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Rymerpt

Rymerpt

This is my first year growing superhots. Mostly I have pickled, dried, powdered (seperately). I now have about twenty ghosts (that I grew) that I would like to keep in a relitivly fresh state. Please help. Can I just fine chop with garlic and keep in the fridge? How long will it last?


I love asian food. I was thinking maybe a garlic pepper paste.

I want it to be able to last months.


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THANKS FOLKS


Rymerpt
 
if you like asian food, i'd reccomend making the thai condoment nam pla prik, that lasts for a while. What do you plan on doing with the garlic chile mixture? You could dehydrate then rehydrate and you'll still get the flavor. Could make your own sriracha too. If you want to make the pepper paste, i'd check out the 3 hungry tummies blog for red curry paste or other pastes. Home made curry paste is great if you know how to make thai curries.  There are multiple curry paste recipes here: http://3hungrytummies.blogspot.com/2012/09/khrueng-kaeng-thai-curry-pastes.html
 
There's no way to keep them fresh and unprocessed for months. You could try vacuum sealing them and keeping them in the fridge. You're best off processing them like BigB suggested
 
+1 to what Phil said - everything organic eventually breaks down from fresh. Your only way to keep fresh peppers around is to constantly grow them, which means getting a grow area set up with uber lights, heat and such. 
 
I don't know if you've tried making sauces and canning - AlabamaJack has a thread about making a simple, yet very good, puree. Also, another thing to consider is freezing. The pods will end up soft when you thaw them, but if you're ok with that (it can be ok if you finely chop or even slap them in a blender), that's one way to get fairly close to the fresh flavor you are looking for. 
 
I read that this would last in the fridge months:


Fresh peppers
Garlic
Sea salt
Vinegar


Blend together (add vinegar after)
 
I'd say a curry paste has a longer shelf life, it depends on what you put into a hot sauce and how you make it. I've had home made curry pastes for up to 6 months when  make a batch, but i always use all of it so i've never tried going longer
SavinaRed said:
does a curry paste last any longer than a hot sauce would last ?
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Rymerpt said:
I read that this would last in the fridge months:


Fresh peppers
Garlic
Sea salt
Vinegar
 
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 In general salt and vinegar adds shelf life to things, as does refridgeration heh
 
A trick I learned from reading posts by PIC_1, chop em up and stick them in a jar and top off with vinegar of your choice. The vinegar preserves the peppers and lets you take your time as to what you want to do with them. don't even need to refrigerate. Of course you need to like vinegar for this to work :rolleyes:
 
+1 Hawaiianero.  Did this now, without reading the PIC_1 post. Inspiration was that a Chinese guy told me he put garlic in vinegar and keep it like this.
 
Another thing I do is to put salt in a jar, cut peppers at least in half (or smaller, depending on how big they are), deseed, and put a layer of peppers, a layer of salt, and so on, enging with salt, shake well the jar to let the salt reach everywhere, add salt if needed, and keep it like this, no refrigerator. It is well known the salt is very good preservative. The peppers will be drier, of course, because the salt will dry them a bit. But will be close to their "original". And you have also hot and flavored salt too. When you use the peppers, you can wash them to get rid of too much salt, depending on how are you using them, and depending to your taste.
 
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