I have been having good luck with just taking whole dried chiles and pulverizing them in my Cuisnart Mini-Prep Processor. Because of the humidity here, I store the ground stuff in fridge in small plastic containers, and it lasts forever. That is not to say Jim's or anyone elses powders are bad. It is just that whole dried peppers seem to be easier to come by around these parts if you need powdered stuff in a pinch. Mark "Mad Dog" Barringer http://home.earthlink.net/~mdogdrum/index.html