Keep Salad Greens Fresh for a Month | Works for Store Bought Lettuce Too!

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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[ScooterFXRS]

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.

[franwilson]

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.

[jessstuart]

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.

[alizanderson]

All preservation tips are much needed here.

[TrinityRidge]

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!

[jenedge]

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

[beckystone]

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! ❤️🙏✝️🙋🏻

[RedNicole]

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.

[terraranch]

That was very helpful. I’m in my early 60s and never knew this. Hugs❤️

[michaellippmann]

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 🇨🇦 😀👍

[laurielyon]

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

[marksaake]

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)

[misskaren]

This is news to me. I'm over 60. Thank You!

[karenmiller]

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.❤

[reality]

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.

[ilovstodance]

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

[amandaahlers]

Youtube 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! 👩🏻‍🌾

[SouthernYankee]

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!

[sandrainontario]

Bamboo paper towels?! That one tip was worth the whole video! Thanks!

[niallwildwoode]

I've never seen a technique like that, but it's clever. IMO, there's no such thing as wasted greens.... they're either food or compost for the next crop.