hey guys nigel over here in fukuoka japan um just want to show you a cool little thing i started doing this here and basically what i do is i dry herbs out um so that way uh you know i can have a really nice supply in the winter time this is some basil and down there i have some oregano what i'm gonna do is just put it through the salad spinner i'm gonna wash it say hi she's my little assistant and uh yeah what we're gonna do is wash um then pat dry on some paper towels and then run it through my oven and we're gonna bake it for just a little bit and uh we'll see how it goes um i've done this before let me see over here i'll show you what i've done here in the past um over here i've labeled this as my basil see if i can open this with one hand see look at this this is so much basil look at that um i use a magic bullet spinner and uh i basically just run it through the blender i keep these little uh packages which are the uh what are they they take away the moisture or whatever like moisture packs and i keep these from food products so a little tip i uh read before that's the basil and over here we have oregano let's see if i get that open there see my oregano is getting very low not good so i need some more oregano and basil i'm actually gonna give some of this away as a gift today so all right well we got to get to washing we'll be right back for the drying part bye good job mina can you take the lid off and show can you show what it looks like now yeah we've done a few rounds here look at that perfectly dried not dried but certainly most of the moisture is taken off so good job mina next is the basil um what we do for this is we just pick off the leaves only no stems and uh that's it uh what we're going to do is just rewash these one more time through the spinner once this is done how are you doing mina good awesome pick those leaves off okay okay all right looking good mina we're just patting some of the moisture off that's still on the leaves it's pretty dry though i don't think we have to worry about too much padding here it's going to go directly into the oven at this point all right let's go for it um settings here what i'm going to do is pretty much just put this on the lowest setting i have here on my oven this is a 100 degrees celsius which i believe is about 200 fahrenheit so here we go preheat the oven let's plop these suckers in into my extremely dirty oven okay one and two now this is actually a yeah we did it this is actually a convection oven so i'm gonna hit start and i'm gonna turn this uh soft feature on i don't wanna use the fan too much on this so all right i'm figuring about 20 minutes we'll come back and take a look after a little bit and see how this looks okay the herbs have been dried um it took about one hour so 20 minutes was not the ideal time after one hour this is what they look like the oregano has lots of stems and the basil definitely shrunk to about a quarter of the size in it uh than it originally started and looks really good what we're going to do here is we're going to separate the stems from the oregano leaves and we'll put them in here and then we're going to put them in our magic bullet and uh basically grind them up not too much but we're going to you know give them a good little couple of zings basically all right go ahead mina yeah sorry we need to make this one yes we have to put it in there right okay all right let's get to the next part it's a good little job for kids they really like doing this kind of stuff do you like it yeah yeah you're doing a good job yeah okay good girl don't put the sticks in right okay where do you put the sticks after the stems where do you put those in the sink all right okay the stems have all been picked out go ahead mina keep putting some in the cups there please for the blender good job mina yeah a little bit difficult there okay okay why don't why don't we do this you know yeah okay okay here we go one two three good girl okay so we've got basil and we've got oregano let's start doing some blending this one yeah that's the right one mina yep oh do you know how difficult this is to do with one hand okay so let's give this a try yeah let's put the lid on hold the cup hold the cup meena hold the cup strong okay okay you got it yeah okay put it on there now what we're going to do mina don't push too hard just give it a tap tap one two three tap oh stop stop stop okay one more time okay stop stop stop one more time okay stop stop stop let's see we don't want to mulch this too bad i think that's just the right consistency consistency go ahead mina hold the cup hold the cup really hard hold the cup hold the cup oh it's very difficult to do hang on daddy's got to use his super daddy skills hey there you go hold the cup hold the cup there you go mina chan oh how does that look we're gonna put that in our go ahead mina put that right in there please oh oh oh good girl very nice very very nice oh look at that that looks really good not too close mina move down a little bit okay next we've got to do the basil that'll be the next one to do okay thank you okay that one's done and then the next one we're gonna do is the basil okay there we go hold it tight hold the hold it again okay all right other way around please yeah okay one two three stop okay stop okay let's see how's that look oh that looks really good oh looking good looking good hold the cup please hold the cup okay oh there we go that worked good so i'm trying to do this all with one hand with a three-year-old kid and an ipad let's see let's see all right not too bad could probably use a little bit more uh mulching but uh nothing we can't use with our hands not bad the drying i think turned out really well so let's go let's let's conclude up here mina let's conclude up so we did our two herbs today we did the i can get that lid oregano we did the oregano and we've got basil that'll be a great little gift for a friend of ours who's coming over today and uh might just mulch it a little bit more but uh what do you think mina did you enjoy making herbs today yeah yeah i think we have to go uh she we gotta go put her down for a nap it's about three o'clock in the afternoon and she's getting pretty tired so say bye bye mina bye bye bye thanks for watching later bye