I'm so embarrassed. Last night I took a salad to a party prepared with our loose leaf frilly lettuce, each leaf carefully washed under running water and shaken off, and a slug/snail crawled across a friend's plate who was eating her salad right beside me, its little antennae sticking up proudly. She laughed it off, had been raised on a farm, but I was mortified. I don't know how it survived the washing >:( Any suggestions? besides not taking my salad out in public ever again?
Add some salt to the water you wash the salad in?
it shows you're not using pesticides :D
I soak mine for an hour or so - the slugs genrally walk up to the top... I'd rather eat the odd slug than a bit of metaldehyde. Actually, that's not true, terrible really.
just tell her she got the organic salad with free range slugs :-X
Forgotten to mention rinse off with unsalted water - got to watch those arteries (well I have to).
Quote from: big J on May 22, 2008, 12:13:03
just tell her she got the organic salad with free range slugs :-X
hahahahaha! I'll tell her that! And the salt soaking sounds like a good idea and never crossed my mind. Thank you! :D
I use a plastic salad spinner, cheap contraption from Wilkinson, seems to fling nasties to the sides & off the salad leaves ;D
In our house, if salad doesn't come with wildlife its authenticity is challenged. ;D
in France people sometimes wash lettuce in water with vinegar added, they say it kills beasties like aphids?
I have found a slug in my salad before though, you just pick them out ;D
My father in law scoffed chard once and I saw the little slug go into his mouth in it and he didn't notice. EEK! Mark had a shield bug in his lottie lettuce so now I shred or seperate the leaves and fling them in the washing up bowl filled with cold water and leave them for a bit first, as said before, most of the creepies will crawl or float to the surface. I think the worse I ever did was served some purple sprouting broc which was infested with white fly....as people started eating and I poured the water away, I wondered what all of the grime was in the cooking water....then I realised!!!!! Oh the joy of being chemical free.