I'm wondering about other peoples techniques for washing harvested greens (mesclun, arugula, etc) Right now I dump the greens into a tub of cold water, swish them around for a minute or two and then put them into a hand cranked, commercial salad spinner (the orange one) and spin them for 40 revs then bag them up. It works, but the spinner is the weak point in the system as it's a real challenge to hold it in place while cranking, and only a few pounds can be spun out at a time. I'd like to find out what others are doing to get their greens washed and spun.
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Washing Greens
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Hello Matthias,
This is what we do for our weekly greensAfter picking, we wash three times with the hose using this method.
1. Fill the greens container with water.
2. Gently swish and lift the greens by hand into a second container.
3. Fill the second container with water and repeat the process two more times.
4. Then we run our greens through a commercial hand spinner before bagging.We don't know how many revolutions we do, but it does make a difference to have the spinner at the right height.(lower than counter height) We also spin and empty the water at least 3 times per load. Having originally used a small personal spinner,this method seems easier to us.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hey Matthias,
So far, I've stuck to using laundry tubs, dumping the greens into icy cold well water for a couple of minutes. For drying, I'm still happy with the repurposed washing machine, used on spin cycle. We actually already moved it to the new farm! There's a bit of getting a feel for it, so that you don't damage leaves, I mention that in the post. Dunno where I got the idea, but it works!
Posted 1 year ago #
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