How To Dry Pepper/Dehydrate Pepper In a Dehydrator

  In the world have more than 2000 kinds of pepper with different spiciness and hotter. Peppers are loved by people all over the world because of their rich minerals and rich nutrition. Pepper can be eaten fresh or dried. Pepper can make food more delicious and inviting. It is also an essential condiment for making a hot pot, barbecue, and other foods. How many peppers you can eat at a time depends on how spicy the peppers are and how much you like them. If you want to taste the deliciousness of pepper at any time, drying pepper is a good way. If stored properly, dried peppers can be store for months or even a year. When the pepper harvest season, if cant is dried in a short time, the pepper will be serious damaged by mildew and rotten. The pepper drying processing includes fresh pepper picking, transportation, and storage, drying, picking, packaging, and storage. Here are two ways to learn how to dry peppers.

1. How to dry pepper at home?

Sunlight Drying
This is the most traditional and most used way to dry peppers at home.
1:Pick peppers. This is an important stage of drying peppers, which can directly affect the quality of dried peppers. Choose peppers that are free from pests and disease. Also need to have a smooth surface. Green peppers have high moisture content and are not easy to dry, so we need to choose red peppers.
2:Pay attention to the weather. Watch the weather and see which day is sunny. It usually takes more than two consecutive days of sunny. This information can be obtained from the website or on the TV.
3:Wash the peppers. Use running water to clean the epidermis and stalks of the peeper. Then put it in the strainer to remove excess water.
4:There are two methods for this step. First, hang it to dry. String the peppers together with a string. Remember not too dense, so that it is well ventilated and easy to dry. If you don’t do this, the peppers will not only be difficult to dry but also easy to rot. Second, place the peppers evenly on the ground or the newspaper.
5:Put the stringed peppers in a place where they cannot be exposed to direct sunlight at noon. Be careful not to expose it to strong light, otherwise, it will burn the peppers and cause discoloration. Dry for 12 hours then takes it back into the house. After the water seeps out from the surface of the pepper, expose it to the sun for 2 hours. The second method is to put the peppers placed underground or on newspapers in the sun for a few hours. Because the pepper cannot receive the sun evenly under the ground or on newspapers, it needs to be turned repeatedly until both sides of the pepper are dried. Note that you can lay a net on the pepper to avoid flies and insects. 

2. How to dry pepper step by step in oven?

  The key steps of the pepper drying process are as follows:
1. Stacking thickness
The stacking thickness of pepper should be 20~30 cm. The stacking is too thin, has good air permeability and low wind resistance. Although it is beneficial to heat exchange, the contact time between hot air and pepper is relatively short, and the heat utilization rate is low. If it is too thick, the resistance will increase too much, the hot air cannot penetrate the material layer, and the drying effect will be poor.
Second, the choice of temperature
The value of hot air temperature for pepper drying is related to the quality and drying efficiency. Try to analyze the composition of the pepper and the influence of several main components at a certain temperature. The temperature of the pepper dryer can be adjusted from 20 to 80°C; the segmented drying method is adopted, which is currently the superior method of pepper drying.
Three, section drying
Segmented drying is currently a superior method for drying pepper, that is the pepper with a moisture content of 75%-85% are dried for the first time until the moisture content of the pepper is 50%, and then they are dried for the second time.
Stepping on the pile and sweating is a very important step in the pepper drying process.  The main function of stepping on the pile and sweating is to condition and make the pepper oil penetrate the surface. After drying, the color of the pepper is consistent, ruddy, and smooth, and the moisture content of the pepper tends to be balanced. If you don’t step on the pile to sweat, it will take 63 hours to dry 1000 kg of pepper and the hot air temperature is 40℃-60℃. After stepping on the pile, the sweat can be shortened to about 40 hours, and the yellow husks will be significantly reduced. After the second drying is completed, super high-quality dried pepper products can be obtained.

Recommendation of pepper dehydrator/drying machine

1:Large amount of dehydration 200-5000kg/h pepper drying machine continuous automatic work easy operation
Pepper Dryer Machine is a kind of continuous production drying equipment, the main heating way has electric heating, steam heating, hot air heating. Its main working principle is to spread the material evenly in the network. The material is moved in the dryer by the operation of the machine, and the hot air draws out the water vapor of the material. so as to achieve the purpose of drying.
The operation temperature is 40-120 degree centigrade. And the dry cycle is 1-5 hours.


2:Household Commercial 100-3000kg/h All-in-one drying equipment without installation for any material
  Drying essence is take moisture away, but takes away the moisture temperature is not the most critical factor. The key for drying is depending on relative humidity within certain space, Baixin Company took advantage of the dry essence, originality developed a "Closed Cycle" dryer, changed the traditional heat pump dryer "bake" to "dehumidifier”. Its several advantages were unmatched by the traditional heat pump dryer.
   Baixin Food Dehydrator has a compact structure, great energy-saving, wide application, high drying quality, easy operation, simple installation and removable. it is the best drying equipment for small firms, drying experiment and scientific research. The users only connect the power to use, is the easiest operation heat pump dryer.

The heat pump drying machine is Commercial All-in-one universal drying equipment without installation,suitable for 85% of food vegetable fruit mature material.This kind of dryer has the advantages of easy operation low cost clean and sanitary small area occupy.
1:Applicable：Vegetable,fruit,meat,seafood,agricultural ,noodle,wooden
2:Output：100-3000kg/h
3:Heat pump model:1P/2P/3P/6P/8P/10P/15P/20P/30P/40P/60P
4:Drying time:Depends on different drying materials
5:Core advantages:Energy saving and environmental protection, simple or without installation, easy operation operation, wide application for food vegetable fruit dryer，small area occupy

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