• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Friday, June 20, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Off-Grid Foods

The Smart And Simple Way To Pickle Hot Peppers

by Priscilla Cash
in Off-Grid Foods
Print Print
The Smart And Simple Way To Pickle Hot Peppers

Image source: Pixabay.com

Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article
The Smart And Simple Way To Pickle Hot Peppers
Image source: Pixabay.com

Fermented hot peppers offer a delicious tang and bite. The component capsaicin gives hot peppers their invigorating bite and it comes with health benefits, like boosting the body’s metabolism. It also produces an endorphin rush after the burning sensation passes.

Picking hot peppers directly from plants and using them in dishes is wonderful during the summer months, but how do you keep the delights of hot peppers around once the gardening and harvest seasons have ended? Fermentation, my friend.

Peppers Are Hot

Hot peppers are, well, hot, so it’s important to prepare properly before you begin processing them. Capsaicin is an oil, so water don’t clear it off of hands well. Instead, water tends to spread it around, causing the burning to be even worse. It’s easy to accidentally touch other things before your hands are completely free of the pepper oil and you can end up with your nose and eyes burning. Just imagine if you took a bathroom break partway through processing peppers.

So, protection beforehand is key. Cut up your peppers while wearing gloves. Don’t touch them to any part of your exposed skin (arms, eyes, etc.). You might spritz some oil on you and, of course, your skin will cry a little, but don’t, don’t, don’t scratch with your gloves. It will spread the burning. When done cutting, pull your gloves off carefully and put them promptly in the trashcan.

It’s also important to remember that hot peppers can cause issues with breathing. You can use a bandanna knotted around your mouth and nose to protect you, or better yet, pick up a disposable dust mask from the hardware store. If you are asthmatic or have other breathing issues, it might be better to consider asking someone else to process your hot peppers for you.

Make ‘Off-The-Grid’ Super Foods Just Like Grandma Made!

If you do get some pepper oil on you, which will invariably happen even with being careful, milk is the best remedy. Soak your fingers in milk and wash them slowly in it. If your nose burns, wad up a tissue, drench with milk, and stick it in your nose for about five minutes. Hold a tissue or paper towel drenched with milk onto any burning spots for a couple of minutes. The milk loosens the capsaicin and makes it easier to remove. Olive oil also works in a similar way. Whatever you do, don’t try to rub the burning spot with your fingers or wash with soap and water right away. The water feels cool at first, but tends to wash the burning around.

Starting the Fermentation

The Smart And Simple Way To Pickle Hot Peppers
Image source: Pixabay.com

Fermenting peppers is very simple. Start with a clean jar, preferably one with a large opening. You can also use a bowl. Wash your peppers. You can cut them in smaller pieces or leave them whole. I cut mine in half. If you leave them whole, they will still ferment, but it will take longer.

Once your jar or bowl is full, make up your salt-water brine: 1 pint (2 cups) of water to 1 and ¼ tablespoons of salt. Double this recipe as many times as you need to in order to get enough brine to thoroughly cover your peppers. Dissolve the salt entirely in the water. You can use heat to do this or just beat the water and salt with a whisk until the salt disappears. If you do use heat, make sure your brine has cooled down to room temperature before you proceed with the next step.

Could Famine And Hunger Come To America?

Pour your brine over your peppers. Fermentation takes place at room temperature, and so does mold growth. In order to keep your peppers from molding, you need to make sure they are completely submerged beneath the brine. Find a smaller jar or cup or canning weight and set this inside your jar of peppers. This needs to be heavy enough to keep your peppers from floating. Then fill the jar the rest of the way with brine. If you are able to, you can place a lid on your jar now. However, this isn’t necessary. As long as the peppers are submerged, they will be fine.

Place your jar in an out-of-the-way spot, but someplace you can check on it regularly. It can take anywhere from two to three weeks for the peppers to be ready. Check your peppers every day or so, especially if you have placed a lid on your jar as it will need burped (so it doesn’t explode). If scum appears at the top of your peppers, just skim it off with a spoon and make a little more brine to top the jar off with.

Then just wait and taste in about two to three weeks. Once the peppers are done fermenting, you can take out the weight, cap the jar and refrigerate. Fermented peppers last a long time in the refrigerator (three to six months or longer). Some people pour off the brine and boil it before pouring it back into the jar. It’s not necessary, but certainly okay. Or, instead, you can pour off the brine and cover your peppers in oil. You can add whatever spices in you wish as well. Some options are mustard seeds, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, sea salt, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, etc. The ideas are endless.

And now, the fun part: Enjoy!

Do you have advice for making fermented pickled hot peppers? Share your tips in the section below:

Harness The Power Of Nature’s Most Remarkable Healer: Vinegar

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

Is Big Ag Hijacking Organic to Push GMOs?

Is Big Ag Hijacking Organic to Push GMOs?

by Bill Heid

The New Marketing Move From Chemicals to “Biologicals” In a shrewd display of marketing opportunism, Big Agribusiness has shifted its...

How Aging And Eating Processed Foods Dramatically Lowers Crucial Digestive Enzymes Levels

How Aging And Eating Processed Foods Dramatically Lowers Crucial Digestive Enzymes Levels

by Bill Heid

Feeling Sluggish Because You’re Low on Enzymes? We often talk about vitamins and minerals when discussing health, but enzymes—the tiny...

Why Heirloom Beans Are A Legacy Worth Preserving

Why Heirloom Beans Are A Legacy Worth Preserving

by Bill Heid

Heirloom beans are not just a nutritious ingredient in modern kitchens… they are living relics of human history and a...

Next Post
The 'Slow Fade' Of Compromising On Sin

The 'Slow Fade' Of Compromising On Sin

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

ashley doomsday castle

Female Preppers Face Unique Challenges, Says Doomsday Castle’s Ashley

doomsday castle

SNEAK PEEK: Cast Of Nat Geo’s New Show ‘Doomsday Castle’ Stress Survival

How Fungi Use Mind-Control To Manipulate Their Hosts

How Fungi Use Mind-Control To Manipulate Their Hosts

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

Privacy Policy   Terms & Conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.