paulky_2000 said:
AH HA!!
Eyes wide open...good info!
Thank you for sharing!
**runs to use the reminder of his bhut/hab powder or move it to an amber glass bottle!!**
paulky,
The knowledge comes at a prize.
It was in 1978 when my small family moved to a suburb of Madras city. My wife was young and had two children and a nut case to look after. I brought whole year's supply of Blood red Reshampatti (double) dry chilli peppers to be powdered and stored. It was about 8 pounds.
We stored it in three large glass jars. Two jars went up the shelf in a very well lit kitchen. The third jar with 2 lbs of pepper powder lasted for about 4 months.
One fine morning, my wife wanted the chilli powder jar from top shelf. I looked everywhere but could not see my blood red chilli powder jars. This was a puzzle. I could see five brown powder jars (we had also powdered CUMIN-CORIANDER 3 jars).
I told my wife that there were five coriander powder jars but no chilli powder jars.
She told me that we had only 3 jars of coriander powder ...then how come we had 5 jars now?
I brought down all the jars . All were brown . Two were slightly darker brown. On smelling them, we found that they were chilli powder jars minus the color.
What had happened was , in strong sunlight and high ambient temperature in top shel near the roof, our chilli powder had lost all its color and most of its smell.
We laughed, cried , blamed each other etc. We had to buy some more chilli peppers and powder them.
Since that time onwards, we used to powder peppers and lock them up in a big metal drum used for storing wheat and rice. (we buy whole years requirement of grains in India).
NJA
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