Do you wash lettuce or cabbage when making salad or cooking?!
I grew up picking lettuce out of my grandma's garden. If it is really good lettuce it has been grown organically in fertilized soil. Anything grown in fertilized soil definitely should be washed - - very well.
P.S. And, if it is not grown organically, it is probably sprayed with bug repellents. Another reason to wash it well.
. . . speaking of bugs . . . If it is really good lettuce there might be at least one smart bug chewing on it. Another reason to wash it well.
And, if you did not, personally, pick it out of the garden, it has probably been touched by at least two people before you bought it at the grocery store. (The person who picked it from the garden. And the person who put it on the shelf in the grocery store.) (And, perhaps, 10 shoppers before you!) Another reason to wash it well.
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Answers: Yes. Definitely. All vegetables (and fruits) should be washed.
I grew up picking lettuce out of my grandma's garden. If it is really good lettuce it has been grown organically in fertilized soil. Anything grown in fertilized soil definitely should be washed - - very well.
P.S. And, if it is not grown organically, it is probably sprayed with bug repellents. Another reason to wash it well.
. . . speaking of bugs . . . If it is really good lettuce there might be at least one smart bug chewing on it. Another reason to wash it well.
And, if you did not, personally, pick it out of the garden, it has probably been touched by at least two people before you bought it at the grocery store. (The person who picked it from the garden. And the person who put it on the shelf in the grocery store.) (And, perhaps, 10 shoppers before you!) Another reason to wash it well.
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Usually not if it's being cooked. I might give it a quick rinse if I were boiling cabbage.
As for lettuce, ALWAYS! Especially when making a salad. There is all kinds of dirt on lettuce.
I wash all fruits and vegetables before cooking or eating them.
Yes I wash it under running water leaf by leaf. Sometimes I tear the leaves and soak then in salted water or water with some vinegar in it.
I just run it under water for a few minutes just to rinse the icky stuff off. then i let it drip dry in a strainer or colender
Yes of course.
not only do i wash it, i remove several of the outer leaves to remove any possible contaminants
Yes, although all produce is washed before delivery, people at the stores touch it. Gotta wash.
...most likely yeah... specially for the lettuce thing
YES
there are pesticides
but if its organic than i dont bother
Yes. I like to make sure it is clean.
i wouldnt if it is being cooked but in a salad yes u want to get evrything off.
um.. yes that would be a good thing to do just put it the lettuce or cabbage under some water and make sure its all wet and there you go its not that hard
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you should do that cause it might be a Little dirty
Absolutely. I always wash vegetables and fruits before eating them or cooking with them.
Always!!!
lettuce - yes
curly kale - yes
red and white cabbage -- no, but I don't use the outer leafes.
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no i never. i always eat the salad without washing it and after that i drink detergent mixed in hot water , which automatically washes the salad.
Hello
Lettuce or Cabage you have to wash and use it.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU HAVE TO WASH ALL VEGITABLES/ FRUITS which you brough from Market.
Out side of Vegitables or Fruits have small dust on skin.
Wash with Water and wipe it with wetted cloth.
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usually no. I peel off the outer leaves tho-