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How to clean a salad.
I remember when I was cooking with my grandma,
the salad was always coming from the market full of soil
and little bugs even sometimes.
The salads were not coming from a bag.
My grandmother was always washing the salad this way.
First of all clean your sinks with a drop of bleach
in order to clean it and disinfect.
Then fill both sinks with cold water, add a drop,
like a tablespoon of vinegar, on each sink.
Bugs don't like vinegar, so what will happen,
they will curl and drop to the bottom of the sink.
Cut the root part off. Then the salad will open up.
Cut off the outer part of the leaves.
This one is good.
So go through the leaves. My salad is is pretty nice,
so there's not much to remove.
Here it's a bit yellow on the green side, so take it off.
Pick up anything brown or any dark part on the leaves.
Same thing here. Pick it up.
This is the outside leaf.
It's pretty dark and wilted a little bit.
I'm not going to use it. Same thing here.
It's very dark and thick. That will be quite bitter.
This one is okay, just trim off the end here.
This one I want to remove the top.
There's a little bit on the side here.
Same thing here.
Those sides here are pretty tender,
so I'm going to use them.
This is pretty dark and thick.
Rinse well. [water splashing]
When you wash your salad make sure you have plenty of water.
Then pick up the leaves and transfer to the second bath.
[water splashing] And you can see on the bottom
of the sink a little bit of the dirt.
Then dry the salad.
You may use a salad basket or you can use a regular salad
spinner. [spinning noise]
If your second water, you can see some sand on the bottom,
or dirt on your second bath, then do it another time,
another time until the water is totally clear.
This is very important.
This is the only way to make sure there is no sand or dirt
in your salad.
Refrigerate it for a good week without having it get rotten.
So you will need a damp towel.
Then place your salad on the towel.
I'm going to keep some for my salad
that I'm going to make later on.
Wrap it.
Place the salad into a zip-lock bag.
Remove the air a little bit.
Even though your salad will keep fresh for about a week.
I would recommend you to eat it as soon as possible
as the vitamins will start to disappear within a few days.
It's that easy. 300:03:33.240,1193:02:47.295 Let me show you how to preserve your salad.