On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:50:40 +0430, Dave Smith >
wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:44:13 -0700 (PDT), bruce bowser
> wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 4:06:05 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2021-06-09 3:48 p.m., Thomas wrote:
>>> > Have a load of garden fresh green oregano.
>>> > How do i get rid of leaf stems? I can run the main stems by hand to get the oregano off but still have the smaller leaf stems.
>>> > Looking to dehydrate. Maybe a way after dried?
>>> >
>>> Just hang it up and let it dry. Then put it in large plastic bag. I once
>>> bought oregano like that in an Italian supermarket. I just had to give
>>> the bag a little squeeze and a bunch of the dried leaves would crumble
>>> and could be easily poured out of the bag.

>>In the years before plastic bags were invented, I wonder how they did it.

Best to dry herbs in a brown paper bag, in plastic the liquid can't
readily escape and the leaves will become moldy. I don't dry oregano
but I dry lots of curly leaf parsley in brown paper grocery bags.
Naturally there's a lot more flavor in the fresh leaves. An
alternative is simply to freeze the herbs. A quick method for
drying/preserving herbs is to layer them in an open container of
kosher salt.