🥦 How to PROPERLY wash vegetables | Canto Cooking Club #Shorts

Are you cleaning your vegetables properly? Some produce, like broccoli, are especially hard to clean as bugs and insect eggs can hide in crevices 🥦 Daddy Lau shows how to wash veggies thoroughly in our new course, the Canto Cooking Club.

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[jusuferg]

The saline content must be much higher for any degydration of bacteria cells to occur. The bacteria must also be exposed to the salt for longer time. As for insects and insect eggs, they will be dissolved by enzymes and the acid in our stomaches and be what my mom says "extra protein".

[sparkyheberling]

But won't the bugs be killed anyway, when the food is cooked?

[fee]

Vinegar and baking soda works
Very awesome.

[p.a.]

Hi Lau team: sorry, but this tip and its reasoning are misguided. The video uses a kernel of truth but unfortunately draws a pointless piece of advice from it.

(1) First and foremost: this video shows the use of about 17g of salt in a couple of litres of water, for 2–3 minutes. The processes that you describe for bacteria will not occur at that concentration and in such a short time. If you look at some of the literature, you will see that you need much higher concentrations of salt and longer contact time to kill a meaningful amount of bacteria.

(2) The video also does not acknowledge the existence of halophilic and halotolerant bacteria (which thrive in and tolerate saline environments respectively). That is, a saline solution actually *promotes* the growth of some pathogens – although, as with point 1, this will not occur in such a short time anyway.

(3) In any event, for cooked vegetables (like broccoli), food-borne bacteria will be killed by the cooking process. For cooked or uncooked vegetables, the bacteria (and critters) can be removed mechanically by washing them in fresh water – there is nothing meaningful to be gained by including salt in that process.

[KatieDeGo]

I have worked in a microbiology lab. We actually use a NaCl broth to help grow certain bacteria.

[Moi_]

There are so many folks that don't even bother to rinse.

[cranberryjuice]

wash off the free protein? no thanks i paid for those eggs and i’m going to eat them

[viet]

Thank you, Uncle Lau .. everyone is still learning. Really appreciate ur sincere heartfelt advice . I enjoy your channel.

[suckerburg]

Good intentions. Great guy with awesome recipes. This is just wasting salt though.

[birbdad]

Broccoli is also slightly hydrophobic. So its basically pointless.

[pamelahawn]

I was amazed by how throughly Asian rinse their food before using it...I think much of the food is rinsed during the processing.

Now, after seeing Asians rinse so much i have started rinsing my vegetables. The water does have fine sand in the bowl.😮

[Wuffskers]

In the words of Jacques Pepin, if it can survive me cooking it, it deserves to get me sick lol

[bitokay]

I do baking soda and salt for 20 min soak . love this

[JV-nlts]

Thank you I love to learn when it comes to cooking and dealing with food! Tell your dad thank you you have a great day!!!🙏🙏❤️👍. JV

[NaBi_]

use vinegar, salt doesn't do anything to bacteria!

[Darkstormsun]

people in comments are fools. even if cooking will get rid of bacteria and insects, its still good to rinse before cooking. you get rid of any excess dirt or pesticides. even more crucial if you get it fresh picked.

[xJayom]

you can just cook the broccoli. Heat does all that without wasting another bowl of water and salt 😂

[Barefootclimber]

You will need a ton of salt, and won't we have to leave the broccoli in the salt water for longer.
When we cook that stuff gets killed anyway.

[dagneytaggart]

What is the approximate salt/water ratio?

[sng]

It depends with the type of vegetables and where you get them from.