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With the help of a professional food stylist, your kitchen’s herbs will keep their freshness for much longer. In this video, he shows you three methods for storing your herbs and offers his special insight on how to make them last longer both in the fridge and on the counter.
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00:00Here's how you should store your herbs. They don't turn into a bunch of mush. If you keep your herbs
00:03in clamshells like this, I can guarantee you they're going to go bad fast. They don't aerate,
00:08they're too small, and also there's no insulation. The next thing that's only going to give you nasty
00:13herbs is just keeping them in the bag that you bought them in and also leaving on any of these.
00:18The right way to do this. I'm going to take these off, do a quick inspection and make sure there's
00:22nothing totally slimy already in here. Take some paper towels, drop these in here. We're just going
00:27to roll it up. Doesn't have to be too tight and get a Ziploc. Zip this up and find a
00:31place that's
00:32not going to be too cold inside of your fridge. Another method for storing your herbs that I like,
00:36and especially for things like mint that really don't like to be too cold in your fridge, after
00:40trimming off the bottoms and revealing a nice fresh cut, simply storing them in some water on your
00:45countertop. Especially if you change your water every now and then, this can last at least a week
00:49or two and give you fresh herbs the whole time. If your herbs have gone limp, here's a quick way
00:53to
00:53bring them back to life. The salad spinner is one of my favorite methods to do this. Let's fill this
00:58up with some very cold water, with ice or without, and we're going to let the herbs soak in here
01:02until
01:02they look like they've come back to life. This could be five minutes, could be 30 minutes. So make sure
01:06you're planning ahead. And if you're concerned about waste using a method like this, just remember you
01:10can reuse your bag over and over again, and you can put more than one bunch of herbs into a
01:15Ziploc and
01:16it's going to keep your herbs, if you spend all that money on, lasting much longer.
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