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- Are y'all as picky as I am about your lettuce?
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Every day in that restaurant,
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I showed the team how to prep our lettuce,
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it's an insult to have a limp salad put before you,
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'cause more than likely,
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that's the first thing you're gonna eat,
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and it's gonna make a bad impression.
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So I know it was aggravating for the team,
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but we always had good, crisp lettuce.
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So today I'm gonna show you my way,
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how I solved the problem.
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Now, I've got regular lettuce,
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love the butter lettuce,
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and then of course, I've got the romaine.
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And romaine is, in my salads, I like a mixture.
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So let's start with the butter lettuce.
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Now, when I get home from the grocery store,
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this is the first thing I do,
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even if I don't plan on using it right then.
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a bucket full of ice water.
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And of course, we had, at the restaurant,
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we had those great big, deep sinks,
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and we'd have 'em loaded down with our lettuce.
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So this is what's gonna
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crisp our lettuce back up so quickly.
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But before we put it in our ice water,
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we have got to come in with a knife and trim that,
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there was no way that lettuce could drink water
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because it was almost like, you know, how blood clots?
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And so you have to open that vein up
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so it can drink water again.
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Now, the first thing I'm gonna do is-
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run it under my cold water,
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'cause we don't know what kind of
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insecticides they've spread,
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they have spread on our lettuce,
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so I'm gonna drop that down in that ice cold water.
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And then I'm gonna move on to the romaine.
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And I love romaine lettuce.
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It gives a lot of body to your salad.
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This one, they had just trimmed this one not too long.
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(knife clanging) And I'm gonna pull off
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And then again, I'm gonna wash it.
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I'm gonna try to pull it apart
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and let the water get down in there
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and clean it out good.
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And now I'm gonna stick that whole
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head of romaine down in that water.
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And lastly, the good old iceberg lettuce.
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And you gotta have iceberg lettuce
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when you are having tacos or something like that,
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but this is the mixture I would use
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if I was serving my family a salad.
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So, I don't worry about cutting that out.
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I just put it on my counter
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(lettuce thudding) and knock it real good,
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and just take out the whole core,
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(knife clanging) so I can get my water
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all the way down in there good.
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And again, you want to take off your pieces that-
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look kinda sad sack. (chuckling)
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And of course, if you go into a restaurant
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and order a wedge salad,
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there's a good chance,
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this may spill over now,
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there's a good chance
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that it's gonna be iceberg lettuce.
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So if I have room in my refrigerator,
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I'll take, like, a pitcher
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and put some water in it,
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and then stand my romaine up in that.
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But we would let our lettuce, you know,
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drink a little while,
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and then we would drain it good.
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All right, those tips are,
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got some brown on it, so.
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Oh, this butter lettuce,
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I swear it chews like lettuce, y'all.
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Now, all I do with that is I put it back in the container,
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there'll be enough water,
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and maybe not, maybe it's drained too good,
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so I'm gonna put just a little bit of water in there
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so it can continue to drink.
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You wanna make sure that where you trimmed it,
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that it's touching a little water.
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And then you wanna refrigerate it.
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we'd let this soak in the water for a little while.
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Then like I said, we'd take it out and let it drain.
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And I like to wrap mine in paper towels,
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and then in a dish towel.
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Like I said, if you have room in your refrigerator,
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don't hesitate to just stand that up
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And before you know it,
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this lettuce is gonna be so nice and crisp.
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It's gonna make a delicious salad.
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And this one, I do the same thing with it.
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I usually let 'em drain a little bit longer than I did,
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but I just wanted y'all to
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and the gist about what I'm saying,
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'cause some people would come in, maybe wash that lettuce
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and use it immediately just like it was.
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because your family will love you
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for serving them a beautiful, crisp salad.
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What are we gonna have for supper tonight, Eddie?
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- Sounds like we need to have a salad, doesn't it,
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with all this lettuce? (chuckling)
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So I hope this little video
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with any lettuce things.
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Like I said, I am a real,
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I'm a prima donna about my lettuce.
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That's all I got to say.
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So lettuce do it good.
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Love and best dishes. (chuckling)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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