My brother loved peppers. So his wife put some in the countertop dehydrator in the kitchen. The smell chased them all out of the house. We laughed for years about that one.
one word--gloves--lol I know I am not a glove wearer either, but with peppers I would have to consider it. Watch your eyes! What a glorious harvest! To God give the glory!
I remember many summers when we were literally dreading to go to the garden. You see... we had SO MANY PEPPERS AND TOMATOES WE WERE DROWNING! I would grab some peppers... prepare my fresh tomatoes... chop onion and garlic... mix well... season... popped these little bags in the deep freezer. We didn't have a freeze dryer! Those aggravating, over populated, super happy plants just kept giving!! That's what we did... and lots of salsa too.
Awesome harvest of jalapeños! Freeze drying looks like a great way to preserve them😊! Thanks for sharing Kevin! Take care, God Bless you and your family 🙏🏻🤗💕!
Oh Wow Kevin! I'd have to wear a mask & gloves ! Love watching you do the freeze drier. Cant wait to see what else you do in it. Great video ♥️ GOD Bless HHF Family 🙏🙏🌹 Love 🌻 from Apex NC 💜
Some of the mild peppers that seem hotter is because they are getting cross pollinated with the hotter varieties. You need about 10-15' between mild peppers and hot peppers to prevent the cross pollination.
My favorite things to freeze dry are carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers so the base for soups or gumbos are ready to go! Also fun is simple guacamole with avocados, lime juice, garlic, cilantro. Just add a bit of water, sour cream and salsa for guacamole or put in blender with chicken stock for a chilled avocado soup. Yummy.
My goodness love what your peppers 🌶️ are doing!! In the 80 generation so being also a city dweller use pots but not great. Think my house partner didn’t use new potting soil. 🫢 But we did get enough to share with our neighbor. Thanks so much.
Freeze drying is a great way to store your food as far as jalapeno's goes I have never dehydrated them just had one plant and enough peppers for salsa to be canned that year, I was the only one who liked hot stuff LOL thank you for sharing your video it was very interesting!! God bless you all and take care
With the powdered pepers you could put some in a paper shaker so they could be added to food to a person's taste. Make hot sausage. Label the container! So you don't confuse hot peper with bell pepper.
If there's not a lot of rain, hot peppers will be hotter, sweet peppers will be sweeter. The flavor is more concentrated with less rain or water, hence why when they are freeze dried they are hotter. When using the oxygen absorbers, you don't want to leave unused ones one the counter as they start working immediately. You can use the dehydrated hot peppers in a pasta salad, put them in the dressing so they rehydrate. You can put them in meatballs or meatloaf. As long as there's enough moisture in them they will rehydrate.
Hi Kevin and Rachel, I had trick to making the peppers milder or hotter of the same type you cannot make a ghost pepper as mild as a banana pepper. If you hold back the water from the pepper plants to the point that the plant starts to look wilted then harvest your peppers they will have a higher content of Capsaicin the oil that has the heat in the pepper, if you were to water the plant heavier for 2 to 3 days before harvest the oil level will be lower.
If you let the jalapenos turn red before you pick them, you can roast them and then dehydrate or freeze dry them for homemade chipotle spice. For the freeze dried green ones, I would consider making a green tobasco-type sauce with some.
I have been wanting a freeze dryer but they are expensive. I keep watching you, Dutch ,it’s making me consider one. Love your videos,family take care ✨👍🙏😊❤️
Your brave Kevin, working the Jalapeños with no rubber gloves on. Since the oils will get on your hands and they be like 🔥 or wash so they don’t get into your eyes. Seeing all those peppers bring me back to my youth. My Grandpa used to eat his meal and have a whole Jalapeño and takes a bit then eat food. He used to bring back small bushes back from Texas/Mexico with little 🌶️ on them. He lived in Texas/Mexico in Winter and Summer here in Michigan. Until he got too old to make that trip. That was into his 70’s/80’s Simply Alaska RUclips channel, does a lot of preserving of food. They make a Cowboy Candy that’s made with Jalapeños. I’m not sure if they are doing freeze dried yet, since I’ve not watched there canning/preserving of veggies this year yet, since it’s still growing season up there
That freeze dryer is pretty cool. I love French's Crispy Jalapeños and eat them like chips. I can see freeze dried jalapeno slices being similar to that. My favorite use is of course Tex-Mex first with them on everything. And I love a grilled pimento cheese sandwich with candied jalapenos and peach preserves. Sounds odd, but I love it.
Love your ideas and knowhow in all you do! My only idea for you is to use a shield/guard/pusher when you use a Mandolin! It only takes one slip and the ends of your fingers will be under the blades! Thank you for your teaching lessons to live by! God Bless!
I worked in a private owner’s warehouse where he had four machine operators , each one was designated a food product for production.. coffee - chocolate- peanuts - popcorn - everything was made from scratch by each of us - the process was detailed from start to finish , when my little kettle worked right you ended up with awesome candy with macadamia- cashews- pecans in light - dark chocolate - you had to run the trays over to the freezer asap because that was our freeze dry method - then we packaged them up for sale I loved that job even when the witch’s kiln broke down but I ended up taking those messed up ones home to my family ! 🙏🇺🇸
Kevin please be careful cutting stuff on the mandolin. So interesting watching the freeze drier videos.Cog hill has been freezing things also. Man wish one of these were in my budget.
Kevin and Rachel this Old Lady loves making hot sauce with cut up hot dogs it I use four different hot peppers but this year I haven't made any because I couldn't find cayenne pepper seeds which I love so hopefully I'll find seeds or plants next year I use hot peppers in meatloaf chili fried potatoes eggs many many other things God Bless you both Kevin use gloves I've learned the hard way as I did breathing the smell be careful
If you like chow chow it's a relish you can make with green tomatoes and you can put some of your jalapeños it it and can it. It's usually eaten with beans or just as a side to meats. You can put red peppers in it to give a little color. I'm sure you can find the recipe it's been years since I've made it. You can also make pepper jelly, these are southern ideas from Kentucky, Tennessee and further south. You can also take your jalapeños slice them in half stuff them with cream cheese and wrap in bacon and either grill or bake until jalapeños are tender. Similar to jalapeño poppers.
Hello from northeast Georgia! I always have a jar of chow chow in my fridge to eat with “soup beans” (Great Northern Beans), Pinto Beans, etc. and Cornbread. I prefer mild instead of hot, though, and I always soak dried beans to cook. I used to use freshly ground meal for my cornbread, but learned that White Lilly Buttermilk Cornbread mix is just as good, or better, so I use it 100% of the time now. In fact, I made cornbread in an iron skillet for supper tonight.
I'm not really able to eat hot peppers. But doing tomatoes and green peppers 🤤 yummy. Meatloaf is my favorite. Mango salsa, hummus too the list is endless.
The big thing now is freeze dried candy...M&M candy, skittles....the list is endless on types of candy that can be freeze dried. Demonstrate some of this on your video! I think this is why the option of freeze drying is becoming more to the forefront again. The candy comes in the mylar sealed bags. From a dangerously hot and dry SE Kansas 🌻.
I can imagine how hot those peppers are. And I'm sure the juice goes thru your skin and fingers. Careful not too touch your face, oh boy! And I like the idea to wear a mask if it stops the eyes from burning.
In Alabama we make pepper sauce. That Is putting whole or sliced or sliced peppers in a jar and add hot vinegar in jar with a half teaspoon of plain sat. Add tips and rings to seal. Eat them whole. Love peppers.
Very good video. Thank you for the good information and suggestions. I would recommend a very large funnel when filling the jars. I cut a 4 gallon water jug in half. Turn the top half upside down and you have a very large mouth funnel that will fit canning jars. I use a stick as a pusher to pack bulky things into the jar, or even plastic sou vied bags. Thank you.
I really love that your showing the different things you freeze dry. The eggs really impressed me. Thanks for educating me.
My brother loved peppers. So his wife put some in the countertop dehydrator in the kitchen. The smell chased them all out of the house. We laughed for years about that one.
THATS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT SEEING ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL JALAPEÑOS! LOL 😂 ❤
one word--gloves--lol I know I am not a glove wearer either, but with peppers I would have to consider it. Watch your eyes! What a glorious harvest! To God give the glory!
You sure are a busy family. They sure look good. Gosh! Wash your hands and don't rub your eyes. Rachel you have the best job! Hugs.
The hotter the weather the hotter the pepper.
1. Freeze dried watermelon
2. Freeze dried Jello.
Love y'all. 😎✌️
Now I'd like to see freeze dried Jello, I can't imagine 🧐
I feel like smaller jars would be a great Christmas gift.
Man I'd use my salad shooter, way safer than a Mandolin! Keep your fingers safe! ❤
Love mine, too. My hubby calls ours "the electric mandolin ", 😊
You have convinced me I need a freeze dryer. I was on the fence since I’m 71 but I think I’m going to do it!
Taking the freeze dried foods on camping trip is a great way to have variety when your camping
That is a huge pepper harvest! What a beautiful bunch and variety of peppers! Amazing
I remember many summers when we were literally dreading to go to the garden. You see... we had SO MANY PEPPERS AND TOMATOES WE WERE DROWNING! I would grab some peppers... prepare my fresh tomatoes... chop onion and garlic... mix well... season... popped these little bags in the deep freezer. We didn't have a freeze dryer! Those aggravating, over populated, super happy plants just kept giving!! That's what we did... and lots of salsa too.
I appreciate how you make the most of your farm!
Awesome harvest of jalapeños! Freeze drying looks like a great way to preserve them😊! Thanks for sharing Kevin! Take care, God Bless you and your family 🙏🏻🤗💕!
Oh Wow Kevin! I'd have to wear a mask & gloves !
Love watching you do the freeze drier. Cant wait to see what else you do in it.
Great video ♥️
GOD Bless HHF Family 🙏🙏🌹
Love 🌻 from Apex NC 💜
If u roll the wax paper like a tube of the freeze dried pepper it might be easier to pour into mason jars. Great job !!! Love all you’ll videos.
This is so freaking Awesome to watch. Tfs. Xoxo ❤️
Thanks Kevin! You never get flustered when everything does not go as planned. I wish that I could get that confident when was cooking something new. 🌻
Jalapeno Cheddar Bacon bread.....and it freezes beautifully!
Oh ya'll should make cowboy candy! It's so good with cream cheese on crackers!!
I was going to suggest that. We love cowboy candy, with cream cheese and club, or town house crackers.
Some of the mild peppers that seem hotter is because they are getting cross pollinated with the hotter varieties. You need about 10-15' between mild peppers and hot peppers to prevent the cross pollination.
My favorite things to freeze dry are carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers so the base for soups or gumbos are ready to go! Also fun is simple guacamole with avocados, lime juice, garlic, cilantro. Just add a bit of water, sour cream and salsa for guacamole or put in blender with chicken stock for a chilled avocado soup. Yummy.
Great video Kevin. God Bless and I love y'all 💕💕💕
I really enjoy watching u harvest n preserve the food , should make more videos of the garden
My goodness love what your peppers 🌶️ are doing!!
In the 80 generation so being also a city dweller use pots but not great. Think my house partner didn’t use new potting soil. 🫢
But we did get enough to share with our neighbor.
Thanks so much.
I love to make smoked 5 cheese stuffed jalapenos. My friends have requested them several times to bring to potluck summer BBQs. 😊
KEVIN,I LOVE WATCHING THIS TYPE OF STUFF ! ONE IF THESE ARE ON MY LIST. LIVE WATCHING YOU AND THE FAMILY.
Love watching all of you guys. Have a wonderful day God Bless
Freeze drying is a great way to store your food as far as jalapeno's goes I have never dehydrated them just had one plant and enough peppers for salsa to be canned that year, I was the only one who liked hot stuff LOL thank you for sharing your video it was very interesting!! God bless you all and take care
With the powdered pepers you could put some in a paper shaker so they could be added to food to a person's taste. Make hot sausage. Label the container! So you don't confuse hot peper with bell pepper.
I wish I could afford one of those freeze dryers.
Great video Kevin, you doing great work in the kitchen
Love these videos Kevin. Thx for sharing. Prayers and blessings From OkC Grandmother.
I put a bunch of mixed hot peppers in the dehydrator last fall.When they were dry ,I ground them up into a spice.
If there's not a lot of rain, hot peppers will be hotter, sweet peppers will be sweeter. The flavor is more concentrated with less rain or water, hence why when they are freeze dried they are hotter. When using the oxygen absorbers, you don't want to leave unused ones one the counter as they start working immediately.
You can use the dehydrated hot peppers in a pasta salad, put them in the dressing so they rehydrate. You can put them in meatballs or meatloaf. As long as there's enough moisture in them they will rehydrate.
Kevin I enjoyed watching this and you did a great job at it. Thanks!!!
May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals
Hello Kevin and family
That would be awesome great way to save money
Hi Kevin and Rachel, I had trick to making the peppers milder or hotter of the same type you cannot make a ghost pepper as mild as a banana pepper. If you hold back the water from the pepper plants to the point that the plant starts to look wilted then harvest your peppers they will have a higher content of Capsaicin the oil that has the heat in the pepper, if you were to water the plant heavier for 2 to 3 days before harvest the oil level will be lower.
I would use them in soups and stews, like Chicken Tortilla Soup, Pozole and add to Spanish rice dishes… yum!
We make a jalapeños jelly every year 😋 great on a good old salteen cracker. Red pepper jelly is also really good.😋🤗🤗🤗🤗
Awesome harvest and very good looking peppers.
If you let the jalapenos turn red before you pick them, you can roast them and then dehydrate or freeze dry them for homemade chipotle spice. For the freeze dried green ones, I would consider making a green tobasco-type sauce with some.
If he likes he can make his own bear mace.
I have been wanting a freeze dryer but they are expensive. I keep watching you, Dutch ,it’s making me consider one. Love your videos,family take care ✨👍🙏😊❤️
Lots of green tomatoes 😋😋😋😋
Freeze drying would be great.
Pretty cool process. You can mix some in with any ground meat if you like jalapenos in your burgers.
Your brave Kevin, working the Jalapeños with no rubber gloves on. Since the oils will get on your hands and they be like 🔥 or wash so they don’t get into your eyes.
Seeing all those peppers bring me back to my youth. My Grandpa used to eat his meal and have a whole Jalapeño and takes a bit then eat food.
He used to bring back small bushes back from Texas/Mexico with little 🌶️ on them. He lived in Texas/Mexico in Winter and Summer here in Michigan. Until he got too old to make that trip. That was into his 70’s/80’s
Simply Alaska RUclips channel, does a lot of preserving of food. They make a Cowboy Candy that’s made with Jalapeños. I’m not sure if they are doing freeze dried yet, since I’ve not watched there canning/preserving of veggies this year yet, since it’s still growing season up there
You ever tried Mexican candy it's way different than the American candy ours is sweet but Mexican candy is hot but to Mexicans it's sweet.
Thanks Kevin for the information, Great video. David, North Ogden,Utah.♥♥♥.
❤❤❤❤
❤ grilled cheese and preserved chilli 🌶 aka toasted whole grain bread with cheese and 🌶 peppers.
Awesome video!!! Can't wait to see the candy one, lol! 😊
🕊 from Colorado
That freeze dryer is pretty cool. I love French's Crispy Jalapeños and eat them like chips. I can see freeze dried jalapeno slices being similar to that. My favorite use is of course Tex-Mex first with them on everything. And I love a grilled pimento cheese sandwich with candied jalapenos and peach preserves. Sounds odd, but I love it.
I bet that some jalapeno, cheddar cheese bread would be absolutely amazing
What a beautiful kitchen.
I would be making cowboy candy with all those jalapeno peppers, enjoy all the peppers u get this year
I like growing jalapeños, and canning them
Your pepper plants are beautiful. You could put a few freeze dry pepper on salad like a croutons
Hi there really enjoying the freeze dryer videos so interesting and real game changer how to store your produce on your homestead. Take care 💕🙏
Really enjoyed this garden-freeze drying instructional video!!😀Great video.!!! All this is new to me no ideas !😂
Enjoyed the video Kiven 😊
Great job 👍😊💜
I love the cherry peppers awesome
Thank you for sharing this video ❤💕💯
Love your ideas and knowhow in all you do! My only idea for you is to use a shield/guard/pusher when you use a Mandolin! It only takes one slip and the ends of your fingers will be under the blades! Thank you for your teaching lessons to live by! God Bless!
Those things are really expensive.we can’t do a big garden anymore,we use to o, I froze,canned. Father Time comes along there goes all your joy.❤
Interesting thanks. Chris from England
I worked in a private owner’s warehouse where he had four machine operators , each one was designated a food product for production.. coffee - chocolate- peanuts - popcorn - everything was made from scratch by each of us - the process was detailed from start to finish , when my little kettle worked right you ended up with awesome candy with macadamia- cashews- pecans in light - dark chocolate - you had to run the trays over to the freezer asap because that was our freeze dry method - then we packaged them up for sale I loved that job even when the witch’s kiln broke down but I ended up taking those messed up ones home to my family ! 🙏🇺🇸
Kevin please be careful cutting stuff on the mandolin. So interesting watching the freeze drier videos.Cog hill has been freezing things also. Man wish one of these were in my budget.
Kevin and Rachel this Old Lady loves making hot sauce with cut up hot dogs it I use four different hot peppers but this year I haven't made any because I couldn't find cayenne pepper seeds which I love so hopefully I'll find seeds or plants next year I use hot peppers in meatloaf chili fried potatoes eggs many many other things God Bless you both Kevin use gloves I've learned the hard way as I did breathing the smell be careful
If you like chow chow it's a relish you can make with green tomatoes and you can put some of your jalapeños it it and can it. It's usually eaten with beans or just as a side to meats. You can put red peppers in it to give a little color. I'm sure you can find the recipe it's been years since I've made it. You can also make pepper jelly, these are southern ideas from Kentucky, Tennessee and further south. You can also take your jalapeños slice them in half stuff them with cream cheese and wrap in bacon and either grill or bake until jalapeños are tender. Similar to jalapeño poppers.
Hello from northeast Georgia! I always have a jar of chow chow in my fridge to eat with “soup beans” (Great Northern Beans), Pinto Beans, etc. and Cornbread. I prefer mild instead of hot, though, and I always soak dried beans to cook. I used to use freshly ground meal for my cornbread, but learned that White Lilly Buttermilk Cornbread mix is just as good, or better, so I use it 100% of the time now. In fact, I made cornbread in an iron skillet for supper tonight.
Those cherry peppers are great stuffed with goat cheese or cream cheese and marinated in garlic infused olive oil
Awesome thank you for showing us.
I'm not really able to eat hot peppers. But doing tomatoes and green peppers 🤤 yummy. Meatloaf is my favorite. Mango salsa, hummus too the list is endless.
The big thing now is freeze dried candy...M&M candy, skittles....the list is endless on types of candy that can be freeze dried. Demonstrate some of this on your video! I think this is why the option of freeze drying is becoming more to the forefront again. The candy comes in the mylar sealed bags. From a dangerously hot and dry SE Kansas 🌻.
The jalapeno peppers are really good made into a relish and put on breaded catfish. 😋
Great video. I love jalapenos. I make Cowboy candy with them.
Thanks for sharing.
Cog Hill freeze dryer some candies bit of honey. Brooke like the crunchy instead of chewy original.
Look up "cowboy candy" for the jalapeño. Very easy to pickle cherry peppers. Yum!
I'd be making jalapeño relish with them.
Bless your heart just watched you prep the first tray with peppers wish I was there to tell you put on gloves😢
That is soooooo cool. I heard you could do eggs in a freeze dryer but never knew how. Thanks for showing the instructional video 👍♥️😋
i wish i had one because i would love it
Cowboy candy is something my daughter makes from Jalapeños each year! Great on a block of cream cheese and chips and crackers
That's really cool 😎
I can imagine how hot those peppers are. And I'm sure the juice goes thru your skin and fingers. Careful not too touch your face, oh boy! And I like the idea to wear a mask if it stops the eyes from burning.
I'm a sissy about hot foods, but I do like peppers in corn bread. Jalapeño jelly is also good on cornbread, on cream cheese and spread on crackers.
Cowboy candy, sweet sliced jalapeños
Homemade Pork Green Chili
Gloves, mask & goggles when working with fresh jalapeños
Thanks for the video.
You might like to put date on the jar lids
In Alabama we make pepper sauce. That Is putting whole or sliced or sliced peppers in a jar and add hot vinegar in jar with a half teaspoon of plain sat. Add tips and rings to seal. Eat them whole. Love peppers.
Your big bird love the hot peppers. Give some to the bjge birds. The hotel the better
Very good video. Thank you for the good information and suggestions. I would recommend a very large funnel when filling the jars. I cut a 4 gallon water jug in half. Turn the top half upside down and you have a very large mouth funnel that will fit canning jars. I use a stick as a pusher to pack bulky things into the jar, or even plastic sou vied bags. Thank you.
You can freeze dry bell peppers, powder them, and then you have paprika 😊
I made them into poppers for my husband and and frozen them in vacuum sealed bags .