Anton Schoenbacher wrote: > When you make crushed pepper flakes, how do you crush them. <<snip>> I break up the peppers - make sure they are really dry, maybe a last minute ride in your oven - into a blender and whiz 'em up. Sometimes I have to shake the blender jar around a bit to introduce everyone to the blades. The dust that rises out of that blender can be brutal. In my case, I do this operation on the porch and use extreme caution when sniffing the powder. Ya, I did it the first time in the kitchen and then took a big sniff out of the blender. It was December and we opened the windows.... When we want a real fine powder, we run it through a seive and re-whiz the stuff left in the seive with a bit of the powder. Hobby Farmer