The 7up Experience

Hey there, I just tried this with red peppers and my gas cooktop. Mine are sitting covered with plastic wrap. I will have to try it with hot peppers.

I've been wondering about doing this with an electric stovetop. I've read/heard about using gas burners, but never an electric so hadn't gotten up the nerve to try with mine...was afraid that I'd somehow mess up the element. Thanks for the info...I'm going to do it!!

Glad to here. It's really simple. Every couple of days I make my dad's hot sauce recipe for my hubby. The only time I ever messed up a burner was when I was mixing something in a plastic bowl after I turned off the burner and was smelling the plastic. Talk about smelling that---yuck.

I use the stove top myself (though I have a gas stove). Seems doing it on the burner itself would be a bit of unnecessary trouble however. I strategically slice and seed the pepper such that it can be "unrolled" to lay flat if squooshed down exposing all sides at once to the heat. I crank up the burner (could be either electric or gas here) to a medium high heat at least with a wide flat bottomed frying pan on it - empty until nice an hot. I lay my pepper skin side down then put a heavy stockpot on top to hold the pepper flat and forget about it. It sizzles and chars in no time. No mess.

Definitely a good way to char chiles. However, if it is nice outside, I prefer to go out on the deck and char them on my gas grill--pierce the chiles, toss them on the grill on high heat and let them go. I toss them in a paper bag and let them steam in there a while. Good for whatever kind of chiles, but my favorite for this method is the Anaheim types!

WOW both really good comments Jeff and Princetonmom. Now I hadn't even thought about rolling out the pepper and sticking it under a pan on the burner....I will try thanks.

Let me tell you, the way to char a pepper is on a George Foreman grill! When I make homemade hot sauce, I grill the peppers and the tomatoes and they are perfect, every time! Easy to get out, use, and clean up in minimum time!

I have a better idea instead of poking the peppers with Jalapenos with a fork. What you can do is ise some tongs like you use for cooking hot dogs to flip the Jalapenos. I think that might help with keeping the juices inside the Jalapeno so they don't come off all messy from juices leaking out on yer stove top. I tryed cooking some Jalapenos on a BBQ and they turned out nice. I didn't try one, beings I am not too much of a SPICY foods person, but my dad sure liked them. So I might try the tongs, like I said, and or also trying also a BBQ if you have one. Good luck on yer future recipes!! - Zack L

oops... darn them typos!! I meant 'use' some tongs... not ise

Hey there plw. the George Foreman grill sounds like the way to go. Thanks for the suggestion.

My dad chars red peppers with his blow torch! He sits at the edge of the garage with the door open and does it that way. It works great!