Clean 'em up (Ajvar Chronicles, part IX)

This part is explained quite easily as the title of this blog entry pretty much says it all: get all the paprikas and eggplants clean! Apart from sand you'd rather not want to have in your ajvar, it's also important to cut out the bad parts of the paprikas before you get them roasted. That's it! Now, let's have a look at some photos from this stage.

Cleaning of paprika before they're getting roasted.

Extra cleaning and drying of paprikas before they're off to the grill.

Quality control of the paprikas. Making ajvar appears to be a delicate process. If bad paprikas are put on the grill, allegedly the ajvar will be of poor quality. Hence the importance of maintenance of quality control.