Jebediah Kornworthy wrote:

> Here is my thought. I want to buy some whole Chipotle peppers
> and devain and deseed them myself. Since the peppers are dried I was
> wondering if there is any special tips or advice I could garner? Do you
> devain and deseed them dry or do you rehydrate them? I don't want to
> rehydrate them myself. Maybe a small knife or X-ACTO knife?

Won't work. When the peppers are dried the heat is throughout the chile.
You can only tame them when perfectly fresh.

-sw