lime juice, garlic, cilantro. Just add a bit of water, sour cream and salsa for guacamole or put in blender with chicken stock for a chilled avocado soup. Yummy.
If you let the jalapenos turn red before you pick them, you can roast them and then dehydrate or freeze dry them for homemade chipotle spice. For the freeze dried green ones, I would consider making a green tobasco-type sauce with some.
one word--gloves--lol I know I am not a glove wearer either, but with peppers I would have to consider it. Watch your eyes! What a glorious harvest! To God give the glory!
Your brave Kevin, working the Jalapeños with no rubber gloves on. Since the oils will get on your hands and they be like 🔥 or wash so they don’t get into your eyes. Seeing all those peppers bring me back to my youth. My Grandpa used to eat his meal and have a whole Jalapeño and takes a bit then eat food. He used to bring back small bushes back from Texas/Mexico with little 🌶️ on them. He lived in Texas/Mexico in Winter and Summer here in Michigan. Until he got too old to make that trip. That was into his 70’s/80’s Simply Alaska RU-vid channel, does a lot of preserving of food. They make a Cowboy Candy that’s made with Jalapeños. I’m not sure if they are doing freeze dried yet, since I’ve not watched there canning/preserving of veggies this year yet, since it’s still growing season up there
I worked in a private owner’s warehouse where he had four machine operators , each one was designated a food product for production.. coffee - chocolate- peanuts - popcorn - everything was made from scratch by each of us - the process was detailed from start to finish , when my little kettle worked right you ended up with awesome candy with macadamia- cashews- pecans in light - dark chocolate - you had to run the trays over to the freezer asap because that was our freeze dry method - then we packaged them up for sale I loved that job even when the witch’s kiln broke down but I ended up taking those messed up ones home to my family ! 🙏🇺🇸
Hi Kevin and Rachel, I had trick to making the peppers milder or hotter of the same type you cannot make a ghost pepper as mild as a banana pepper. If you hold back the water from the pepper plants to the point that the plant starts to look wilted then harvest your peppers they will have a higher content of Capsaicin the oil that has the heat in the pepper, if you were to water the plant heavier for 2 to 3 days before harvest the oil level will be lower.
If you like chow chow it's a relish you can make with green tomatoes and you can put some of your jalapeños it it and can it. It's usually eaten with beans or just as a side to meats. You can put red peppers in it to give a little color. I'm sure you can find the recipe it's been years since I've made it. You can also make pepper jelly, these are southern ideas from Kentucky, Tennessee and further south. You can also take your jalapeños slice them in half stuff them with cream cheese and wrap in bacon and either grill or bake until jalapeños are tender. Similar to jalapeño poppers.
Hello from northeast Georgia! I always have a jar of chow chow in my fridge to eat with “soup beans” (Great Northern Beans), Pinto Beans, etc. and Cornbread. I prefer mild instead of hot, though, and I always soak dried beans to cook. I used to use freshly ground meal for my cornbread, but learned that White Lilly Buttermilk Cornbread mix is just as good, or better, so I use it 100% of the time now. In fact, I made cornbread in an iron skillet for supper tonight.
The big thing now is freeze dried candy...M&M candy, skittles....the list is endless on types of candy that can be freeze dried. Demonstrate some of this on your video! I think this is why the option of freeze drying is becoming more to the forefront again. The candy comes in the mylar sealed bags. From a dangerously hot and dry SE Kansas 🌻.
Awesome harvest of jalapeños! Freeze drying looks like a great way to preserve them😊! Thanks for sharing Kevin! Take care, God Bless you and your family 🙏🏻🤗💕!
That freeze dryer is pretty cool. I love French's Crispy Jalapeños and eat them like chips. I can see freeze dried jalapeno slices being similar to that. My favorite use is of course Tex-Mex first with them on everything. And I love a grilled pimento cheese sandwich with candied jalapenos and peach preserves. Sounds odd, but I love it.
Oh Wow Kevin! I'd have to wear a mask & gloves ! Love watching you do the freeze drier. Cant wait to see what else you do in it. Great video ♥️ GOD Bless HHF Family 🙏🙏🌹 Love 🌻 from Apex NC 💜
I can imagine how hot those peppers are. And I'm sure the juice goes thru your skin and fingers. Careful not too touch your face, oh boy! And I like the idea to wear a mask if it stops the eyes from burning.
Oh No🫢Bad ,you forgot your Gloves🥵! I was wishing you could have heard me😢. I used to grow lots andlots of Hots . We canned them ,mostly Hungarian Yellows for Coctail Snacks . Also Jalapeños . I wish I had know about the Sugar Rush Peach,they would have been excellent 🎉. Today my guts can barley handle a Pablano on a good day😳. Too many dares in the Garden bkew a hole in my stumy😢. Great Job Kevin,I dont know how your fingers did all that,must he they weren't hot enough lmbo xxz. Brave very Brave! JO JO IN VT 💞
Jar up a dozen hard boiled eggs, Jalapeños, garlic, onions, pickling spice (no cloves) pour in a light sweet sour brine to cover. Age in fridge one week.
I don't know if you know this or not, Kevin. But when you plant jalapeno peppers next to your sweet peppers. And my kind, they will cross-pollinate and be hot. So you might want to think about that. But you got a beautiful little garden of peppers there.
I have been wanting a freeze dryer but they are expensive. I keep watching you, Dutch ,it’s making me consider one. Love your videos,family take care ✨👍🙏😊❤️
Kevin please be careful cutting stuff on the mandolin. So interesting watching the freeze drier videos.Cog hill has been freezing things also. Man wish one of these were in my budget.
I grow and use them in Chili sauce, in turn I use the chili sauce on Tacos, meatloaf, meat pie, etc. on anything you’d like. Good old fashioned chili sauce
You can also cut jalapeños peppers in half stuff with cream cheese wrap bacon around them and bake in the oven for about 30 or 35 minute and you have bacon stuffed jalapeños peppers.
Kevin and Rachel this Old Lady loves making hot sauce with cut up hot dogs it I use four different hot peppers but this year I haven't made any because I couldn't find cayenne pepper seeds which I love so hopefully I'll find seeds or plants next year I use hot peppers in meatloaf chili fried potatoes eggs many many other things God Bless you both Kevin use gloves I've learned the hard way as I did breathing the smell be careful
Pretty sure what paper you have there is Parchment Paper. Can be used in all kinds of baking to help with less sticking and helping to keep a cleaner tray. If cut to the size of your cake pans then gently grease and flour pan then put down paper usually comes out nicer then with just grease and flour. Bake cookies, bacon. And if doing same thing back to back can reuse. Great stuff😊
In Alabama we make pepper sauce. That Is putting whole or sliced or sliced peppers in a jar and add hot vinegar in jar with a half teaspoon of plain sat. Add tips and rings to seal. Eat them whole. Love peppers.
I always fill my trays to the max , yes the process time is a little longer but not as long as making 2 or 3 batches , they will do fine . Maximize the use of the freeze dryer .
Oh my! I see Christmas gifts in the making! You could freeze dry all your salsa, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce ingredients in one jar ! Make little gift baskets of salsa ingredients and chips , spaghetti sauce, pasta and fresh loaf of garlic bread or freeze dried croutons! Smaller jars for the kids to give to teachers etc.! Have fun! Your creations are endless!!🥰
i jumped on the dehydrator train , prolly should have waited for this machine craze lol . the good thing about freeze drying is you can use your goods for everything , i think these jalepenos would be great in everything . i love cooking and adding weird /unconventional items to my food for intrest .
Love your ideas and knowhow in all you do! My only idea for you is to use a shield/guard/pusher when you use a Mandolin! It only takes one slip and the ends of your fingers will be under the blades! Thank you for your teaching lessons to live by! God Bless!
The ends of those peppers when the stem is I would use a piece of garlic or two put the ends in a couple of jar and use clear vinegar or brown vinegar and fill the jar tightly and either let them ferment by room temperature or refrigerate. Oh add add a pinch of salt to the garlic and pepper 🌶️ and vinegar as desired. You have pepper sauce.
I would think you can also vacuum seal in the Seal a Meal in small packets that way you wouldn’t have to keep opening and sealing the jars. Any thoughts?
I'm not really able to eat hot peppers. But doing tomatoes and green peppers 🤤 yummy. Meatloaf is my favorite. Mango salsa, hummus too the list is endless.
My grandma canned tomatoes and other vegetables- she taught me and my cousins how to can - I enjoyed it very much. As a twenty something, my husband and I planted a garden behind our house - he worked really hard to create a properly small garden for us- I learned to also freeze / can vegetables- the sauces were so very tasty:) . I grew squash - that did very well - I parboiled / blended/ froze that in ice trays to make baby food. Carrots did not do real well though- I wanted to freeze rasp berries , but the birds got what all the neighborhood children missed :) so many wonderful memories- I really like the idea of freeze dried- I have never seen / heard anyone do that at home- I do understand it . Does it make any difference in flavor?
