Washing Lettuce

[rockyracoon]

Iceburg lettuce! Does anyone wash this, I do, but it's a pet hate of mine, I despise the salad spinner as well. A restaurant near me serves wedges of iceburg with their meals, surely these haven't been washed, it would be too difficult wouldn't it?

[ummmm]

I've never seen a TV chef wash lettuce.

[maggiebee]

I have never washed an iceberg lettuce. I take off the outer leaves and rip apart the rest (never cut with a knife).

[rockyracoon]

You're right ummm, don't think I have either. I don't mind washing Cos as it can just sit in the colander for and hour but the other stuff, urgh, drives me mad.

[ummmm]

Iceberg (my fav) is tight, like a cabbage. I check other lettuce varieties.

[rockyracoon]

Thanks Maggie, I've heard that before about using knives, I think you can buy plastic ones for cutting them, sure I had one years ago.

[pdust]

i rinse it then give it a right shake ....i couldnt eat it if i didnt wash it

[shaneystar2]

I never wash lettuce .Most of them are grown in hothouses these days .You rarely see a slug on a lettuce these days .I pick it over and brush off any suspect black bits which are only earth anyway .
You have to eat a bucket of muck before you die as my old Mum used to say :)

[annie0000]

I don't like iceberg lettuce and I buy mine already washed in a little bag :o)

[rockyracoon]

It's not the bugs that bother me really, it's more about washing off pesticides. I suppose with the iceburg, the chemicals wouldn't penetrate the inside.

[shaneystar2]

I doubt they use pesticides much rocky .It's a quick growing crop with a high turnover .
Saint Delia doesn't wash hers either :)
http://www.deliaonlin...ettuce-or-leaves.html

[annie0000]

Delia's hands give me the creeps so i can't make her recipes without thinking about them and it puts me off the food.

[rockyracoon]

Thanks all, I'm officially not washing iceburgs anymore.

[giveup]

Do you believe Delia wipes every lettuce leaf with kitchen roll. I find the easiest way is to rinse it,put it in a tea towel and shake it outside.

[crisgal]

I hate washing lettuce too-and grating cheese!

[giveup]

and I hate grating lemon rind

[rockyracoon]

Oh yes crisgal, cheese grating, another argh! I tried to get the kids to do that, it didn't end well.

[welshlibranr]

I buy lettuce in a bag, ready washed, and cheese which is grated!.............sorted!..............

[rockyracoon]

I find that grated cheese goes off a bit quick, don't you welshy. I buy the luttuce in a bag sometimes but it's usually baby spinach or watercress, the main lettuce I usually buy whole (and wash, argh)

[welshlibranr]

rockyracoon, yes grated cheese needs to be used quickly, and as long as you do, it's fine, and as for washing lettuce, I will never do it!.......I use the washed bagged stuff!............lol.................

[shaneystar2]

I buy grated cheese too .It's good if you're making cheese sauce .I'm a lazy mare . Lol ....I buy bags of chopped veg and diced swede and carrot too ..Mind you I have arthritics in the hands and find all this chopping and peeling too much of a chore these days .