Fresh herbs are common ingredients that use moist cooking such as soups, stews and braise. But we could not say that herbs are completely useless in dried form. Actually, there is a drying way that not only extends the herbs’ shelf live, but also maximum preserve herbs, flavor and color. Yes, microwave is the best option. Compared to other drying methods hanging in a well-ventilated room or using oven, the microwave produces the most potent dried herbs with the brightest color and freshest flavor as we expected. Industrial microwave could be used for drying parsley, mint, tarragon, cilantro, chervil, basil, rosemary, thyme, savory, marjoram, oregano and chives.

So what’s the different between microwave and drying solutions? The main different is that microwave specifically target water when they are heating. Microwave work by emitting wave of long electromagnetic radiation that cause polar molecules within your food to rapidly flip back and forth. The most abundant polar molecule in food we have is water. So microwave does not heat up all your food, it just heats up the water. On the other hand, microwave could uniform dry herbs.

Industrial microwave minimize drying time so microwave is the most efficient method of heating. Drying herbs just need a couple of minutes-a fraction of the time for other oven pre-heat. In addition, microwave energy directly penetrates inside of leaves evaporating water immediately. Especially, industrial microwave could handle with a large amount of herbs under a shorter time over traditional drying methods

Many people concerns the color and flavor alter. There’s as much flavor as there is color in there. Microwave herbs are more brittle and dry (air-or oven dried herbs tend to be more tough than brittle) so microwave maximum preserve herbs color and flavor.

MAX Industrial Microwave manufactures high standard commercial microwave dryer to process all kinds of hers. Please feel free to contact with MAX Industrial Microwave.