Spring herbs are here! Store bought chives are expensive. The cost for the above bottle of dried chives was $4.58! I freeze my chives, but for the dry Ranch mix recipe, I need dehydrated/dried chives. The bottle above is .12 oz and when ground makes 7 1/2 teaspoons. It is horribly expensive, and I have managed to kill the indoor chive plant I brought inside. So....on a mission I went... I dehydrated chives many years ago, but did not do my research before hand. I had snipped them, and placed them on parchment paper in the dehydrator, and they the fan blew them all over the inside. Here is what I have researched. -if you wash your chives, be sure to let they dry or dry them with a towel, or use a vegetable drying pad to let them dry off any water from washing them. Otherwise, your dehydrator time will be a lot longer. -do not snip them, keep the the chives whole, and place in the dehydrator. -do not use a heat higher than 95°F, and d...
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