Drying Chillies

I have dried a number of Joe Long Cayenne chillies in the oven at 80’C for about 4-5 hours, then took them out and let them cool down, they seem to have darkened in colour and taken on a smoky aroma. I ground them in my coffee mill and they worked out very well. Lovely chilli/cayenne powder. 

 My question is some of you use dehydrator I know SC does, someone has suggested to me to use the air fryer with temperature turned down, has anybody ever done this ?, if so at what temperature and roughy for how long ?

They do have a smoky note when done in the oven, very nice. Never tried an air fryer.

They do have a smoky note when done in the oven, very nice. Never tried an air fryer.

What temperature do you use in the dehydrator?

Here you go.

https://www.excaliburdehydrator-recipes....li-powder/

Cayenne chillies tend to have thin skins. I just leave them in the kitchen spread out whole on a tray and they end up dry enough. They wouldn't pulverise but are fine chopped up to use. I'm still using some from a couple of years ago, transferred into an air tight jar after a while. Pretty sure the seeds would sprout from them if I sowed them.

Experiment of drying lemonella chillies in the air fryer, so in for an hour at 80’C as thats  the max. time settings on the air fryer

   

   

Update

After 1 hour in the air fryer at 80’C

   

After 2 hours at 80’C

   

After 3 hours at 80’C

   

My oven drying chillies

Killian chillies
   
Yellow Bumpy 
   
Apple crisp
   
Hungarian hot wax & apricot
   
Capsicum Annuum 
   
Joe’s Long Cayenne 
   

Finally finished except for the Apple crisp and the Hungarian hot wax, just put them into the air fryer for an hour.

Lemonella after nearly 6 hours in the air fryer 5 hrs at 80’C and 1 hour at 100’C to finish off the larger ones which browned them.
   

Killian after nearly 6 hours in the oven, at slow cook temperature which I thought was 80’C turns out to be 100’C. They look and smell fantastic 
   

Apricot after nearly 6 hours at 100’C
   

Apple crisp and Hungarian hot wax gone into the air fryer after 6 hours in the oven
   

Capsicum Annuum after 6 hours in the oven at 100’C, smell delightful 
   

Joe’s Long Cayenne nicely roasted after 6 hours at 100’C lovely smoked smell off them
   

Yellow Bumpy after 6 hours at 100’C
   

i have ground up my dried chillies very successfully at least I think they are successful.

I have the Joe’s Long Cayenne, the Capsicum Annuum, the Killian, the lemonella and the yellow bumpy.

   

Happy with this years experiment plenty of chilli powders and a good crop in the freezer, still some green ones on the plants in the tunnel, if they ripen they’re going in the freezer.