Tell me if this has happened to you because it sure has happened to me.

You grow lettuce, you germinate the seed, you've lovingly cared for it over the course of its

short but beautiful lifespan and you harvest it, you it you put it in the fridge and then two days later it is a wet

Sloppy slimy disgusting mess and then you cry a thousand tears because you just ruined something that you grew. I've done this

before, maybe you've done it too, hopefully not, but if you have, that's what today's

episode is all about. How to store the lettuce that you grow so it actually stays fresh and

crispy specifically as long as it humanly can't. Okay? A lot of people will seal their lettuce and they'll suck all the air out of the bag.

That's actually the opposite of what you want to do.

Solid greens, lettuce, they need a couple of things to stay crisp. They need air flow and they need a couple things to stay crisp. They need airflow and they need moisture.

So if you seal it up you just blocked out one of the two things it needs and probably added too much moisture

so you're not giving it the conditions that it needs.

So let's go ahead and imagine that we harvest our lettuce.

Ideally you harvest it in the early morning, nice and crisp, it hasn't been blasted by

the heat so it's not struggling to keep those leaves

crisp on the plant while it's actually alive. Now you have a bunch of leaves you bring it into the

kitchen fill it up fill the sink up with cold water, swish them around, you just go through the

classic washing process, maybe you do this once or twice if you have particularly dirty lettuce.

Now you want to dry the lettuce.

The best way is a salad spinner, but you don't want to

cram it full. If you want to cut them in half, that's a good idea, but you just don't want

them to get bruised because that will lead to a quicker decay. Now salad spin until all the water has

drained away but they'll still be slightly damp and actually that's a good thing that's what you want.

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