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washing vegies and fruits
Can anyone tell me a quick way to wash cabbages, greens, fruits, etc clean with no dirt in it?
I haven't did it for a long time so I forgot and I didn't want to tell me dad when he told me to. Last time I took an hour and he yelled at me because they STILL had dirt in it. I was soaking them for hours and they still had dirt, or that I couldn't see them =( it makes me feel realyl bad when my dad scolds me
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this is what my mom does, and it works really well:
you get a big bowl and put it in the sink and fill it up with water, then put the fruits/vegetables in the bowl of water and sprinkle baking SODA (not baking powder) on them and let them sit for atleast 5 minutes. it works very well! hope i helped and good luck with it!
xo melissa
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hey...something that works for me to is use a veggie scrubber( most people use them to scrub dishes) while they are under cold, running water. Don't feel bad about your dad, I feel bad when my dad scolds me too!!! Hope this helped!!!
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You shouldn't need an hour to clean those. There should be no where near enough dirt for it to take an hour. Soaking works fine but you should also rub them as water falls onto them. Soaking alone might let the dirt get back onto the friut/whatever you're washing. Also ask your dad what he thinks would work better for him.
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Hi.
Soaking them doesn't usually loosen the dirt which is why it might not have worked. With fruits and such you can normally just wash them under a tap of running water and that should do it. Things like cabbages is more complicated though because there's leaves and dirt can be deep inside where you wouldn't normally be able to get to.
In large restaurants they usually have a hose attached to their taps which make washing vegetables and such a lot easier because of the pressure from the taps it loosens and washes away the dirt more easily. At home though it's not the same and whenever I have to help with the cooking (or cook myself) with things like cabbages or lettuce I seperate all the leaves (since no-one I know cooks them all attached as a bunch anyway). This way you can wash all the leaves and make sure that there's no dirt on them.
My mom makes a dish using spinach which again can take a while to wash if you wash all the leaves. Since she has to cut them up into small pieces first anyway she does this first and pops them all (cut up into small strips) into a bown with a mesh bottom. This way she can put them all under a tap of running hot water and give them a good and thorough wash all in one go (instead of doing one leave at a time).
Hope this was helpful. :]
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