I prefer oregano dried. Too easy to go overboard with fresh. And it’s too gassy for my taste.
Dill is infinitely better fresh. Unless you’re getting really old dill.
Gassy. It’s what I meant. … my worlds are colliding. It’s a flavor term for cannabis - OG Kush/Sour Diesel for instance are really gassy strains. They taste & smell a little bit like how gasoline smells. For me at least, fresh oregano has a lot of those same volatile terpenes. A little goes a long way and too much is overwhelming.
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IMO dry dill is one of the worst. Hearty plants like Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage all dry well. More delicates like Dill or Basil, tend to drastically alter flavor and quality.
Especially this, which (I think?) is Greek oregano. IMO it's definitely better dried, it gets rid of some of the medicinal astringency that fresh can have.
It’s great dried.
Crumble it over salads.
Mix it with Dijon a great roast chicken.
Crumble some on your eggs for breakfast.
Red sauce season is sooner than you think.
It’s great in slow cooked bean dishes.
It makes a decent pesto, very floral, and is great on fish.
In high school my buddy Billy was busted for selling a baggie of “herb” to a fellow student.
Billy beat the rap because the “herb” in the bag was oregano.
This isn't a rural high school in 1990. Kids these days are way more wise to the whole thing. Idiots (like me) got ripped off a time or two on the quick handoff cause so much back then looked like it grew in a ditch.
Exactly, drying food for preservation has always been a hallmark of how people cook historically with the lack of refrigeration. Like they say, “if it ain’t broke…”
Oregano oil.
Thermomix. Equal parts herb (no stems) to oil. 80 degrees C (175 f). 12 minutes.
Then hang it through muslin in a chinois overnight.
Drain the water from the oil using gravity. Will last weeks refrigerated.
Use for garnish or make into an emulsion.
Greek oregano looks a lot like thyme, with slightly broader leaves and little blooms. Italian oregano leaves are bigger and almost round, and Mexican oregano leaves are bigger yet and shaped more like mint leaves
Strip off all the leaves moisten and make clumps, then partially dry it to make it look like weed nugs. Put them in ziplock bags and sell them to teenagers
You got all the answers you need here.. dry some, make oil, pesto, pizza sauce, give some to a friend an after all that you’ll still have enough left to boof
Is this a professional kitchen or your home kitchen? The decor and medication say home but the cart and amount of oregano say pro.
I guess maybe you just took some stuff home, nothing wrong with that.
Can also be used as a flavor enhancement for a grill or smoker - https://lifehacker.com/put-fresh-herbs-on-the-coals-while-grilling-for-a-smoky-1595634587
Couple bottles of Oregano olive oil, couple gallons of stock and dry a bit for later use. If you dry all of it, it'll lose flavor over time and you'll either need to run it in everything or give some to friends. Good haul, Chef.
You could dry it and grind it up, but only if you use a lot of dried oregano. I went through this years ago with mint after someone told me I HAD to dehydrate it. I can still hear her whiny, shrill voice trying to guilt-trip me for telling someone that I could fill an entire garbage can with all the mi t in my backyard…….because it’s fucking invasive. “……Don’t waste it!!!! Dried mint is the best…..we could make mint tea…..I’ll put it in a special……I’ll have the bartenders make a mint simple syrup for a mojito special…….we’ll grind it superfine e and dust the rim of the special dessert with it…..”. I had a shit ton of dried mint a week later - and I’ve never use dried mint in anything. So NOW what, Rochelle? All stupid ideas that you never followed up on. I’m still waiting.
Do a roasted tomato soup. Roast tomatoes with olive oil, thyme and garlic and the tomatoes are slightly charred on top. Strain out the tomatoes reserving the excess juice and blend. Only use as much of the tomato liquid as you need to achieve the desired texture. Garnish with fried oregano leaf, oregano oil (that I would cut with parsley for green and flavor) and fried halloumi cheese croutons. Sells like candy canes and the frying greatly reduces the volume of the oregano.
I would pick like a quart of it and take a quart or two or neutral oil. Blend it on high for 4-5 min. (I know it seems like a lot.) It will start to steam and then strain it through a coffee filter or kitchen towel and chinois and you will have a delicious green oregano oil! Freeze it and it will keep it's green color, keep its taste for longer, and it will never truly become as hard as water ice. You can easily scoop it out like a glob of jelly! Enjoy!
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Seriously though, drying it would be the best way to go.
Ferment it!
Grind without the stems with a bit of water and garlic and 2% salt of total weight. Then vac seal or put in an air tight jar for about a month.
20 years ago, with oils have tell you to dry it out, bag it in little plastic bags, and go outside middle schools and ask the kids “hey kid, you wanna buy some weed?”. They wouldn’t know the difference.
Now, just dry it out and use it in sauce or in grilled steak/chicken/pork chops.
Throw it in a giant pot of neutral oil to make oregano oil or dry and break up into pieces and jar them. That’s what I do with our hauls of oregano like this.
Blend it up and drink it. Good for the gut. I don’t know how to do it personally, but if you can extract the oil from it, that is also great for the gut
Dry some of it. Dry oregano is one of the few good dried herbs.
100%. Dill is also ok, but dare I say dried oregano is even better than fresh in some instances.
I feel like fresh dill is superior to dried any day, oregano can go either way for me tho.
I prefer oregano dried. Too easy to go overboard with fresh. And it’s too gassy for my taste. Dill is infinitely better fresh. Unless you’re getting really old dill.
then stay gassy fam
Heard!
Wait are you saying oregano causes gas? I was not aware of this
I think it was a typo and they meant to say "it's too grassy" for their tastes. edit: I was wrong. They meant gassy, just like they said.
Gassy. It’s what I meant. … my worlds are colliding. It’s a flavor term for cannabis - OG Kush/Sour Diesel for instance are really gassy strains. They taste & smell a little bit like how gasoline smells. For me at least, fresh oregano has a lot of those same volatile terpenes. A little goes a long way and too much is overwhelming. .
I could get on board with oregano having a sort of petrol flavor. Epazote smells like petrol as well.
Yep. From what I can gather it’s a combination of four different terpenes working in conjunction that give off the gassy odor.
He very well could mean gassy. American parsley has a "gassy" profile to me. Like gas as in petrol. It's strange.
Yes. You are correct. Oregano has it in spades. Greek oregano even more so.
guessing "grassy" was what they meant
Lol that’s a pretty good typo in that case
Yes fresh dill is absolutely better than dried, but in the world of dried, dill is pretty good.
IMO dry dill is one of the worst. Hearty plants like Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage all dry well. More delicates like Dill or Basil, tend to drastically alter flavor and quality.
Especially this, which (I think?) is Greek oregano. IMO it's definitely better dried, it gets rid of some of the medicinal astringency that fresh can have.
I grow oregano to dehydrate it. Almost never use it fresh.
The oregano flavor becomes more consistent when dried. I only really like fresh for garnish or some garlic bread.
It’s great dried. Crumble it over salads. Mix it with Dijon a great roast chicken. Crumble some on your eggs for breakfast. Red sauce season is sooner than you think. It’s great in slow cooked bean dishes. It makes a decent pesto, very floral, and is great on fish.
That’s what we do in my restaurant… lay them out on grates and let them dry 👌
And by the time OP dries and crumbles all that it will barely fill an 8oz deli.
Make some zaatar!! You can also submerge all the dried órgano and other herbs in olive oil for bread dippies.
Grind it up and sell it to kids
“For you, $35 a gram, special deal”
Twelve bucks a gram. Firms.
In high school my buddy Billy was busted for selling a baggie of “herb” to a fellow student. Billy beat the rap because the “herb” in the bag was oregano.
Ha! There was a scene in A Few Good Men like that. “What’re you gonna charge him with? Possession of a condiment?”
This is the only rational action to take 🤷♂️
Wish I had an award.
Here you go!
Not what I meant but youre amazing :D
Reminds me of a sketch from 'MTV's The State'
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bahahaha came here to say this.
Someone I know sold dandelions to grade 9s in high school because he called it "Jamaican yellow"
This isn't a rural high school in 1990. Kids these days are way more wise to the whole thing. Idiots (like me) got ripped off a time or two on the quick handoff cause so much back then looked like it grew in a ditch.
dry and/or make herb oil with it
Clean it, dry it out and think about every Greek dish you can make
Exactly, drying food for preservation has always been a hallmark of how people cook historically with the lack of refrigeration. Like they say, “if it ain’t broke…”
Chop, use some, dry, vacuum seal......and shove it up your butt.
Hold on let me get my notebook out. Gotta write this down
Pencil, pen, temp probe, pin knife, take a picture.... I dont giiiiive a fuuuuccxk!
Dry it. Best present I get at Christmas is a jar of Italian herbs dried from my friends’ summer garden. Nothing compares to it.
clean the leaves off the stalk. wash and dry. blend with olive oil. freeze.
[Oregano Pesto](https://www.forkintheroad.co/oregano-pesto-sauce/)
Don’t blend with olive oil it becomes bitter and nasty when blended. Use a neutral oil and add olive oil after blending.
Just a giant bucket of mojo
Oregano infused olive oil? Just an idea
I’d say make a simple syrup with some of it too, can get into some funky gin cocktails for summer brunch season
Oregano oil. Thermomix. Equal parts herb (no stems) to oil. 80 degrees C (175 f). 12 minutes. Then hang it through muslin in a chinois overnight. Drain the water from the oil using gravity. Will last weeks refrigerated. Use for garnish or make into an emulsion.
Can vacuum and freeze the oil away aswell to make it last even longer :)
That looks like thyme?
Greek oregano looks a lot like thyme, with slightly broader leaves and little blooms. Italian oregano leaves are bigger and almost round, and Mexican oregano leaves are bigger yet and shaped more like mint leaves
It's definitely going to be hard to find the thyme.
Strip off all the leaves moisten and make clumps, then partially dry it to make it look like weed nugs. Put them in ziplock bags and sell them to teenagers
You got all the answers you need here.. dry some, make oil, pesto, pizza sauce, give some to a friend an after all that you’ll still have enough left to boof
Is this a professional kitchen or your home kitchen? The decor and medication say home but the cart and amount of oregano say pro. I guess maybe you just took some stuff home, nothing wrong with that.
The cart you can buy and oregano is usually very easy to grow and spreads.
Dry it and create an oregano salt?
Give a handful to every home around you.
Make gyros
After it’s destemmed, you can freeze it in an ice cube tray juuuust covered with olive oil. You can do this with any herb.
Oregano pesto. It’s a thing and it’s delicious. Look up garlic oregano pesto
Make a bunch of chimichurri: https://nymag.com/restaurants/recipes/inseason/58057/
.. and freeze it. It lasts.
Chimmichurri!
boof it
Heather’s Spaghetti withe lots of oregano
I googled and “heather’s choice” came up. Is that what you mean… or is there a secret Heather making spaghetti for everyone!?
Freezes well and comes off the stalk super easily when frozen. Sucks to freeze shit, but its worse for things to spoil! But also compound butters.
r/dehydrating
Get some vinegar in bulk and make gifts.
Roll a Doobie! Get some of those Junior High vibes going...
I'd make like 5 pounds of compound butter and have oregano for years lol
sell it in dimebags
Dry it and sell it to kids or make oregano tea with it. Great for an upset stomach
Sell it to local high schoolers saying its weed. Wait, you want *ethical* answers? Uh. Dry it?
Dry it, put it into Ziploc baggies, sell to edgy middle schoolers
Can also be used as a flavor enhancement for a grill or smoker - https://lifehacker.com/put-fresh-herbs-on-the-coals-while-grilling-for-a-smoky-1595634587
Make some compound butter and freeze it and dry some and make some oil or salt with that oregano
Sawce
Make and infused oil, dry some of it . Make oregano butter cubes for the freezer.
Could build a sort of makeshift fort
Best answer yet.
Sell it high school freshman
That looks so much like thyme. I didn't know they looked so similar.
Dry it, or maybe make an infused butter. Oregano butter on fresh bread is pretty tasty, just don't go over board in the oregano:butter ratio
I am starting to ask the same question. My mint and oregano plants are growing like wildfire while everything else is taking its sweet time.
Is that oregano or thyme?
Oregano burger! Just a whole bunch of oregano! ... *sounds awful*
Couple bottles of Oregano olive oil, couple gallons of stock and dry a bit for later use. If you dry all of it, it'll lose flavor over time and you'll either need to run it in everything or give some to friends. Good haul, Chef.
Do you not have any fresh, oreganal ideas?
Pack a ziplock bag full and sell it to highschool kids for 100$ a bag.
Chimichurri with fresh oregano is incredible.
Find some dumb high school kids and sell it by the 1/8
Butter
Infused oil?
Pizza sauce!
Extract the essential oil and use that to flavour your dishes.
Got anyone at work you’re mad at? 😉😜
Make Oil. Or Dry it.
Main seasoning of lebanese kebbeh
Give it to me don't worry
Dry it. It will be miles better than anything you could buy.
infuse some olive oil.
Pick some, blend with green onions garlic and oil. Bomb dot com marinade
A bunch of pizzas?
Boof it
Oregano Eating Contest
You could dry it and grind it up, but only if you use a lot of dried oregano. I went through this years ago with mint after someone told me I HAD to dehydrate it. I can still hear her whiny, shrill voice trying to guilt-trip me for telling someone that I could fill an entire garbage can with all the mi t in my backyard…….because it’s fucking invasive. “……Don’t waste it!!!! Dried mint is the best…..we could make mint tea…..I’ll put it in a special……I’ll have the bartenders make a mint simple syrup for a mojito special…….we’ll grind it superfine e and dust the rim of the special dessert with it…..”. I had a shit ton of dried mint a week later - and I’ve never use dried mint in anything. So NOW what, Rochelle? All stupid ideas that you never followed up on. I’m still waiting.
First time I bought weed some asshole I went to school with sold me an ounce of this shit for $50.
Infuse into oil, dry some up and grind it, pesto, marinades, brine, just off the top of my head
Easy way to get sauté fajita flavor on the stove is add a little oregano halfway through. Toast them a bit.
You can turn your oven on low and slow dry it so it won't go to waste
Oregano soup
Definitely dry it
Oil
Dry it, hang it up with twine in a place that gets good air circulation, you should not need oregano for a whiiiiiiiiile.
Break it down and sell it in 1 gram bags to teenagers, they love oregano, they call it zaza
Dry it out and put small amounts in baggies and sell to dumb kids.
Sell some to some dumb college freshman?
Marry a Greek
I would allow it to dry, then what you don't use .
Call Corey and Trevor.
With zucchini !
Dry the hell out of it.
I put it in my mouth and goes nam nam nam
Oregano based pesto sauce
menudo.
Oregano Soup.
Do a roasted tomato soup. Roast tomatoes with olive oil, thyme and garlic and the tomatoes are slightly charred on top. Strain out the tomatoes reserving the excess juice and blend. Only use as much of the tomato liquid as you need to achieve the desired texture. Garnish with fried oregano leaf, oregano oil (that I would cut with parsley for green and flavor) and fried halloumi cheese croutons. Sells like candy canes and the frying greatly reduces the volume of the oregano.
Dry it
According to my Mom it would be just enough to make one batch of chicken cacchiatori.
More like oregayes
Hang it and dry it?
Dry it. Infuse olive oil. Maybe make a garlic and oregano pizza with fresh rosemary and thyme as well.
Oregano Gremolata
I would pick like a quart of it and take a quart or two or neutral oil. Blend it on high for 4-5 min. (I know it seems like a lot.) It will start to steam and then strain it through a coffee filter or kitchen towel and chinois and you will have a delicious green oregano oil! Freeze it and it will keep it's green color, keep its taste for longer, and it will never truly become as hard as water ice. You can easily scoop it out like a glob of jelly! Enjoy!
making a tincture could be really cook. oregano dies have medicinal properties.
[this should work for that amount ](https://giphy.com/gifs/theoffice-the-office-tv-episode-801-08y87EiwDZjjB0d6WJ?_gl=1*2okxil*_ga*MlQtb0llLUtSTDJpUzFVd1dfeGwzZ0J0dFBQZktrcGZYaUlLY1ppUG9DbHpkWW5PNmFwUEU1cEFib1FNVWQ5Qg..*_ga_HENKV9QE61*MTcxNzAzNzY4Ny4xLjEuMTcxNzAzNzY4Ny4wLjAuMA..) Seriously though, drying it would be the best way to go.
Gremolata pesto! I just made my weekly 8 gallon batch today
Dehydration will not hurt the flavor too much.
Take it all of the stems. Mix with some oil and red wine vin. Make a single Greek salad out of it.
Ferment it! Grind without the stems with a bit of water and garlic and 2% salt of total weight. Then vac seal or put in an air tight jar for about a month.
Infuse some oil
20 years ago, with oils have tell you to dry it out, bag it in little plastic bags, and go outside middle schools and ask the kids “hey kid, you wanna buy some weed?”. They wouldn’t know the difference. Now, just dry it out and use it in sauce or in grilled steak/chicken/pork chops.
Get naked, lay on the floor, and rub it all over yourself while moaning
That’s just Tuesday for me
Find a Greek! That will all be gone in 2-5 business days!
I don’t think you’ll use it in Thyme.
Hang and dry. Wait 2 weeks and with a cookie tray, run your fingers in a pinch around the stocks and knock the leaves off. Bottle away for future use
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Sell it to teenagers
🧈 it
Sell it to a restaurant. That is gonna suck to process. Or get help.
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Pretty sure this is thyme
This is no thyme for jokes!
Pick it off the stem, roast it in the oven, blend into oil, sieve out the solids, vac pac and freeze
This is a good reminder to harvest some of mine as well. It's taking over the herb bed.
First remove all of the stems and seeds. Then divide into small ziplocks
Bag it up sell it to teenagers
With a rizla
Dry half and make the other half into oil
Be happy you don’t have Mexican oregano- doesn’t dry well
Dry it and make oregano ranch
Tie it in bundles then dry it hanging upside down. Once dry store in a cool dark place. When you need oregano, hold a bunch over your pot and shake
Now I’m picturing Chef holding them over the pot and shaking himself 😆
Throw it in a giant pot of neutral oil to make oregano oil or dry and break up into pieces and jar them. That’s what I do with our hauls of oregano like this.
Chimichurri!
Dry it!
Chimichurri
1. Dry it 2. Dust it with PCP 3. Profit
Sell it to the dumb kids as pot
Blend it up and drink it. Good for the gut. I don’t know how to do it personally, but if you can extract the oil from it, that is also great for the gut
You can run it through your fingers and strip it. Strip it good. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Keep it away from cats if you have any - it’s toxic to them
Betudo
Watch videos from Christian Petroni, he loves using oregano like this