Keep Salad Greens Fresh for a Month | Works for Store Bought Lettuce Too!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2020
- I hate losing my harvest because I am unable to preserve or consume it fast enough. Here is a way to make sure you get the most from your greens harvest. This video shows you how to make your salad greens last a month or more in the refrigerator.
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Here are the bamboo paper towels we use: amzn.to/2Xo4g01
That 1870's Homestead I just purchased these through the link 😊. My mother in law has been doing this for years. My problem with this has always been the chemicals in traditional paper towels touching my organic greens - so a huge thanks for turning me on to these.
Oh and totally ❤️ your channel and what you have to offer!
These are rayon. Viscose rayon, a fiber made by dissolving the cellulose in the bamboo, and then extruding it to form fibres. This process removes the natural characteristics of bamboo fibre, rendering it identical to rayon from other cellulose sources.
When bamboo has been chemically processed into rayon and similar fabrics, there's no trace of the original plant left. If your goal was to buy something eco-friendly, those toxic chemicals and the rayon fabric they produced are probably not what you had in mind.
Rayon is billed as a more environmentally - friendly, potentially sustainable version vs petroleum fabrics. Unfortunately, when push comes to shove, it might be even worse.
Rayon is produced by dissolving cellulose in a process that involves sodium hydroxide and carbon disulfide. Once that viscous material is dissolved into a solution and allowed to rest, the solution is then turned back into fibrous cellulose, which can be spun into threads using sulfuric acid.
The most common form of cellulose used for this process is obtained from wood pulp, bamboo, or cotton, which means that rayon is often marketed as a “natural fiber.”
The “natural” cellulose that eventually becomes rayon is sourced from already receding rainforests. The same companies that strip-mine places like Sumatra and Indonesia for palm oil are also cutting down entire ecosystems to gather the raw materials that will be dissolved and reconstituted into the paper towels. I am using air. Electric. And for greens I use clean 100% cotton fabric.
Interesting. I've never heard of bamboo paper towels before. I'll have to get a roll.
I am planning on buying some of these for my mom and myself!
I have used this method for years, but now use damp cotton kitchen towels. No paper, no plastic and works like a charm on most greens - kale, lettuce, spinach etc.
Thanks for so generously sharing what you do. I’m learning so much! I’m 70, so you can teach old dogs new tricks. Really enjoy your channel.
All preservation tips are much needed here.
Happy preserving
Rachael I went yo the link for the Bamboo towels and it says each towel is good for 120 washings and that a roll last as long as a 6 months supply of paper towels !! I’d call that a great deal because a roll of these is less than $9.00 and you sure pay more than that for 6 months supply of paper towels!! Thanks for the storage tip and leaving the link for these towels in the description box! ❤️🙏✝️🙋🏻
We end up throwing away over 50% of the salad greens we buy at the grocery store because we don't get around to eating them soon enough. This year I converted about a 100 sq ft section of our yard into a "greens" bed. (lettuce, spinach, swiss-chard, arugula, kale). The idea is to stagger the planting so we have fresh salad greens throughout the summer.
I think it’s the older generation passing it down to their kids, and so on. My dad’s 70 and he taught me this. I’m in my 40’s and been doing it for years.
Never knew this. I actually lost my mother at 12 and prior to that she was sick from my 10th birthday on. She was a remarkable cook from Oklahoma so I bet she had some tricks like this. Thank you for sharing with people like me! Every little bit helps even tho I'm 60ish now. Stay safe God bless!
Happy to share
This method work great with cilantro, herbs, strawberries... pretty much anything that goes slimy quickly.
I also lost my mom at 12, so this video has been very helpful. Thank you ❤
Can’t emphasize the use of that vinegar enough. It’s made a huge difference in my produce longevity. Everything gets washed (but roots) with it and it’s made a big difference. I’ve moved to using vinegar in laundry and household cleaning too
Vinegar is the main ingredient here. It works to kill off bacteria and mold spores. Second the damp wrapping up the greens to help keep oxygen at bay and keep the greens hydrated.
That was very helpful. I’m in my early 60s and never knew this. Hugs❤️
Happy Memorial Day 🇺🇲
Very cool tip! We do something similar...my wife has sewn up several Terry Cloth bags with a string tie on top, we just wet the bag, insert our cleaned greens and drop into the fridge. As long as the bag is kept damp the greens keep for weeks and weeks. When we leave on our boat for 10 or so days at a time our greens keep the whole trip! We have some Terry cloth bags we made years ago and still going strong!
Thank you for the video!
Mike 🇨🇦 😀👍
This is such a great idea!! Thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
This is news to me. I'm over 60. Thank You!
Happy to share with you
I will have to look for those paper towels! What I do is take the lettuce from the store for example, break head lettuce up, romaine I just take bottom off, put them in a canning jar and use my food saver and dry seal them in the jar. They stay so much longer. I do my strawberries that way and they can last 2 weeks in the fridge
i think these are what we have amzn.to/2Xo4g01
My dad left the farm for the city when he was 19. Shortly before I came along he and my mom moved to the suburbs.
It sucks to have not been passed the torch like every generation prior had.
Salad spinner is one of most used items in my kitchen! Not only for spinning salad dry, but for drying anything (frozen cocktail shrimp, fresh rosemary, etc). Plus it also works as a general purpose colander (drain pasta, berries after washing, etc)
Sounds handy
Best tool in a restaurant for washing herbs before slicing
It's not common knowledge. Thank you for teaching this old lady a nice new trick💜
Watching this late as I just lost all my
Lettuce and was wondering if there was a way to save it. This is very helpful. I’m starting lettuce again so I’ll do better now!
TH-cam suggested this video from last year. Love your short videos on helpful tips.
1) I have no idea where I learned this method of storage so long ago. But it works like a charm. I used it when I ran a cooking school and taught high school culinary arts.
2) I use the vinegar wash (then rinse it off) for berries and I've had them last a month stored between paper towels in a container with a lid. I think I tried it with greens/herbs once and I must've added too much vinegar. Will be trying again.
3) I switched to using a 2 gallon ziplock bag. I could fit two rolls of greens/herbs vertically and could press out most of the air better instead of the roll being katty-corner in the gallon bag.
4) thanks for the tip and link to the bamboo paper towels. I tried bamboo toilet paper once and didn't like it.
5) BONUS tip for you to try. One of my former cooking school assistants taught me this and it changed my life...for real. I always hated how fast celery and green onions went limp/slimy in the fridge. So, now I wrap them in a paper towel and then in aluminum foil. I literally get 3-4 weeks of crisp celery. My home grown onions lasted a month. Some people have issues with aluminum foil. I feel the paper towel both absorbs excess moisture and prevents excessive direct contact with the foil. My doctor has never mention high levels of aluminum in my blood work 🤷🏻♀️.
Have a blessed day! 👩🏻🌾
Unless you get a test for heavy metals in your system it won’t show up.😉
wow! that's brilliant. the complete opposite of what i have learned. i have heard paper towels help preserve lettuce a lit'l longer but not rolled and not damp. i learned to break the lettuce like a rabbit putting your lettuce into survival mode then jarring them to preserve your greens for about "10" days for prepping lettuce for my work lunch salads.
option: place a folded dry paper towel on the top of your lettuce to "absorb" the moisture before you screw on the lid. which i thought was whatever... i usually didn't.
i am looking forward to trying your method. store bought lettuce and greens go bad sooo... quickly. i got turned onto your channel today, august 14, 2023 from becky, at
acre homestead. she made a pineapple zucchini bunt cake??? i was fascinated! i had no idea all of the different recipes you can make with the plethora of zucchini harvest.
i have scrolled through your fabulous videos and have watched at least a half a dozen today. i am retired. you have created excellent information. thank you. blessings. 🕊
ps: mercy, i am just remembering that my m❤m use to do the same thing with her lettuce but in a hand towel!!! she also damped her ironing and rolled up each item then rolled them in a hand towel placing them in one of the 2 crisper drawers in our refrigerator. which was totally disturbing for me. i didn't pay much attention to the lettuce because i knew ironing was in my immediate future. it did make ironing all cotton shirts easier. yeah! back in the day before permanent press cloths and paper towels.
Please keep giving us these ways to preserve our food. I’ve never heard of this before and I have a big problem trying to keep my food from going bad. Thank you thank you much!!
You got it!
I just turned 60 and never knew this!! Thank you so much. This will help tremendously.
Proves we never stop learning 😉
Here in Canada you can purchase bamboo paper towel at Canadian Tire. I love the idea of not using so much disposable products like regular paper towel. Thanks for sharing this!
watched this twice on canning greens when I did have my garden i did can greens not as good as you Racheal you have shown and taught me a lot my heart acks of all I lost hubby took away from me but I had presto canner given to me , with my congestive heart do little made applesauce June 13 cried and cried thank you DIANE BOLT ONTARIO CANADA
The sound of you rummaging threw the leaves at the beginning was some ASMR. It sounded sooo good, made me want a salad
I thought I had been well educated in homesteading, organic farming, and food preservation long before today's common reawakening; but, I had no idea. My Gram used to can all salad greens in one way or another, and in fact, often grew things that were easier to preserve and store as opposed to today's 'salad greens'. Don't ever assume. Any sharable knowledge you have to offer is exactly what the human race needs, I wish people would get that. Love everything you guys have to share, including your example of morality through example instead of preaching. This 'old Crone' has learned a lot through your example, keep up the good work. Luv Ya All from 'Cowtown Alberta" (Canada)!
VERY HELPFUL. Walmart only sells big bags of salad greens, and I am 1 small person.
Bamboo paper towels?! That one tip was worth the whole video! Thanks!
I've never heard the paper towel trick. I will be using it from now on! THANK YOU. Your videos have taught me so many things...spooning onions, parts of plants I never knew I could eat, and on and on. So helpful. And I was even raised on a farm! Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome! We try hard to give as much knowledge along the way as we can. #cheers 🍺
Nope, this was not common knowledge to me and thank you so much for sharing this! In the past I would use the salad spinner and refrigerate but my greens would wilt inside of a few days. You just saved me a lot of time, hassle and money. Also you are saving me from the disappointment of losing my hard work and effort to spoilage.
So frustrating to loose your harvest before you can consume or preserve it
I happened to get an abundance of greens today and was wondering how to store them... thanks to the TH-cam algorithm this popped up in my feed 😁 Thank you! It may be common knowledge, but it's new for me.
What a great tip. I was always taught to put a paper towel in the bag of store bought greens but now that I grow my own never thought of doing this.👍🏻🥬❤️thx
Well here you go! Consider it a friendly reminder ☺️
Wow I'm 53 I didn't know this cool I'm going to try it
Happy to share with you
I know you seemed like the information in this video wasn’t new to anyone, but it was to me! And I’ve been around a long time! Thank you for sharing this simple method. I’m so tired of feeding wilted greens to the chickens. I used your affiliate link to order the towels to do this method on my next lettuce harvest. Keep up the good content.
That is awesome! Thank you for supporting us by using that link. Make sure you come back and let us know how it worked out for you. We'd love to have you around with us. 🍓
Just an FYI.... they specifically plant trees for paper products. When they cut down the trees they replant trees again. We don't have a shortage of paper so enjoy using paper in any form you like. I know this because I live smack dab in the middle of a five hundred acre pine tree farm so I know a little something about where our paper comes from and whether or not it's sustainable.❤
Thank you, I appreciate you passing this information along.
Glad to learn this trick!! Thank you for sharing ❤️
I never knew that because my salad stuff always goes rancid pretty quick I will be using this thank you so very much
Your videos are always so helpful!!! Thank you!!!!
Wow Rachel!!! Thank you for this video!
I tried this with my Romaine lettuce and it stayed fresh for a month! Great tip. Thank you! :)
Awesome
I do this using tea towels. Works great.
I have never seen this method, thank you for the video!!
Thank you for the tip, it will definitely come in handy!!!
Thanks for this video, I plan on trying this today!
Thank you so much for sharing! I have such a hard time with keeping my greens crisp and fresh. I’m going to try this next harvest for sure
Thank you! I dislike composting money 🤣🤣🤣 this Is definitely happening tonight!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
I buy head lettuce iceberg from store. I keep it in frozen ziplock bag. Dont have modern salad cutter; i chop by hand with knife- im working progress eat more salad to improve my health.
I finally bought a salad spinner last year, and it's amazing how just a few spins gets rid of all the water. I think it was 30$ from Bed, Bath and Beyond. And with a coupon of course, it brought it down to 20$. (Those coupons never expire, I love that.) I felt a little guilty spending that money, but I never regretted it! Then I also gently wrap my lettuce in a paper towel and into a baggie. I can't wait to try the bamboo paper towels. Thanks for sharing, I always LOVE your videos. God bless you and your family, and have a beautiful day🤗💕
Nice deal
I found mine back in Feb at a thrift store that was going out of business - marked $5 & was half off. Glad that I bought it.
I love all the windows over your sink area!
Thanks! Never knew this! Love the tip on bamboo paper towels that are washable! 💕
Thank you for this video. I did not know about Bamboo towels.
That's how I do my fresh herbs, but never thought of doing that with my lettuce. Thanks for sharing! ☺️
I basically do the same except I’ve never rolled them. I will try that! Thanks!😘
I give mine a quick spin in the salad spinner to remove water. Then lay out to dry. I found I can vacuum seal in 1/2 gallon mason jar and they stay fresh longer. Love your channel. Planning to can spicy mustard, which I watched you make! Thanks for sharing. 🥰
Great Idea but How do you vaccumn seal a 1/2 gallon mason jar. Thanks
@@patriciasweet9102 to vacuum seal mason jars, there's a device you can get that fits over the cap and pumps the air out. I got the rechargeable one for less than $20. Works wonderfully for anything you've dehydrated!
Thank you...first time gardening this year and my romaine is ready....thanks again very helpful!
Oh My!!! I never knew this. Thank you!!!
This is exactly how I've been storing my greens for years and I can attest to the fact that it works very well :-)
It really does work
Thank you, I discovered that after many failures. The bamboo towels keeps fruits like berries fresh for a long time as well!
I've been trying to figure out how to prolong the life of my greens, not for my own consumption but for my dear lizard I take care of who needs greens in his daily diet! My roommate showed me how to use tin foil but it's so wasteful that I knew there just had to be another way. Going to be giving this a try, without the vinegar though, as it's not safe for my handsome lizard to consume.
I’ve never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing
I'm new to your channel and I love it! Your home is so beautiful!!
Wow! No I never knew that nor have I seen anyone do it so thank you! I will definitely try this! ❤️
Awesome
Thank you for the video I was actually just bringing in some lettuce I have never grown lettuce before so this was very helpful.
Anything that looks like it might start to go bad whether it’s leafy greens, fruit, other vegetables etc I freeze on a cookie sheet or plate(after cutting up the fruit and vegetables into bite size pieces) then bag it up and store in freezer for when I use it in my morning protein shake or soups etc I rarely throw anything out and that includes already cooked leftover vegetables. What is not edible goes in the compost for the garden. After the large kale or Swiss chard leaves freeze they will often crumble up and be easier to store in the freezer. Thank you for sharing your cleaning and storage of greens in the refrigerator.
WOW! Love the washable bamboo “paper towels! 🤩👏✌️”
Thank you for this bit of info
Great and very helpful video.
I do that with my greens also and with cilantro and parsley it helps a lot.. Love when you give tips we don't all know the same ones😊 thank you 🤗
I've never tried it with my herbs, but I will next time I do a harvest
I have a bearded dragon that LOVES leafy greens, but I could never figure out how to keep them fresh. This has helped me a lot thank you so much!
Thank you for the insight on bamboo paper towels. Looking it up right now!
Pinned comment at top has a link.
Great tip, I figured this out years ago, somehow. It really helps!
It sure does
I’ve never heard of this. Growing lettuce for the first time this summer, so I appreciate the tip!
It so frustrating to see our own harvest go to waste I hope it help. Just remember the towels should just barely be damp, not wet
I've been doing this for years :) Great video
This storage method is GENIUS!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! I was storing dried washed arugula leaves in glass container with dry piece of paper towel on top - it makes them last like a week. But definitelly not a month!
Thank you so much! I had never seen this!
Thanks
Rachel! This was amazing! I love that you don’t even have a fancy salad spinner. I learned a lot and I look forward to trying this. We waste a lot of greens right now :(
EXTREMELY HELPFUL!! Thank you. I’m very new at gardening and I don’t know what I’m doing BUT I’m learning! Thanks again, nothing about gardening is common sense (except watering ) lol ❤
I needed to learn this.
K...Gona Try It. Thanx
Super helpful! Thank you!🥬🥬
I definitely need to take the time to do this! Thanks for sharing
Your welcome
Thanks for the tip on the bamboo paper towels. What a great idea. I used my bottom drawers in my fridge. I rinse all my lettuce, add it to the drawer and cover the drawer with plastic wrap. I stack loose leaves for romaine. They are cold, green and crunchy weeks later. Now I added the paper towel. When I run out of space in my drawers for ready useable greens. I will use your method to store the extra heads and leaves in my garage fridge. I saw another gardener who, blanches and freezes Kale, etc. I am going to try it. Thanks Rachel!
Ty I'm going to try this
Looks great.
Great ideal! Thanks
Wow! Thanks for the tip! I haven’t ever heard of this way. Gonna try it!
Hope you find it helpful, keep cut greens in a single layer if possible
Thank you
Thanks for sharing this
It works for cilantro as well. My Chinese Auntie taught me that. I’ve never tried it with greens though. TY Rachel.
thanks for the tip on the bamboo paper towels being washable. we bought some recently because that is all the store had left.
In not sure all are but the ones I purchased are more like cloth than paper
Very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you ❤
I did not know that! Thank you for sharing.
thank you!
Perfect timing, thank you for posting how to wash and store greens. I always have a vegetable garden but only planted lettuce recently. I needed to harvest the romaine but wasn't sure how to store it. I just harvested, washed and rolled it up. I need to finish my store bought lettuce first so will eat my homegrown next week.
It'll be good. Just keep it in the fridge and it'll last a long time.
Excellent work. Class
Sooooo helpful...thanks a bunch :0) Picked some today and will be picking more greens tomorrow and definitely giving this a try. Happy gardening!
Best of luck to you on your gardening season!
@@1870s As a matter of fact I just finished washing and placing greens on paper towels and putting in gallon ziplock...gonna do this with my radishes too (picked those this morning also). I went ahead and did some cilantro since that's growing abundantly right now. Same to you...especially with your garlic! It's the first year I'm growing garlic and seems to be doing well.
Wow what a great tip- I do have a salad spinner but I think I will try this. Cheers Denise- Australia