At 03:24 AM 7/19/2004, you wrote:
Do you mean to say you can extend the life of lettuce?! I can't wait to try
this one. I've tried everything from using a carbon steel knife to breaking
it by hand, to no avail.
Jean Baugh
There is a product called Extra Life tm which will extend the life of your
lettuce and all the rest of your veggies and fruits, too, by neurtralizing
ethylene gas. It is a little green disc about three inches across, which
has some kind of pellets inside. You put it in your crisper drawer and
everything lasts longer. It works. Each disc is good for about three
months, I think. I don't know where you buy them, but Bed, Bath, and
Beyond is one place that has had them. Maybe an Internet Search will help
you locate them at a good price. Mine came in a three pack.
Another trick is NOT to use metal at all on your iceberg lettuce. I
learned this trick from the manager of a grocery store produce
department. Before storing your lettuce, either hit the lettuce hard on a
counter and pull out the core by hand if it comes loose enough to do so, or
else use a plastic picnic knife to get it out. I don't know why a
stainless steel knife would be bad, but lettuce and kefir and some other
things just don't seem to respond well to contact with metal. I have
tried rinsing veggies in CS before storing them, too. Have not run a
controlled AB comparison test to determine the difference, but intuitively,
it just seems to make sense that CS would help by killing bacteria on the
surfaces.
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