>eat a salad at literally any restaurant>it's delicious>try to make salad at home>"you have to wash the vegetables first... OR ELSE!">now the lettuce and spinach or whatever is all soggy and limpLiterally how the fuck am I supposed to deal? What are you supposed to do, sop things up with half a roll of paper towels? And it doesn't repair the texture of the leaves. What is this lunacy?
Put a shoe on your head with a timestamp because your too fucking stupid to understand how salads work
Simply don't wash the vegetables
>>21590811Hold washed veggies in handsextend arms to the sidespin as fast as possiblecounter-clockwise
>>21590827>here's your wet soggy mess bro
>>21590811Put your vegies in the washing machine spin cycle. This is how restaurants do it.
>>21590827>>21590831>>21590835so you's sayin*smacks lips*i need to buy an expensive gadget to properly construct a salad?
>>21590811Just dry them with a towel
>>21590851yes and if you can't afford a 20 dollar salad spinner you can't really afford to be eating a salad or really anything other than rice and beans
>>21590869i've never made beans on my own but everyone says legumes are healthy except maga chuds who say they're the same as söy
>>21590870dumb fuck kys
>>21590874prove it
>>21590851*blinks*you think it's more expensive than a metal frying pan?
you don't need those plastic spinny things that the tv tries to sell you. Just give it a good tossing in a colander.
>>21590870they're not really healthy they're more like not unhealthy. their biggest draw is theyre very cheap. lentils are extremely easy to cook and take like that only 20 minutes. beans take a while if you include the soaking time and are much more likely to give you gas whereas lentils will not give you gas
>>21590883this doesnt remove excess water from yur greens though lil guy
>>21590851No, you can just put it in a cloth and swing it in a circle, the tool simply makes it easier and less messy.
I just wrap it in a paper towel and kind of press on it.
Why would you need a spinning device? What special form of autism am I witnessing in this thread?Just wash your greens and don’t manhandle them when drying and shaking off the water. If you can’t manage that then clean them after purchase, let them drain most of the water in a colander, and put them back in the fridge with a towel around them until you use them.
>>21590821This.
>>21590884>lentils will not give you gaslentils make me brap a lot
>>21590811rinsing lettuce and celery makes them more crisp, let them strain, dont just soak them and make a salad 5 seconds later
>>21590973Yes it does
you get one of those aforementioned lettuce drying drums. it's a genuinely good piece of equipment. and acts as a bowl/sieve in a pinch too.the most important thing however is to season your salad. this means salt and possibly black pepper. it's astonishing how many homecooks just don't do this.
>>21590811The trick is using very cold water. We'd chop all the lettuce and whatnot up, and then dunk and leave in a vat of water in the walk in. When you needed more, you got some into a container that had a grate at the bottom to let water pass, but not the lettuce. Just give it 5 10 minutes and it will be dry enough.
>>21590870Beans aren't good for you nor are they bad for you. It's about the most neutral food item you can get. Beans are pretty horrendously priced for shit outside pintos for what they are though.
>>21590811Generally a nice salad experience in the home:It's a side, so cut your romain, red leaf, or green leaf from the crown and wash before you prep the rest of the meal so it dries by the time you throw the salad together just before serving.Spring mix and pre cut salad boxes and bags are leaves that have been removed from their life support of crown or root up to a week ago in the feild they were plucked from, then soaked in a salt solution to hyper hydrate but that stresses the cells at least this is the American way . Put them in water with a little baking soda for a hour no scrubbing or disturbing so they can perk up and be cleaned at the same time. Drain and rinse. Then remove em from the water and drain them in a colander give em a shake every now and then to dry while your cooking the main meal.Iceberg lettuce is always shit, don't use it.From a person who's husband has been working produce 16 years, and who themselves have been making my own meals for decades.
>>21590811Use your salad drier you fucking retard
/ck/ - too fucking inept to even make a salad
am i the only person that thinks salad spinners are retarded? why does anyone use them? also most spinaches and lettuces come pre-washed
>>21590811It's really not hard. Rinse your leafy vegetables when you first get them, let them dry a few minutes in a collander >>21590883 if it's something with lots of little nooks like kale or some lettuce you can use a bit of paper towel. Otherwise just put it back in the fridge and it's ready as soon as you want it later.I have grown, harvested, kept and eaten a shit ton of greens in my day. I do not own a salad spinner.
>>21590811
>>21591434You trust them?
>>21590851>expensive gadgetimagine getting filtered by a fuckin salad spinner, yet you're able to eat out at restaurants>>21590883>>21591458>>21591434>>21591024That's what I do and it's fine if you're gonna prep your fuckin salad like 2 hours ahead of time, but generally speaking there shouldn't be a whole afternoon needed to make a salad where 90% of the time is just waiting for the water to drip down.
>>21591434>salad spinnersThey all come with a big non-meshed bowl in which you dump your food, that you then fill with water that cleans your food. You then place the cleaned food into the meshed bowl, and proceed to dry the food by combining the two bowls together and spinning using the special lid. Using a big bowl filled with water and with moderate irritation, all the dirt and sand sinks to the bottom, whereas the bugs float to the top, and are much easier to see. Something like >>21590883 is not the proper way to wash food. Lots of foods people wash can come with dead bugs or dirt - some of which you may or may not see - and just pouring water over a stack of food obviously isn't gonna reach the inside. The only way this method actually washes the food thoroughly is if you literally rinse each item one at a time, which not only takes longer, but uses way more water. Such a method is only okay for rinsing a small number of items. The big bowl method will thoroughly wash much more.In any case, for something like this, people can do wtv they want. You can handwash dishes or use a dishwasher. You can use either method of washing your food, or hell, you can choose not to if you're okay with that. Probably not gonna be in the greatest danger if you don't.
>>21591619Oh woops, forgot to talk about >>21591434>most... come pre-washedYeah, if you're buying bagged (or plastic covered) veggies that say pre-washed, sure. You understand though that an item like this is definitely gonna be more expensive than unwashed ones or open groceries? Lots of products that'll say "Non-GMO" or organic will be packaged like this too... "Most" people are certainly not buying these items with these packaging. The only population buying these are only like upper-middle class and above.
>>21591619>rinse each item one at a timeDo this, it only takes 4 or 5 large leaves to make a salad, thats nothing. Salas spinners are doing it blind and really stubborn dirt and grooves especially on home grown lettuce many not be touches while all the leaves are forced to the wall in their starship 3000 carnival ride.Spend the 2 minutes rinsing each leaf, let it drain 10-15, flop it on a dish towell a couple times if needed then tear it up for your salad. If youre makin2 its not that much harder
>>21591625I can get a huge thing of pre-washed bagged spinach for $1-2. It's one of the few things I've seen that has yet to be raped by inflation/tariffs. I'm good with that price, thank you.
>>21590835>>21590841these look like flimsy plastic shit>>21590831i have this version and if anything, is al least fun to spin
>>21591577You misunderstood my post >>21591458 you wash and dry your greens when you first either buy or harvest them, then you store them clean and dry. Spinach and lettuce will easily last 4 or 5 days like that if it was fresh, stuff like kale and collards even longer. So you spend a bit of time washing and drying, then you put it away. So for the next several days you can throw greens in, chop up a tomato, pepper, onion whatever else you want and have a salad ready in a minute or two. I do this almost every day, it really isn't rocket science or a burden.
>>21591180weird. they are inert to me. but if I eat a single red bean I will turn into a fart machine
>>21591434>also most spinaches and lettuces come pre-washedNo they don't.
>>21591577>imagine getting filtered by a fuckin salad spinner, yet you're able to eat out at restaurants?your post doesn't make sense
>>21590811>First toss the salad>Then add scrambled eggs>Goodnight Seattle.
>>21592053are you in a third world country?
>>21592066Third world countries eat significantly more vegetables than Americans
>>21592072Are you low IQ?
>>21592074You apparently are, since you're unable to distinguish nationality from food availability and preparation customs. Life is tough for you to navigate, huh?
>>21592076You are an assmad thirdie, got it pipsqueak. Tell me which country you're from so I can come and fuck your future wife.
>>21592082You're so mindbroken you think "thirdies" are spending their time gangstalking you on 4channel.org in perfect English. Consider taking a break from the zero-sum shitpost game, aneurysms are no laughing matter.
>>21592085k pipsqueak cry more
>>21590811>now the lettuce and spinach or whatever is all soggy and limpstop using hot water moron.
>>21592066>>21592082>>21592088
>>21591534Yeah dude, everyone is out to get you. We are behind every corner. Waiting to strike at you. You, personally. Even the salad people.
>>21590811So let it dry jack ass, just put it on some paper if you don't have a salad spinner, then put the salad together.
>>21592088You got fucking rekt
>>21592469>>21592592More assmad thirdies that are really mad that they dont have access to pre-washed vege for some reason. I don't get why this is a big deal to you.
>>21592057Guy called it "an expensive gadget" but you can get a salad spinner for $10-$20. It's not expensive at all, and gets your lettuce dried rapidly and easily.
>>21590827I had one and got that lettuce up to mach speeds and it was still wet afterward. Now I plan ahead and rinse way ahead of time or just deal with wet salads.
>>21592808Gee if there was only some kind of way you could dry items after rinsing them.
>>21592497I'm sure the hungover assembly line wagie took extra care to rinse every leaf in your greasy prepackaged half rotten salad, no need to rinse or inspect! That would make you a schizo!
>>21592634I don't know about them but here in Canada most vegetables of that sort are sold like this. They are misted to keep them fresh and some like beets have been rinsed, but they aren't considered washed. Is that unusual where you are? How are vegetables sold?
>>21590851Normal people eat salads every day that thing is cheap on the long run
>>21593047Tgis. Even if it says it's washed, who trusts that to mean it was washed well.?
>>21593087We have those too but normies love the bagged shit salads.
>>21593093A rinse and a quick shake is even cheaper
>>21593087This is the norm in burgerland too. The dude just has other preferences
>>21591262liar
>>21590811>lettuce is limp after washingWhat are you doing to it? You're not supposed to submerge and soak it and scrub it. Just a quick rinse and toss under running water, in a colander and not a bowl. Put a lid or hold your hand on top, and shake the excess water out
>>21590851absolute faggoted retard
>>21594055Shake the strainer, save 20 bucks and a square foot of cabinet space
why bother complaining about cooking if youre going to whine about needing tools to do so? surely you dont complain about needing to own a knife to cut food, or a pan to cook it, or a fridge to keep it cold, right? greens grow in dirt and are fertilized with shit, theyre ripe for ecoli and lysteria. buying prewashed greens means buying the absolute awful slop thet doesnt get sent to market as produce and consists of the stemmy, nutrientless garbage harvest. buy decent greens by the head, wash them, dry them, use a dressing that doesnt dome from a plastic bottle, bam - restaurant-tier salad.
only women eat salad faggot
>>21594836>t. early onset colon cancer victim
>>21590851For the price of one restaurant salad, you can get a spinner that lasts a lifetime.
>>21594990Unnecessary >>21595019More practical, but honestly wrist flick and toss the leaves a few times os more than enough
>>21595121wrong
>>21594990I still have the one my mom gave me when I moved out after graduating high schoolIt's probably older than a bunch of people reading this
>>21595145You mean right
>>21590851i just wash mine in a pasta straineri used to dry them on a towel but i don't really see the need.the most important thing is freshness not whether the leaves are wet. add croutons or some shit if you want crunchy.
>>21592811Nigga I'm not drying each leaf with a towel.
The average/ck/ user doesn't have the hand dexterity to bounce leaves in a strainer apparently
>>21590811just don't wash the lettuce you dumb faggot
>>21590883if you cant put a plate or plastic wrap over the top of a metal strainer and shake real hard then you should probably hokd your breath for 3 hours
>>21593585It's not preferences, he seems to be claiming only third world countries sell vegetables that need washing after purchase. I want to know what the fuck country he's talking about where everything is sold prewashed and wrapped in plastic.
>>21593585>>21595454you guys are both incredible retarded and have worse reading comprehension than a 4th grader would've had a decade ago
>>21595555incredibly*autocorrect
>>21591275This. Or put ice cubes in the water.
>>21591262No it fucking doesn't retard
>>21593087>They are misted to keep them fresh and some like beets have been rinsed, but they aren't considered washed.Never found bugs n shit in your veggies from the "mister" have you? Wash your shit people, this crap is literally open to the public - and the public are nasty fucking assholes. >>21592808You can dump the water and spit it multiple times, shaking it to ensure all the nooks get spun dry.
>>21595643nta, where in his comment does he say you don't need to wash veggies like those in his pic?
>>21595605Yeah it does
>>21590835I mean it looks like it works. Doesn't have to be bone dry, you're gonna slather it in mayo anyway.
>>21590884>theyre very cheapany nutritious salad green is more expensive than meat lb per pound and it's 90% wateri like salads and can make them, but fuck all they're stupid expensivealso most packaged greens come prewashed
>>21595886this is before accounting for calorie density.salads are far from economical foodstuffs
>>21590827Used to shit on salad spinners too but they are a must if you wash your lettuce or other large leafy greens (which you should). There is simply no other way to quickly and efficiently dry them. I used to dry them between kitchen towels or paper towels, but this never got them fully dry, so they'd still have to sit out for an hour or so before they were ready. But one of my ex gfs gave me a salad spinner and, when I finally used it, I understood. The lettuce comes out dry in seconds. >>21591873I have the oxo one (>>21590841) and it's sturdy. Its push action is way smoother than the cranked ones. >>21593353I used to say that too. But watery salad just isn't as enjoyable.>in b4 my few shakes get it dryThey don't
>>21595946>They don'tThey do, you just do it wrong apparently
>>21595706It's funny because he even quoted the part where I said people don't consider them washed but he didn’t even read that far before spouting off like a tard.
