

Optional: If desired, you can add salt, onion powder, garlic powder or other spices to "water" down the heat and extend the powder for longer use. We usually get a combination of powder and flakes when we use our food processor, which all works for us! You can grind it to a fine powder, or you can also leave it less grinded to use as pepper flakes. We recommend doing it outdoors, and to put a damp towel over the coffee grinder or processor to keep the dust at a minimum, it's crazy stuff! You can even wear a mask! Keep the dust from getting into your eyes and nose. You can use a coffee grinder, a mortar and pestle, or even a food processor.

You may also be able to find some super hot peppers at the specialty grocer or local farmer's market and stands if you're lucky! This also works to make any type of hot chile powder, so habaneros and jalapenos and other peppers work, too, they're just not as hot as the Reaper. Carolina Reapers are ripe after they turn nice and red (or yellow when growing the Yellow Carolina Reaper.) If you you can't grow your own, find a gardening friend to grow them.

You can also make powder from any chile. including hot peppers or sweet peppers like the famous Paprika pepper. Step 1: Pick your ripe Carolina Reapers you grew from seed.Here is our Carolina Reaper Powder Recipe – it's easy to make powder from any of your super hot peppers, here's how: They're way too hot! While Carolina Reapers can't kill you, using too much can definitely make your head feel like it's burning off! So, since a little bit goes a long way, we think the best way to preserve our Carolina Reaper chile pepper harvest for year-round use is by drying out your chiles and making Carolina Reaper Powder! If you grow Carolina Reapers, you probably aren't going to eat them whole.
