Hanging peppers to dry

Follow our step by step instructions for making your own chile ristra. They are great for decorating while also drying out your peppers.

Follow this guide to find out exactly how to dry peppers- either in a dehydrator, low and slow in the oven, or air drying on a string.

I leave some of my Anaheim Peppers on the plant to ripen. These lovely red peppers are then strung on quilting thread or embroidery floss and hung to dry. Like my drying rake/rack? Once completely dry I will remove the stem and seeds and give them a few turns in the blender, then store in a jar. This will make my pepper flakes to use through out the year. To string them, I use a regular needle, piercing them through the stem. If I have a short strand, I leave the needle on the string…

How to string and hang dry jalapeno peppers Are you wondering how to use extra jalapeno peppers or how to make your own crushed red pepp...

How to string and hang dry jalapeno peppers Are you wondering how to use extra jalapeno peppers or how to make your own crushed red pepp...

Or, more accurately, how I made a hot pepper ristra*. Because, of course I can't do it the normal way ;) I grew 4 cayenne peppers plants t...

When winter arrived, we harvested our chillies before the frost could get to them and found ourselves facing Mt Chillington. Since we use dried chilli in pretty much all of our Indian dishes, drying and saving them was the most obvious answer for us, and there was a certain appeal in hanging bundles of homegrown produce from the ceiling too. Here is my entirely unsanctioned, over complicated, make-it-up-as-you-go-along guide to stringing, hanging and drying chillies.

Drying peppers is easy! Follow these step by step instructions to learn the 5 best ways: dehydrator, oven, air fryer, hanging, or air-drying.

A two year old girl died after her caretaker allegedly poisoned her with chili powder

Cayenne peppers are an easy pepper to grow, even for us northern gardeners; they are prolific, grow on the smaller side, and are generally disease and pest free. AND they are incredibly easy to pre…