How do you get your lettuce dry after washing it? I encountered this problem today, and I was determined to solve it. However, I did not just want the age-old method of using a spinner to dry it. You know, those salad spinners where you push the button down and the contraption spins. Yea, no. I absolutely hate those things.

So I did some research on Google and found a few very interesting ways.

• Use a salad spinner (yuck!)
• Put it in a paper towel and dab it dry
• Use a dish rack
• Use a mop
• Shake it REALLY hard
• Put it through the spin cycle of your washing machine
• Spike it through your car antenna, and then take it out for a drive
• Use a ShamWow
• Freeze dry it

Those are just a few of the good results I have found. Here is some others, though they are not as good as the above.

• Use a washcloth
• Put it in the oven
• Put it in a SaladSac
• Put it in a pillow case and shake the wet out of it
• Use a blow dryer
• Throw it in the dryer for 30 minutes

Got any more extreme or interesting ideas on how to dry your lettuce?

tags: dry, lettuce, extreme, ideas

Category: Food, August 2009