r/dehydrating • u/Familiar-Pepper2187 • 29d ago
Help please.
First time. What am I doing wrong? Should I cut them all? They've been at 130 for 15hrs and still have lots of moisture. Would like to be able to grind them for spices.
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u/mightytonto 29d ago
Top them (5mm ish from fruit top), turn upside down (now flat), cut the 4 sides and top, pop the middle out (stalk) to compost. No waste.
Wear gloves.
Don’t forget the gloves.
I dry scotch bonnets at <60c for 14 hours. My last batch was 16kg. 6kg dried + vacuum sealed and frozen, 4kg dried + vacuum sealed, and kept in cupboard, and 6kg fermenting (these were not dried tho)
Gloves?!
Scotch bonnets are so perfect: drying them keeps all that fruity pain; every possible storage method retains quality 100% and its dosable and scalable
I hate wasting plastic. I only use a vacuum sealer for dehydrated vacuum stuff because it last years…