I picked up a small West Bend coffee grinder for crushing/grinding peppers at Costco for a mere $10.00 Works great! You can chop them coarsely or fine. Seems as though most discount stores like K-Mart, Target or Wal-Mart would have them at a reasonable price. >I have a lot of dried peppers and would like to find a relatively simple way >to crush them. I don't have a fancy kitchen...the usual blender,food >processor..... >It does not have to be powder fine just crushed like the store stuff. http://members.freehp.net/suz ("`-'-/").___..--''"`-._ Suz, `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) aka (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' the katj _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'