How to wash lettuce? How to wash lettuce when eating it raw?

Everyone has seen lettuce. Its leaves have many wrinkles, and it always feels like it is not washed clean, which makes many people afraid to eat it raw. In fact, there are certain methods to wash lettuce. I will tell you how to wash lettuce cleanly and how to wash lettuce when eating it raw.

How to clean lettuce? How to wash lettuce when eating it raw?

1. Wash the lettuce with salt water

When washing lettuce, you can use salt water to wash it. After selecting the lettuce, put clean water in a basin, then add an appropriate amount of table salt, mix well and soak the lettuce in it. Take it out after soaking for twenty minutes, and rinse it with clean water several times. This will allow all the pesticide residues on the surface of the lettuce to be digested, and it will be safe to eat again.

2. Wash the lettuce with rice water

When you want to eat lettuce raw, you can use rice washing water to wash the lettuce. Divide the lettuce into leaves, put them directly in the rice washing water, and then shake them back and forth with your hands to make every leaf come into contact with the rice washing water. Wash off all the insect eggs and some impurities on the surface of the leaves. Then soak them in rice washing water for a while, take them out, wash them with clean water, and you can eat them raw directly.

3. Don’t wash lettuce with hot water

When eating lettuce raw, remember not to wash it with hot water, otherwise the texture of the lettuce will become soft and lose its crisp and tender taste. However, if you want to stir-fry the lettuce, you can directly blanch the lettuce in boiling water. This will remove all the parasites on the surface of the lettuce, and people will not experience adverse symptoms such as intestinal infection or diarrhea when eating it.