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wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 5:55 pm Post subject: Lazy chilli
I'm starting to get lots of chillies, and I want to bottle them chopped in wine vinegar. Has anyone had a go? I'm the only one who eats them, and I often have to add them to taste at the table! I have a pressure canner, should it be deemed necessary.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 6:18 pm Post subject:
We chopped 'em up and bottled them with vodka the year we had a surplus. Preserves them fine and avoids adding vinegariness to things which may not need it.

frewen

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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 8:42 pm Post subject:
chilli vodka - I'm sure there's a market there somewhere?

sean
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 10:22 pm Post subject:
Ours was mostly chili with a little bit of vodka. Boy Wonder made a hazchem sticker for the jar.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 16 5:53 am Post subject:
We put ours whole straight in the freezer. They last for at least a year and don't lose their potency. Dunked in a small bowl of hot water they defrost in seconds.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
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Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 16 4:08 pm Post subject:
Ours dry just in the kitchen and can then be chopped or ground to add a pinch at a time - they take virtually no storage space and the potency can be adjusted.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 16 8:29 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

We chopped 'em up and bottled them with vodka the year we had a surplus. Preserves them fine and avoids adding vinegariness to things which may not need it.

That might work. Dare I open the garlic debate? Same thing, crushed in vinegar, not oil.

I did dry them one year, and choked myself on the fumes.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 16 10:37 pm Post subject:

chilli vodka is something of an extreme even for folk who like both.

i have found a few chillis to 100ml of vodka lasts ages as it only needs a few drops in a three person dish

hot garam is a good way to preserve them as there is a minimum of vinegar involved and it improves with age ,at the mo my two pots ,hot and very hot are about 6 yrs old(and i have another 5 of each from the same batch)

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https://forum.downsizer.net/about69083.html&highlight=hot+garam

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 16 10:57 pm Post subject:

one way of doing frozen is to fine chop a batch and freeze in a (dedicated) ice cube tray then bag the cubes for storage.

i have found air dried tends to lose the flavours and just leave the hot.

iirc tahir posted a chilli pickle recipe a while back that i keep meaning to try

the big fairly mild ones pickle ok in brine with a little vinegar to make "kebab"chillis

i tend to use quite a few as dried tomato,garlic n chilli pickle
equal wts of each
5 gms sea salt per hundred grams
30ml balsamic vinegar phg
boil 2 mins
bottle
fridge for a couple of weeks to mature
keeps ages in fridge

tis nice but wont absorb a glut of chillis unless you have a lot of the other ingredients

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