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Why are new bars not growing mint

Often it is difficult to change existing bars with "new stuff". However I am asking myself, why are new bars not growing mint themselves? Hydroponic systems are quite efficient and easy to maintain. First: why should a bar grow their own mint? The answer is quite obvious, bars are using a lot of mint. And mint is quite delicate - that means, transporting it, will take its toll. But there are points, which are going even further: self-grown mint, would need less to be processed (washed, stored etc).  Second: there is even more to it. Mint has most of its aromatics in microscopic hair underneath the leaves. While it is transported, it looses a lot of these hairs, and the aroma is gone forever. Even a sophisticated system, how to revive mint and keep it for  along time, will not change, that this mint will taste only like a shadow of fresh harvested mint! Third: mint growth I admit, if you first of all plant mint, it seems a bit of a delicate thing....

How to prepare mint

It is a challenge and I've only mastered this question after a long time: How to prepare mint. If you make it properly, you will have fresh and healthy looking sprigs for several days - or even a week! Really lucky bartenders are having a garden with lots of mint shrubs - however even they might have problems in the winter... And we are not yet in a position, that we can tell guests, that they cannot have Mojitos, Juleps and other minty drinks, because mint is out of season! Here in the Middle East, it is even more difficult to get healthy mint;  in culinary [especially MESA cuisine] a lot of mint is used, but almost everything is processed (at least shredded) so you can [fortunately] not even imagine, how the mint looked before! Long story short - here I am with a step by step explanation to get fantastic looking mint for at least a week!!! 1. This is the mint we get from the cold kitchen. I have to be honest, that this mint looks quite healthy, if you c...