If you like your lettuce crisp, read this.

[sniffio]

Before eating,

Dump the old/new lettuce in a very hot water (around 50C/122F, say, a very very hot bath temperature?).

Wait 2 min.

It's now crispier than the fresh ones.



The atoms of the water are moving faster around this temperature,
they went into the lettuce really fast.
Hence the crisp.




Also if you want to keep your lettuce green and not turning them into reddish color,
do the same thing mentioned above when the lettuce is still green.
(Only this time, you do not have to wait 2min)

It will stay green.


You just shocked the lettuce with the hot water.

[sniffio]

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[Sheridan]

err, no.
you are supposed to use cold water.
Soak the lettuce in the cold water with a piece of coal for ten minutes.
sorted.

[wheezer]

temperature shock should work both ways, afaik?

good for treating diseased tropical fish as well, btw.

[adsr]

err, no.
you are supposed to use cold water.
Soak the lettuce in the cold water with a piece of coal for ten minutes.
sorted.

that's what I was thinking while reading this...I alway thought
hot water would actually wilt the lettuce...not to mention..
eating warm lettuce doesn't sound right...

[thembuzz]

phew, this is shaping up to be one HOT topic

[Lighter Thief]

Innit just. I love how Sheridan is so snooty about it as if EVERYONE who isn't a TWAT knows that you use cold water to crisp up a luttuce.

[Sheridan]

you know the best way to keep lettuce crisp is to not let it get wilted in the first place. ;)

[Smartie]

you could send it into space, in a vacuum it would neither wilt or go brown

[julian]

you could send it into space, in a vacuum it would neither wilt or go brown

i was under the impression that at low pressures, the temperature of vaporisation was reduced.

im not sure as in the vacuum of space, the water content of the lettuce wouldnt dissipate in such a manor as to offend your palate

[adsr]

phew, this is shaping up to be one HOT topic

I'm surprised that you aren't more animated about the topic,
seeing as your quiet fond of tossing salad...

[adsr]

i was under the impression that at low pressures, the temperature of vaporisation was reduced.

im not sure as in the vacuum of space, the water content of the lettuce wouldnt dissipate in such a manor as to offend your palate

please stop...

[thembuzz]

I'm surprised that you aren't more animated about the topic,
seeing as your quiet fond of tossing salad...

no, no. my exact words were: "tossing into salad"

[V Knid esq]

Dip it into liquid nitrogen it will be as crisp as you like.

[V Knid esq]

Same goes for tropical fish.

[sniffio]

eating warm lettuce doesn't sound right...

You don't have to eat it warm.
I should have put this line in, too.

"You can rinse it with cold water afterwards"

Even a single leaf of lettuce can be crisp when dumped in this hot water.
And it is said that it's crispier than the fresh ones.

[sniffio]

ok this tip sucks.
It did NOT work.
Fresh ones are fresher.
Those damm TV programs...

[Rhys]

lol

[thembuzz]

nooooooo! i was clinging to that. this is a barren, unforgiving world, i thought; it's harsh, cold and full of evil. but at least, i thought, i can make soggy lettuce crisp again. and now even that's been snatched away from me

[mdk]

I'm surprised that you aren't more animated about the topic,
seeing as your quiet fond of tossing salad...

thembuzz is well known locally as the 'tossed salad man'

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[Luke Handsfree]

"Toss my salad, let him eat me, then we straight, you know"

Urm...?