How to Remove Leaves from a Piece of Thyme - Martha Stewart

Talk about a thyme-saver! This technique can also be used to prepare fresh rosemary.

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How to Remove Leaves from a Piece of Thyme - Martha Stewart

[TdotSoul]

This is the method I use, but it gets complicated when you have stems branching off, and/or thin stems. It takes me about 3 hours to get 2 ounces of fresh thyme.

[marcelos.]

Sometimes it does not work well, because almost always the branches are thin and they shatter.

[terrypedersen]

my stems have tiny xmas trees down the long stem. Makes it hard not to have some stems in with the leaves.

[pennypillow]

i got fed up trying to separate the stems from the leaves so i just put the whole thing into the beef curry i was making and removed the softened stems after cooking

[patriciajohnson]

Run the thyme stem into a colander and pull The leaves will stay in the colander

[nanciejeanne]

Why are they showing rosemary? That's an easy one to strip. All those fragile stems (not the center thick one) on rosemary don't strip like that. I leave the thin ones in because I am not insane (and an mot about to get tweezers or something to get them out!)

[erepsekahs]

She's stripping the stems off the main stem. OK I have come to the conclusion that I have been doing it the best possible way for years, and there is no secret to it.

[brunapelucchi]

run it against the angle of the leaves in the holes of a sieve or a grater

[Marnarabyss]

If you want this to take forever yes do this normal method.

[Hotminutemanda]

My fingers started getting an allergic reaction for some reason. I didn't think I was allergic to thyme. 🕒😂

[samtheviking]

Bull----. That only works if you are rich enough to buy perfect, long, straight thyme branches. Real thyme has a bunch of little branches off the main branch, and if you do this, you'll get a ton of that hard, woody branch material in with your leaves

[tinaglynn]

Are people out there really so dumb they couldn't have figured this out for rhemselves?