The Salad Spinner Mistakes Most People Make
There is a right way and a wrong way to use a salad spinner. Here are the tips that make the difference between soggy and perfectly fresh, clean, ready-to-eat greens.
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Is this video brought to us by the lettuce lobby?
usually only takes me 4-5 pumps but what can i say
Everyone is saying to use this tool as if it's a universally owned item like forks or plates lmao
Hey that's me in spanish!
HECK YEAH! I always just store the lettuce in the spinner. It crisps up very nicely and lasts a long time.
Brave of you to eat lettuce right now…
Thx Algorithm…I bought a salad spinner a couple months ago and felt like i had been using it wrong. Without ever searching YT or Google this popped up…😮
Same for cleaning berries and other small veggies and fruit?
I store my greens I. The salad spinner and put the whole thing in the fridge
I would toss the salad spinner water and NOT use it for anything, especially watering edible plants.
Why?
You wash and spin the veggies to wash off contaminates. Now, you aren't sterilizing them. The wash water has contaminates in it like pesticides and microbes like the current cyclosporiasis.
You are not eliminating it but you are reducing the amount still on your veggies, and trying to get the level low enough so you don't contract it.
The water coming off the veggies will still have contaminates in it, just fewer.
Best to toss it it and water with fresh, clean water.
Good advice
Is this preferred over tossing salad?
Definitely recommend the push variety over the little spindle to turn. A lot easier and more effective to boot
30 pumps? Who did you think I am, Johnny Sins?
Don’t forget you can add ice to the spinner bottom, fill with water, and use the strainer portion to hold the lettuce and sit in the spinner— allow any wilted to crisp up a bit before spinning
uh… bad timing..😂 aint nobody eating lettuce right now with the bad lettuce alerts! 🚽🧻💩
What's wrong with stuffing the greens in a sock and spinning it?
I also like to do 30 pumps 🙂
I have been using salad spinner for yrs. On the video, that's way too much green for that bowl. You should wash it batches and allow more water to loosening the dirt that clinging to the green. As long as you don't see any dirt in the water bowl, your green is ready .
Adding a paper towel in with veggies has been a game-changer for me. They last noticeably longer in the fridge
Great tips. I don't recall anyone ever talking about how to use a dryer. We'll done.🎉
These are very obvious tips in my opinion, but I guess some people might be stupid
salad spinner? I hardly know 'er!
What a total waste of time.
Thank you!
Spoiler alert: you're using your salad spinner correctly
To save plastic, only pull off the lettuce you actually need, and/or store it in an open container (bowl) so water evaporates
timely!! Suggestions on cleaning lettuce/greens to wash out cyclospora parasite. Use vinegar or not?? Other ingredients??
What variety of lettuce is that?
Wish i liked salad.only way ill eat lettuce is chefs salad meat eggs cheese an ranch
Thank you
imma be honest if you have trouble figuring out how to wash your greens and work a salad spinner I'm concerned for your general well-being
You are correct. That is not how I use my salad spinner. I start by throwing it in the garbage and not eating a salad
First step…buy a salad spinner😂
"Washing produce reduces the risk of possible infection, but does not guarantee that produce is safe to eat. Thorough cooking in addition to washing will kill the Cyclospora parasite."
This short was released in the middle of a cyclosporia (sp?) outbreak currently affecting lettuce. The lettuce is likely contaminated by unsanitary lettuce-pickers. Will salad spinners clean salads of this germ or not? What about blanching the lettuce?
good exercise