Ha bacteria! It’s not the water you should be worried about.
It’s the quart gallon of vodka I wash it down with each night, as I try to blot out my existence.
Fuck you bacteria (and my liver), I WIN!
Err, your immune system can cope with a bit of bacteria. But if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself, your body will deal with it by extorting everything in your stomach. E.g. you’ll puke the entire night. You’re welcome.
When you rinse salad with water you are not cleaning a significant amount of bacteria off it. You’re getting soil and bugs.
Unless your salad is contaminated with something, not washing it will at worst be gritty and unpleasant. It won’t make you ill. If it does, washing it will make no difference.
u a science man/woman?
a massive load
How about a pile?
if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself
Who spunks on a salad?
Men of culture (bacterial)
🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶
🎶 “Norovirus sucks” 🎶
🎶 “I know” 🎶
I don’t know if this is effective, my wife soak the veggies in baking powder/baking soda, I forgot which. She said it kills bugs. Who am I to argue.
Yeah I just don’t like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.
Yeah I wash my vegetables for grit. I don’t even care that much about bugs, but even the slightest amount of grit is terrible.
Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?
You’re washing bugs and dirt off.
Its also wash out bacteria.
No I’m not!
I don’t think that salad bought in a store should have bugs and dirt on it, if you find them in your sink when you wash it you should change supermarket
EDIT: My bad, I was thinking about pre packaged salad, not like a whole head of lettuce, OP is correct and OOP should wash their lettuce better
I’ve been using Original Commenter (OC) to talk about the person who starts a comment thread. Seems to be pretty intuitive. Wonder what the acronym would be for commenters responding to OC and starting different comment branches. Probably makes sense to just use their name
Even pre packaged, check the package to confirm if you need to clean it or not
You might be thinking of pre-packaged salad which, while already washed, can still contain bacteria. But if you’re buying plain lettuce, it’s absolutely not pre-washed.
Ah, you’re right I was thinking about the pre packaged one, now all the people telling me they have found multiple bugs in their lettuce makes sense considering I would probably expect to find small bugs and dirt in a whole head of lettuce
I feel that they still spray it with water, even if not thoroughly, just to remove the biggest pieces of dirt. But I may be wrong.
They’re definitely washed after being harvested, but as someone who has seen how it’s stored between that and the store shelves, I’ll give it a rinse every time.
Bro people poop in the fields because they literally just don’t have time to go back to the restroom in between shifts of picking
And I don’t blame them in the slightest. They have a very hard job
So I don’t know about you but I will always be washing any produce that I buy at the grocery store as soon as I bring it in my house
we’re not far off from grocery store workers having to do the same
Used to work at a supermarket. We would hide the poop behind the cheese section so it wouldn’t stink
Lettuce grows in a bundle of very tightly packed leaves. At no part in the growing - transport - shelving - selling chain can anyone be expected to thoroughly wash between the leaves, especially near the root. Rinse your veggies before using.
And that’s for iceberg lettuce. Romain and it’s kind have loose leafs so a ton gets in there. Bok Choi too, I cook with it a lot and I see a bit of dirt in there all the time. I always give my veggies a good rinse.
Bugs mean fresh and no pesticides!
BUGS GOOD!
It’s like finding soil on your tubers. It’s better to have to wash it off.
Also, unwashed potatoes will last longer, as water causes fungus and bacteria to grow.
I don’t know where you live but I’m in Australia and I also lived in South America and I’ve seen plenty of dirt, caterpillars, aphids and flies too many times on my lettuce, harvested from different sources, seasons, and purchased from different supermarket chains and small grocer shops.
And it was never a problem for me. Where are you getting your sterile lettuce from, so I make sure I don’t?
I don’t think
Yeah, we know…
That’s literally me, that’s who you made fun of.
Do you feel bed yet?
I wish I was in bed.
Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.
Is … Is that Will Arnett?? Or am I missing the joke?? It doesn’t look like him to me.
It’s mark hoppus from blink-182
Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol
Yeah no idea who that is in OP
This is Mark Hoppus from Blink-182
Thank you. Guess I’m just missing the joke lol
I think OP and I just have the same issue with similar looking faces, because I also thought this was Gob from Arrested Development.
This is Mark Hoppus from blink-182
You wash because of the pesticides.
You wash it because of the ratlungworm that raw snail and slug can give you.
Oh fuuuuck. Nature is crazy 😬
Shit like this is why I don’t believe there’s a god
Also the bugs, fecal matter, and dirt that can be in the folds and pockets.
Ok, but what about the
saladlettuce?We are talking about washing lettuce, prior to it becoming a salad.
Sorry, but I wanted to make a stupid “switcharoo” kind of joke that would imply a significant lack of personal hygiene on my part.
In German salad also means lettuce, so that’s why it wasn’t as clear as I wanted it to be.
You tried to make a joke, right here in front of my salad?
I always wash the fecal matter in my pockets very carefully - glad to hear my personal hygiene is passable.
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They’ve studied that and it doesn’t get rid of pesticides.
To get rid of pesticides you need to immerse it in a baking soda solution for about 20 minutes.
They’ve studied it and you’re wrong
The correct answer is 9/12 pesticides are removed by Simple rinsing with water. Detergents do not improve results compared to mechanical removal via rinsing for 30 seconds.
At a minimum rinse all fresh produce under tap water for at least thirty seconds.
The mechanical action of rubbing the produce under tap water is likely responsible for removing pesticide residues.
Personally I wouldn’t call mechanical action of rubbing to be rinsing. I would have liked to see the % removed, but skimming that article I didn’t see. Also in my experience people don’t rub for 30 literal seconds, the people I watch are lucky to break 5 seconds.
But the main point I want to make is that baking soda is a base that breaks down the pesticide.
Liang [4] studied the removal of five organophosphorus pesticides in raw cucumber with home preparation, and the research results show that washing by tap water for 20 min only caused a pesticides reduction of 26.7–62.9%. Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate solution caused a pesticides reduction of 66.7–98.9%.
The removal efficiency of other washing solutions outperformed the tap water; tap water washing only caused a 10–40% loss of the 10 pesticides, and the AlEW, micron calcium, and active oxygen solution caused a 40–90% loss of the 10 pesticides.
AIEW being alkaline electrolyzed water, which I understand to be baking soda.
Probably depends a lot on the pesticides and therefore country…
Thank you. I thought that pesticides wouldn’t come off with simple rinsing.
Awesome! Looks like rinsing and 30 second rubbing is the way to go. Thank you.
Go up to see my comment responding to him.
it is too late i have moved on
Here’s me raw dogging my salads.
It probably doesn’t do much, but I soak it in water with vinegar for 10 minutes.
I assume the ratio is low enough on the vinegar that it doesn’t impact the taste?
Can’t imagine it would hurt anything if it doesn’t affect the texture.
Plenty of salad dressings are just hopped up vinegars anyway.
Yup, 2-3 teaspoons in a bowl of water. I rinse it with water again after soaking and that washes away any sourness left behind.
You can also use a few drops of bleach.
She’ll be right
