In this video i'm gonna show you how I make chili salt using the leftover mash from some of my favorite sauces and
it's a pretty simple process, but it is absolutely
Delicious, let's get started. This here is the leftover mash from my Nyami hot sauce
and I've processed it quite well with the food mill we've extracted most of the juices the sauce from it and
It was absolutely delicious and sold out pretty quickly on my store. These here are cooling racks
I was looking around for quite awhile for ones that were stackable because you'll see my drying system that I use
This will fit in just perfectly
basically, you can see what happens. These all stack up on top of each other and that means I can have multiple rows of
the mash on there drying out nice and easily
I'm just using plain old parchment paper. You can use baking paper
all that you're trying to do is stop it from falling through the holes and
It helps if it's kind of nonstick, which this is
Wow this smells good
Once you've laid it out onto the parchment then you just need to move it across to the tray
But there we go. One is done. No, we're just gonna do the rest and I'll be right back with you
This is all done. I'm going to show you how I'm gonna dry this
We're gonna take this over to our drying machine now
This is a machine that you would have seen in a previous video where I made biltong
But I'll explain pretty much the concept of how it works and in the future. I may be doing another another version of it
Just to show you how it's built. This here is my drying box or my biltong box
And essentially it's controlled with this up here. This is the Raspberry Pi that I'm using to control everything. This is just a display
So I can see what's going on inside here: temperature humidity that sort of thing.
There are two fans on top here that ges switched on
depending on when the Raspberry Pi decides based on the humidity levels inside and also outside because I am
Measuring temperature and humidity inside the device and outside the device. It just helps me to create a
perfect environment for the drying process
inside the box is just
There's just a bunch of these sort of things. So if I do want to hang things to dry, I can do that
So there's two rails one at the top and one at the middle over here
I've also got a rail down at the bottom there that I've created for the trays that I'm going to be putting in here
at the very bottom
Underneath that tin foil. There are two heat sources
I'm using two 100 watt incandescent light bulbs and that's basically going to be drawing air through some vents that are down the bottom
It's going to be removing the humidity from that air and that is going to rise and come out through the top
When there is too much humidity and it's not removing the moisture quick enough from here then the fans at the top kick in
Anyway, that's it. It's pretty basic
I will go into more detail about this if people are interested when I make another one
So let me know in the comments below if you want to see how this is built, but this is very versatile
And as you can see, it has a lot of room to dry a lot of stuff if you don't want to build your own
dehydrator then of course
You can go and buy a cheapy one like this and this is a cheapy one that I have. It does the job
It's fantastic. Just make sure that if you get one make sure that it can go down to about 40 degrees Celsius
I think that's around about 100 Fahrenheit and
That's because if you do want to save seeds in the future from your fresh peppers
Then you can use this for that purpose as well. So make sure you get one that can go to a lower temperature
Anyway, I'm going to show you what to do
if you are going to use one of these firstly take the inner bit out and I'll link to the one that I use the
dehydrator that I bought cut a piece of parchment same as we did before just to be the
Rough size of that and then we're going to just cut around it. So we have a rough circle
And then make sure you can see there's a hole in the middle
Make sure you leave a gap for the hole to do that: Just just fold it in half
And then in half again and
Just snip the corner
And that will leave a nice little hole in the middle so we're gonna put it back inside
The tray here
There we go
put that there and then we just layer on our
mash nice and easy
There we go
I'm gonna go and stack that on top of the dehydrator and I will see you in a few days time. Again
this will probably take about five days. But essentially you just want this to be
Dry dry dry so it crumbles when you touch it
It's been five days. It's time for us now to check on the chilli mash and see how we did with the drawing
So it smells good you can see that is just crumbling up
Which is just what you want
There you go
Typically, this is what I'd use to process my spices and it works fantastically if I'm doing batches for myself and my family then
This thing is just great. The problem is I have a lot of processing to do here. This thing would take forever
I would have to keep refilling it over and over and I'd probably burn up the motor
This is basically exactly the same thing as this just on a larger scale
The chili mash is all blended up and ready for us to start mixing. This machine did a fantastic job
it took about 10 seconds per load and
We had perfect consistency
Every time. It really is a time saver for myself when you're doing these larger batches
I ended up having to use a dust mask or this air filter thing because... my goodness
breathing in the powder, even though this isn't a really super hot sauce that this came from
Breathing that in - it's still no fun. So I would wear a mask something like this or some sort of dust mask
I'm sure you guys would probably have one at home
Let's get to mixing our spice and we're gonna fill up some of these jars
this is of course a chilli salt which means salt is the core ingredient and
If you're going to be doing this for yourself
You need to experiment with what works for you and for your particular chilli powder for me
The ratio I'm going with is nine part salt to one part chili mash or chilli powder
So let's get the salt in there. We're using a good quality
Himalayan rock salt
Nice and pink. I love the color.
That is 900 grams. Gonna zero this out again and then we add 100 grams of the chilli mash.
And there we go the first bottle is done
So it's time to give this a try. Chilli salt can be used in so many different things I'm having some on my egg here
Be careful not to add too much
There we go. And
Let's see what this tastes like
That's great - really tasty. So,
you can use this on pretty much anything that you need salt with that's pretty much most things another thing
This is really good for is to really spice up some of your chips or fries
Use this instead of salt when you're doing that on your on your fries and it'll take it to another level
There you go yet another use for your leftover mash
I've showed you a couple ways that you can use it now whether you're making a dry spice or you're putting it in the freezer
Inside ice trays and using is a spicy stock cube. There's so much goodness and flavor and spice still inside that mash
So it'd be a real shame to let it go to waste. I hope that you enjoyed this video
I hope that you go check out my shop. This is for sale now and I'm very keen to see what you guys think
Let me know in the comments below. If you do get yourself one. I want to hear your your thoughts on this. Thank you
So much for watching until the next video stay safe and stay spicy