Pepper Freezing Tips - Quick and Easy 

We only have 2 people in my household so I didn't need a 15 minute tutorial on how to freeze huge quantities of peppers. Thank you for a simple way for a simple girl and I look forward to watching more of your videos if they are anything like this one. I just subscribed!

Short, sweet and informative. Thanks Kim.

Wow oh wow, I never thought of using a straw to create my own vac & seal. Thanks for sharing that tip

This is a really cool tutorial. I’m going to start freezing my peppers. 👍🏻

Beautiful, and we'll explained you also looked good while doing it so made it more intriguing

FINALLY!! I can only buy Jalapenos on trays of 5. I really only use 1 at a time. This tip is really going to help. Thank you so much.

didn't know that cheap method of vacuuming, and didn't know about freezing peppers. I have lots of ghost peppers I can now freeze. Thanks!

Just what I needed to start saving on food. 💕

Very informative video and a nice tip. Thank you for sharing.

Sorry I didn't watch this when you first posted but in a zone 5 garden the peppers have been gone for 3 months now. After watching your pepper jelly video I had to come and take a look. Hoping that next summer I'll have a good pepper harvest and room in the freezer to try this. I already do this with tomatoes, don't know why I never tried it with peppers. Thank you for the video!

Super cool tip and trick at the end 👍👍👍!!

Love your manual way of vacum sealing.

Thanks for tip. So easy!

Pepper Jelly is my favorite Thanks for the teaching Lady

Found some bogo at the grocery store and this is exactly what I needed to find. Thanks 👍 up

awesome update thank you for sharing and blessing

I definitely needed that straw trick! Thanks for this!! 💪🏾💪🏾👏🏾

Kim, I Can't wait for that new pepper jelly recipe! I've been squirreling away jalapeno and sweet peppers all year long. I wash & core them as I get them on sale here, and shove them in the freezer. I have a shelf full, and, will be making pepper jelly within the next several weeks. Your recipe is right on time, as I have been concerned with the high sugar content. My Tabasco harvest took off after the brutal summer heat started dying down. I had to spray for a bad aphid infestation, but, once that was under control, the plants took off. I've been fully loaded on 5 six-foot-tall pepper plants, at least four times now. This weekend will be my final harvest, then, I'm ripping the plants. Cold front moving in and will take them down. Also, I'm ready to plant something else in that space. P.S. I've been dehydrating all those peppers, then, grinding them into spice powder. Awesome-ness sprinkled on the plate! Hugs!

Great idea thanks 😃

Thanks for the help! This is my first year growing peppers haha, I grew some habaneros, hungarian wax peppers and some sweet peppers. I pickled my first jar of wax peppers the other night, Think im gonna freeze the rest of them and my habaneros.

great video and I love your pepper,s looks like you got a really good harvest iam going to tranceplant my peppers into my garden I like to do all kinds of things with my peppers I bake them in the oven in the winter and in the summer I put them on the grill

love pepper jelly!

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Genius , using the straw is really a genius idea, thank u

thanks for that Kim!

Perfect!

Thanks for the tip pretty lady gonna freeze my peppers next week thanks for the video 👍

enjoyed your video kim I have been getting pepper,s on my pepper plant I have three plants I think iam going to make pepper jelly really soon

I love growing peppers. I like making salsa out of mine. I will have to try your recipe. Sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing your garden tips. :)

Pepper jelly. Winner

Got it! Thx!!!

Very cool

Good to know Thank you

Another way to remove air from the bag is to use a large container of water. Seal the bag most of the way (like you did in this video) and the slowly lower the bag into the water. The water will displace the air from the bag and then you can close the bag. Voila! vacuum sealed bag. :D

OK good tip , I got hundreds of peppers this year & couldn't give them away, I'll try it. thanks

Great! Merci beaucoup 🥰

Great tip. Never thought about freezing them whole. Now, tip time. I buy fresh pork shoulder butts @ $2.88 and grind my own sausage. Put in Tyme and sage from the garden. So now, I have some pretty inexpensive sausage. I buy family pack beef arm steaks @ $2.88 a pound also and grind my own lean ground beef. I pack them as close to one pound each. When I just have one or 2 bags to vacuum seal, the straw method works great. However, when I have all these bags of pork, beef or vegetables, I fill one side of my sink full with cold water. With my baggies ready to seal, I slowly immerse them in the water which pushes all the air out. When I have the bag submerged right to the top being careful not to let water in the baggy, I zip it shut!! I like to use the freezer bags with the little zipper on them as I am able to close them much faster.

The straw trick 👍🏼

That’s a good tip

Thanks, Kim!!

Great video

Wonderful! I love the straw trick to get rid of excess air! Thank you for sharing 😃

the straw trick is awesome lol

Genius!!!

Beautiful

Great tip for a DYI vacuum bag using a straw.

My goodness Kim, them peppers!!! So awesome! Love this method and been using it for 2season already! Thank you!!!

Wow, amazing video

Good one !!

wonderful!!

great vacuum seal

Ya I like the straw trick beets trying to suck out the air with your mouth on the bag lol :) My lettuce is doing great now :) It is not as sweet as I would like think that it got into the 80 a few days could that have made it bitter? I'm trying to let it get as much sun as I can but I might have to cover it next time. Thanks for sharing! :)

Thanks for sharing. How long will the peppers last in your freezing method?

l like pepers. Good job!!Have a wonderful evening!

Will the peppers get soft & mushy from freezing at all?? We have a vacuam sealer so that will work good. Thanks for sharing.

I like the idea of the white vinegar to wash the peppers. I'm going to start doing this for all my harvest. Thanks Kim

Nice tip to freeze peppers. Is there any specific way to defrost these to avoid being watery when want to use ?

Hi from merry old England can i chop them before using your freezing method?

I have a food saver, I can just use that instead of the straw method. Besides it might be a bit of work, but I think it'd be great if you mixed the peppers, or whatever produce you're doing, with seasoning as well as the paired meat to go with it as for quick and easy meal

My cubanelle peppers are out growing my other peppers & I didn’t know what to do with them before this video, thank you so much. Just a quick question, does freezing peppers change the texture of them like bananas? I’m not a fan of mushy peppers, I like them to have a snap to them.

About how long will they last freezing them this way?

I froze my jalapeño peppers last year and when I went to use them the seeds had turned black and the peppers didn’t taste very good. Do you have any tips on what I perhaps did wrong or advice so that doesn’t happen again this year?

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If you do a lot of freezing (and you haven't already bought one)? I recommend buying a vacuum sealer and a couple rolls of bags. One 8" and one 11" covers 99.9% of my needs. They come in 150 foot rolls. Foodsaver is the most popular brand, but I find them overpriced and poor quality which seems to get worst each year. There's lots of cheaper ones (around $50). You just need to search for the features you need. Being able to manually start and stop is good for not crushing food, and having a 'port' for a Ball Jar attachment is really handy for marinades and long term jar storage. Thanks for the video! I've got a bunch of Jalapeno peppers for about ten pounds of summer sausage I'm going to make, but I'm not quite ready to start.

Thank you I was like.. this is so not necessary cutting more peppers after I spent hours prepping other stuff.. still had a whole bag.. I said nope not today just gonna freeze em and defrost them then prep them when ready!!!!!!!!!

But won't the peppers get mushy when they are thawed, unless they're blanched first?

Cut off the top 3” of a plastic water bottle. Heat the screw on cap and push a straw through it. Place the open end over the back of a hair dryer, turn it on and you have a suction device to suck the air out of your bags! Ta-da!

How can I stop from big sweet peppers from making water when taken out the freezer

I tried this and the when I went to use the peppers the seeds were all brown and nasty. Peppers were really mushy. Not sure if or what I did wrong. Please help.

They'll overwinter??? Where? I live near Detroit (Windsor), can't imagine they'd survive. BTW, I've grown some peppers and I'm not sure what they are and when I should harvest them. They look like Banana peppers but they're much larger (6.5"). The place I bought them had them labelled as "Thai Dragon Peppers" but they're clearly not.

Can someone help me with a question? I froze a few jalapeños using my vacuum packer. About 30 days later I took them out and defrosted them. They were soggy. So soft that I had to throw away. What did I do wrong?

make sure to wear gloves if cutting hot peppers , especially if you keep your nails short. I learned this the hard way , took a week for my thumb to stop burning. thanks for your video it helped me a lot !

tank learn

Thanks much for the tip cause I hate wasting the homegrown jalapenos, and also you are quite a spicy pepper yourself, 😉👍

Won't they get mushy when you thaw them?

I'm so sorry but Several of my friends have tried this and it completely failed. Does anyone have a full proof way to freeze jalapeños? Thank you and I hope it works for the rest of you 🙏 Marie

good day ms Kim can you give me some advice because my peppers always attacks by aphid's and some pest insects

I'd love to make some pepper jam with you anytime.😉

Can i use the tips from the Pepper Pruning video for all types of peppers? I have Datil, Giant Chinese bells, and Festival peppers.

Not as quick,but I mix my peppers up ,clean them and put through a food processor.I freeze that in small,1 cup containers.1 cup per chili, spaghetti sauce or meatloaf

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You must be in California or Florida because there's no way peppers will overwinter in most of the US

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Beware... I used this freezer method and my peppers turned dark and mushy when thawed. I wasted about 100 peppers from my harvest......

Frozen peppers will never be “fresh “ again. You just use these in cooked foods. I take them out and cut them while nearly frozen. I pat them dry and sauté them or add them to cooked dishes like meat loaf.

Ugggghhh, why do Americans insist on calling things by the wrong name? They're not peppers, they're chilli's mate.