Recent content by wizwor

    Just to wrap this up, this morning I ground up 100 carolina reapers.  The yield was 37 tsp of powder which is 3/8 tsp per pepper.

New Hampshire is 50th.  Hard to dispute any list that comes to this conclusion.   :party: If you click through to the worst places in each state, that is spot on for the Granite State as well.     Don't disagree with Massachusetts as #49 either.  How Lynn and Revere are on the list of worst...

I tbs of ground ghost pepper causes a little sweat under the eyes, but no hiccups, so I am going to declare victory.

Last night I marinated three pounds of eye of round using the recipe above and 1 tbs of the ghost pepper powder.  Tomorrow, we will see just how bad my science is ;-)

I just ground up 70 jalapenos which yielded 16 tbs of powder which weighed 3.9 oz.  Not a good study, but 48 tsp / 70 peppers = .656 tsp / pepper which I will estimate as 3/4 tsp per pepper.

  I recorded this as part of the study.  Total weight was 18.3 ounces (stems removed).  I did 100 peppers at a time with 47 in the last batch.  The first 100 was 3.3 oz.  I measured 15 tbs and 2.5 tsp or 47.5 tsp.  As there are 48 tsp per cup, I estimate 1/2 tsp per pepper. 15.8 tbs, 3.3 oz =...

  I ground up 547 Ghost peppers this morning.  Yield was 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper per whole pepper.  

  Do you have to pollinate the plants?

Thank you all for the warm welcome.  Special thanks to SmokenFire for the helpful links.  Special hello to The_NorthEast_ChileMan who is my neighbor.  I look forward to learning from and sharing with all of you.

Good morning.  I discovered this forum searching for conversion factors for peppers in various states.  I make beef jerky and many recipes include peppers -- ghost, habanero, and jalapenos mostly.  In the interest of simplifying my process, I would like to replace peppers with powdered peppers. ...