Herb Drying Extended
[herb drying extended]
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Answering Benji in an extension to my last post on the topic!
best method, best tea
depending on the herb you use to make your tea, any of the three methods i talked about can work just fine for making a tea blend from.
it's most a matter of time as each method and plant have a different time span of drying out.
air drying by hanging is likely the longest but is most commonly used for flowering herbs like lavender or even sage, mainly for the lingering scent they give off while hanging.
you could very well use the microwave method for a faster batch of dried herbs.
when it comes to the herb youre using for tea, leaves and buds could be crushed up or steeped whole, so regardless of the method you choose however you go about making your tea from dried herbs is fine and completely up to you.
of course things like how ling they sit to dry and loose theor moisture can effect how they might taste when sitting in hot water but not by very much, the amount of time they sit in the water can be recommended differently depending on the plant or part of said plant as well.
its perfectly fine to experiment until you find the right combination that you like best.
there are plenty of other methods for drying tea herbs as well, some onclude the oven rather than the microwave or the stove, or you can use tools like a dehydrator if you have one. no one method is best over all, its very much up to opinion.
whatever method you find best is a-okay.
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how can herbs expire after storing and drying if the idea is to do that so they last longer?
a lot of things have a different length of shelf life, canned goods included.
if you dont keep your herbs tightly seald and stored awat from sunlight and moisture, you risk them rotting amd molding. they are dead plants after all and dead plants do eventually rot away at some point.
the average shelf life for dried leafy herbs is 1-3 years before it looses its flavor, 4 years for seeds and a week to 6 months for fresh (ground) spices. salt is really the only thing that lasts indefinitely.
after the dried herbs loose their flavor theres really no use keeping them around as anything with them will just taste bland or very very mild if at all.
the herbs will start to lose their colour and brown after being stored for that long so its best to throw them away at the 3 year mark.
i hope this helped! if theres anything else i can expand on please let me know.
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