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Seeds or no Seeds when Grinding

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I have several Yellow Moruga pods to grind for powder. Some pods have brown or discolored seeds in them, otherwise the pods look perfect. Should these discolored seeds be removed before grinding. Could they be unsafe, or could they taint the flavor. 
 
Bigger peppers I remove the seeds before grinding, discolored or not.  But if you made a ton of powder that wouldn't necessarily be feasible.  Smaller peppers such as white bullet habs, tobasco, pequin, etc are done whole with the seeds.  Way too labor intensive to try and seed them.
 
Editing to add that yes, I would remove the discolored seeds for sure.
 
poypoyking said:
Bigger peppers I remove the seeds before grinding, discolored or not.  But if you made a ton of powder that wouldn't necessarily be feasible.  Smaller peppers such as white bullet habs, tobasco, pequin, etc are done whole with the seeds.  Way too labor intensive to try and seed them.
 
Editing to add that yes, I would remove the discolored seeds for sure.
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As are ALL Thai peppers :) 
 
For powders I just leave them in.  There's a lot of oil on them.  However, if you don't like a bitter taste at all then I would remove them.
 
A trick I learned from (I think) Sicman. Dehydrate the peppers and put them in a gallon storage bag. If you bang the bag around enough, most seeds will fall free. When you grind, pull the peppers, not the seeds. Some seeds will be left, but most will be at the bottom of the bag.
 
Easy.
 
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