Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Canning Peppers
In article ,
"brooklyn1" wrote: "Pat Kiewicz" wrote: mj said: Thanks everyone. We found the book last night and it does call for vinegar. We also have a pressure caner. That being said I think we are going to blanch and freeze. Right now I have a Laundry tub full of peppers waiting for me to recover from weeding. Peppers don't need to be blanched before freezing. Just do as "ctlady" said in her post: freeze cut up peppers in a single layer on a tray, then put them into freezer bags for long term storage. For long term storage it's best to dehydrate peppers. Frozen fresh peppers have a freezer shelf life of about 1 year. Home canned peppers have a shelf life of about 2 years. Dehydrated peppers have a shelf life of about 2 years but increases to about 10 years and longer when frozen. If one has a glut of say fresh bell peppers from their garden it's best to cook them in a recipe and then freeze the cooked dish, stuffed peppers freeze well... freezing fresh raw bell peppers ruins them for using fresh and for using in most all cooked recipes, even dumped into soup they'll disintergrate rapidly. Whenever I have a lot of bell peppers from my garden I eat as many as I can raw in salads and saute in recipes for immediate use and give the rest away. I really don't see the point in freezing or canning bell peppers. And hot peppers store best dried. Bell peppers contain so much moisture that it costs more in energy usage to dry them in a home dehydrater than to buy them commercially dried. Commercial dehydrating is done in a vacuum chamber, moisture is literally sucked out while very little heat is applied, this retains and even intensifies flavor. Home dehydrators actually waste food, it dries but with very little flavor retained, so essentially you'll be producing dust. Unless it's a food that can be sun dried (not many can be) don't bother, home dehydrators are a waste. Most hot peppers contain little moisture so are very easy to air dry. In repost to the deranged idiot above, http://www.i4at.org/surv/soldehyd.htm -- - Billy There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Will Rogers http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Canning tomatoes - best varieties | Edible Gardening | |||
Summer fruit canning & Prunus tomentosa bushcherry | Plant Science | |||
Spag. Sauce Canning Question | Edible Gardening | |||
Spag. Sauce Canning Question | Gardening |