[peanut]

How do you go about freeze drying herbs?  Is it just pick em and stick em in an airtight freezer bag or much more complicated?

[mumofstig]

That's all i ever do with mine when you take them out if you're quick you can crumble them while they're still frozen. Otherwise you're chopping a soggy mess
I think the ones you buy freeze dried are a completely different process and wouldn't know where to start

[titch]

thats how i do mine too mos - also with chilis, when thye are reduced in the supermarket, freeze em whole for another time

[Lady Lottie]

I haven't actually got around to growing any herbs yet... but I buy fresh from the supermarket and stick 'em straight in the freezer - basil, coriander, parsley...as MOS said, you don't even have to chop - just crush them up in your hands or in the bag and chuck 'em in whatever it is your cooking - its a great way to use them I think 

[alwayshopeful]

If you are worried about just sticking them straight in the freezer, try chopping them up and adding them to ice cube trays with a bit of water.  Then you can just pop and add to soups, stews, etc whenever you need one 

[HLS]

I just use straight from frozen (crumble if a small amount, chop bits off a bunch if a large amount).  It's not the same texture as either fresh or dried but the taste is more like the fresh leaf than the dried.

[peanut]

Very helpful, thanks all

[Lady Lottie]

I just use straight from frozen (crumble if a small amount, chop bits off a bunch if a large amount).  It's not the same texture as either fresh or dried but the taste is more like the fresh leaf than the dried.

Yes, spot on - and you have to be quick before is defrosts and goes all gloopy!

[barney rubble]

That's all i ever do with mine when you take them out if you're quick you can crumble them while they're still frozen. Otherwise you're chopping a soggy mess
I think the ones you buy freeze dried are a completely different process and wouldn't know where to start

Yes its a very different process and usually involves blasting them with freezing air (or so I'm led to believe). Think you need lots of expensive equipment to do it.....   I'd stick to a quick crumble 

[Riala]

I was going to stick mine in small amounts in ice cube trays with water... sort of frozen cubed herbs.

As suggested by alwayshopeful.