food Trying to make powder. Please help

Bigoledude · Mar 17, 2013

I thought I could make my own pepper-flakes for making kimchee, I bought dried Thai peppers to use in my kimchee. As it turned out, the correct pepper flakes are a few very specific varieties of "Korean" peppers.

Rick (Stickman) and I are in the process of trying to determine and buy the seeds for the perfect mix of peppers for kimchee.

Anyway, I'd like to make hot-pepper-powder with the two very large bags of dried whole Thai peppers that I have. I tried to use my little food processor and, the powder is more "flakes" than powder. Plus, it is chock-full of seeds.

Do you powder-makers remove the seeds before drying? Would a blender work better than this Micky Mouse food processor?

JoynersHotPeppers · Mar 17, 2013

If you want seedless you do that when they are fresh or after drying the whole pod of the Thai. Dry Thai pods release the seeds easily. Try the blender for a finer mix over the FP.

Scovie · Mar 17, 2013

Try a cheap coffee grinder or a mason jar on your blender blade/ring assembly.

HH81Betterhalf · Mar 17, 2013

Yup.... Scov is right, Coffee grinder is what we use here. For peppers and whole spices.... it's never seen coffee beans.

Justaguy · Mar 17, 2013

^yep. Screw a blender base onto a mason jar. Small for smaller amounts and you get powder with not much cloud.

wayright · Mar 17, 2013

Mason Jar and sifter!!!

:cool:

Kevin

Scovie · Mar 17, 2013

Or this will work also.
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JoynersHotPeppers · Mar 17, 2013

wayright said:
Mason Jar and sifter!!!

Kevin

Sam & Oliver · Mar 17, 2013

I found trying to put chopped up dry peppers into the coffee grinder clogged it up. I used a Cooks.com bullet blender held in my hand at a 45 degree angle, gently shaking it as it went and all the dried peppers chopped up perfectly. Then I took it out and did a once through in a coffee grinder on espresso setting. Perfect. Look at my "rub" gallery to see how it came out. Like table salt granules.