dried Fresh vs. dried

[elchris76]

How much hotter are fresh pods than dried pods? (Newbie here) Do dried pods lose heat as they get older?


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[WickedMojo]

They do lose some heat, but if your comparing fresh dried to fresh picked, the major diff for me seems to be the way the heat gets distributed, dried has similar heat but seems to localized on the points of contact, fresh will spread the heat and build more, if that makes sense.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Dried lose all the water content of the pepper so they will be hotter by weight because they lost the water weight so there is more cap percentage HOWEVER cap is lost in the drying process as you know if you have dried peppers; coughing fits, burning eyes. For all intents and purposes let's say it evens out unless someone wants to test it.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

PS. My post pertains to using powders on food but if rehydrating pods they are weaker because you are re-adding the water weight but they already lost the cap in the drying.

The amount is negligible.

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

HOWEVER cap is lost in the drying process as you know if you have dried peppers; coughing fits, burning eyes. 

 
So if I air/sun dry a whole/uncut cayenne the capsaicin concentration is lost?

 

[The Hot Pepper]

In fact you are preserving the cap with that process. With the temperatures of electric dehydrators, cap is released, most definitely.
 
Good point btw.
 
In this regard they are hotter by weight!

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

 With the temperatures of electric dehydrators, cap is released, most definitely.
 

While I totally agree that if I dry in an electric dehydrator. my EXCALIBUR was set to 95°F, the room quickly became unlivable due to the fumes causing respiratory distress. Why does this happen if capsaicin's melting point is 62 to 65 °C/144 to 149 °F? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin