We want our salad greens to be freshly washed, but we also don’t want them to be wet. Most people use a salad spinner to dry their greens after washing, but if you don’t have one you can get the same effect by putting your wet lettuce into a clean pillowcase and spinning it around like a centrifuge.
Culinary site Chow.com also recounts that if you have a plastic shopping/produce bag you can add the wet lettuce to that along with a few paper towels and then spin for the same effect.
Sam
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 8:42 PMI thought people used tea towels to do this? That’s how I dry my lettuce – open up a tea towel, lay down your lettuce, roll it up and spin it. At least then you’re using something in the kitchen, and don’t need to wash extra pillowcases
Dennison
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 9:41 PMI still remember an episode of Mr Bean where he used his sock off his foot :-)
Andrew
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 10:33 PMNew low for article content. This is possibly the stupidest idea I have ever heard. I’m removing Lifehacker from my RSS readers.