Water Is All You Need to Revitalize Raw Vegetables
Many things in life get wet with moisture, such as paper or expensive blow-dried hair. But plants don’t work that way. Water makes them plump, crisp and crisp. Understand this fact and you will never suffer from raw salad again.
The physics is simple: Plants are made up of microscopic cells, and each cell has a semi-solid wall. Fill these cells with water and they will become plump like overflowing water balloons. They only wilt when they dry out.
Don’t believe me? Take a limp, neglected potted plant and pour water over it. This will revive, like this:
The same goes for vegetables in your refrigerator. Have you noticed that the fresher part of the refrigerator, where vegetables stay crisp for longer, has walls so the contents don’t dry out as quickly? Or what if you keep asparagus in a glass of water , it stays fresh until you eat it, or it dies a natural death? Or does this young lettuce in bags not wither, and the same leaves left on the counter turn into a thin gruel in a few hours?
Don’t just take it away from me – ask this editor who wrote, “Today I went to eat my carrots and found them flexible,” but found that the carrots did not bend after a few hours in a glass of water. Or this one , which reports that the soggy trucks of sad lettuce are crispy again.
You don’t believe me, but it’s true
And yet, despite these truths, which you can read in biology textbooks and see with your own eyes, many of you will not believe me.
“My grandmother wipes every leaf of lettuce with a paper towel …” you say. (I regret to report that we’ve said something like this in the past.) Well, next time she does, put some leaves in a bag, maybe with a damp paper towel, and you’ll see your leaves last longer. … than her.
“I tried it once on a black, runny, rotten salad and it didn’t work.” Well, yes, this is water, not a time machine. If the vegetable is already rancid, your crisp ship sailed away.
“But the salad dressing makes the salad wither!” Yes, but not because it is liquid. Condiments usually contain salt or sugar, which draws water from plant cells. If you don’t believe me, put fresh strawberries in a bowl with a bunch of sugar. The next morning, you will find that the strawberries have shriveled and now their juice is mixed with sugar, resulting in a delicious syrup for your waffles. Sugar or salt will do the same with salad, but salty salad soup is not good for waffles.
“It only works if you also …” No. You don’t need ice and lemon , or any special spells or temperature manipulations. Just water. The water works. Thanks to physics.