How To Keep A Chopped Salad Fresh For Up To Four Days

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In his how-to video, Clowers takes a big bowl of tossed, chopped salad—complete with bite-sized pieces of lettuce, slices of red onion and yellow bell pepper, and diced cucumber—and covers the top of the bowl with one or two layers of dry paper towels. Then he covers the bowl in plastic wrap and tucks it around the entire top and bottom of the bowl.

Here comes the secret: Clowers flips over the bowl and places it upside-down on a shelf in the refrigerator.

Clowers notes in the comments that he checks the mixture daily and replaces the paper towels as they dampen. With this approach, the salad appears to be as good as new after four full days.

Why It Works

How does this sorcery work when some of our bagged salad kits appear slimy after just a couple of days? The plastic wrap keeps the salad nice and humid so the vegetables don’t dry out or wilt as quickly as they might when stored open to the air. The flipped-storage style helps prevent a pool of water from building up at the bottom of the bowl, and the paper towel absorbs any excess moisture. These wicking details come in clutch since water speeds up the decay of everything from lettuce to grapes.

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