Why I'm Never Buying Lettuce Again... 

Cobb Salad Recipe: Ingredients: - 4 strips of bacon - 3 eggs - 4 beets - 5 radishes - Handful of sliced pickles - 1/4 cup of blue cheese - 2 heads of your favorite lettuces - 1 lemon - 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar - 1 tablespoon of fermented mustard - 1 tablespoon of honey - Salt and pepper to taste - Reserved bacon fat - Reserved oil from roasted beets Instructions: 1. Lay the bacon down in a single layer in an air fryer. Cook for 10 minutes at 375F. 2. In the meantime, get a pot of boiling water and hard boil your eggs. Boil for 10 minutes. 3. Once the bacon has finished cooking, remove them from the air fryer and save the rendered fat from the bottom of the air fryer into a small container. Dunk your hard boiled eggs into an ice bath and let sit. 4. In the meantime, cut the root and tops off the beets and place them into a large piece of aluminum foil. Drizzle over some bacon grease along with salt and pepper. Air fry for about 350F for 25-30 minutes. 5. Move onto prepping the rest of your ingredients. Slice your radish into thin pieces. Roughly chop up your bacon strips and pickle slices. Peel the shell off your eggs and give them a rough chop. Set everything aside. 7. Once the beets are done, take the skin off and cut into bite sized pieces. Set aside. 8. To a jar, squeeze in the juice of 1 lemon, apple cider vinegar, fermented mustard, honey, the grease from the bacon, the juice from the roasted beets, salt and pepper to taste. Close the lid and give it a good shake to emulsify. 9. Roughly chop all your lettuce and place into a large bowl. Add in your chopped eggs, sliced bacon, sliced radish, roasted beets, blue cheese, chopped pickles and pour over your dressing. 10. Using your clean hand or tongs, give everything a gentle toss to coat every single item in the dressing. Serve immediately and enjoy!

I buy the ‘living’ lettuce from grocery store. Comes with three types of lettuce. I gently separate them and plant them in my garden. And we have fresh lettuce all season!

Anytime a new video of Pro Home Cooks drops I make my mom watch it with me lol. We learned so much about lettuce today that I didn't even know existed. Time to power up my garden! Thank you so much.

I only just started gardening 4-5 years ago. At first, I was overexcited to grow all of the things. Now I only grow varieties I can’t easily get at the store or high dollar items. Greens and herbs of all sorts are definitely the biggest bang for your buck.

Another alternative is "Alfalfa Sprouts" grown in containers. I have grown these year round indoors and have greens for salad and sandwiches even in the dead of winter!

Love the recent farm + garden content!!! Super helpful, you are my favourite channel at the moment 😁

Pouring water through the leaves to drain is just going to get more dirt trapped. Much more efficient to do a 2 bowl method: wash in a bowl with enough water that there's a enough clear water space at the bottom, wait a few minutes for all the dirt to settle to the bottom, then pluck the leaves out into the 2nd bowl and do it again. If it's supermarket leaves, you can go direct from the bowl to the spinner but for home grown lettuce, good to do a 2nd bowl just to confirm all the dirt is completely off.

I grow my own lettuce hydroponically, but the problem is I live in Florida, so I have to add ice cubes to the water occasionally, otherwise it'll bolt quicker/taste more bitter due to the heat

Wow, I'm so jelly of your awesome greenhouse!

This inspired me. I've been going crazy with growing peppers and tomatoes, I need to elevate my lettuce activity.

Absolutely love how you edited the chopping

Mane, that lettuce washing water could have been used in the garden! Water is gold.

Great video! I love growing lettuce in my container garden! 🥬🪴

lol when you pulled out the industrial salad spinner! Love it! And, that salad looks so delicious!

This is very helpful. I've just started my own little garden set up. Don't have much space so using a couple grow bags & nabbed a GreenStalk during their recent sale. I love salads so lettuce, arrugala & such were 1st on my list. Just gotta figure out how to do it in this blazing south TX heat.

I love your garden to table videos❤ !!!! I look forward to seeing more of your little homestead 🥰

thank you for the info and inspo---one tip (a jammy 7-8 min egg is delightful) and a sow is a female pig. sow ("so" or "sew) your seeds!

Everyone has their own way of washing lettuce but I'm with you on the salad spinner. Been watching you since the BG days. Always interesting vids

You can grow lettuce in the summer - this is how - just like you use a cold frame for cold nights, you need an overhead dark tent to shade during the hot sun. With the sides open for morning and evening sun is all your lettuce needs - or if you have a tree for summer shade. If your lettuce is bitter it wasn't pampered enough keep up on water. Head lettuce is not a good summer choice. Lastly, if your lettuce bolts or become bitter - the greens taste wonderful when cooked.

My 1 rogue lettuce that volunteered in my Raspberry Barrels produced thousands of seeds! Found it today- and harvest the entire thing. Thrashed it on a large tray- removed the grubs and fed to birds, and was able to save thousands of seeds just from one plant! Got about 8 packets worth of lettuce seeds just from 1 plant!!!

My all time favorite salad dressing: * pumpkin seed oil (the best one is from Austria, Styria and make sure it is cold pressed) * balsamic vinegar * mustard * honey * salt & pepper Works amazingly with a simple green salad!

I always struggle to come up with a good dressing for salads. A dedicated video on dressings would be much much appreciated ♥

I really love growing lettuce. I've had varying success. I over wintered some so was able to enjoy fresh lettuce in March. The frost cover made the difference. Now I'm using shade cloth to see how long into the hot months I can grow lettuce.

Appreciate the washing & storage tips!

I live outside Chicago, zone 5b. It bolts before I can get a decent harvest. I grow swiss chard instead that will grow from May thru Nov/Dec without bolting.

Wow! Ur greens r gorgeous!!😍 Can't believe you're sharing all this awesome info! U r literally answering All of my questions re: correct way to harvest & keep lettuce growing healthy! Lol, even ur radishes!😍 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!!

Can you do a video about growing produce indoors? I live in an apartment and don’t have the ability to have a garden but I’d love to start an indoor herb garden and learn more about what I can grow indoors as well as how. I found your videos recently and you have really been inspiring my cooking! Thank you!

I love this kind of video! Please make more video of different crops.

Thank you so much for sharing. Even though lettuce was easy as crops to grow. I had a challenge growing up between the pets my soil and harvesting but now that I’m able to grow it and you’ve fine-tune the steps I’m gonna do better and be more organized with it thank you so much.

Lolol my lettuce bolted in March in one of the coolest areas of my garden.

It would be cool to hear about which varieties of a vegetable you like and how you like to use them in the kitchen.

I grow lettuce all winter in Northern CA. I have raised beds and I don’t even cover them! I just direct seeded some and it’s getting hot so will see how they do! Home grown lettuce is awesome!!

You might as well save that water from rinsing the lettuce to water the growing lettuce. - At least you know it’s not contaminated as the lettuce being rinsed is from your garden too.

You can grow lettuce year-round. I live in Texas zone 9A. Not happening here in the summer. Even heat tolerant lettuce can't take it.

Thanks!

Cries in Zone 3 growing zone.

I love growing lettuce. I tend to grow romaine types and marvel of 4 seasons.....best results and easy cleaning. I do try to get some in the heat of summer here in my Chicagoland garden, but even with a shade cloth I frequently lose that battle. I'm trying a variety called "summertime" but germination has been less than 50% so far. I love the beets in the air fryer idea, I will be trying that for sure. The commercial grade spinner looks excellent, but no place to store that monster in my kitchen. LOL

You're able to grow it in a raised garden box. My aunt started doing it about a year ago and hasn't bought any from the store since.

I AGREE! We can’t grow it in the summer tho. We are into the triple digits so have to buy it. Arrrrg!

Good job 👏

In my 7B (Middle Tennessee), I can't grow edible lettuce year round. It's too hot in the summer, and temps the rest of the year are too inconsistent. Spinach & kale handle the fall/winter/spring seasons really well where I am, but - for me - growing tasty lettuce is like finding the golden ticket.

Any chance you could do a video on strictly indoor growing of this kinda stuff? We live in Sask Canada where there's basically only 4 months a year that make sense to grow outside.

Great video 🇳🇿❤️

I think it's the same person as "Mile Zero Kitchen" that I subscribe to If you don't, there is a difference in the presence or absence of glasses that feel the same, the difference in the place where you live, and the type of cooking you make.

I've got my favorite type of lettuce (curly green, a.k.a. Lollo Bionda) growing spontaneously all around the garden like a weed, I simply let a few plants flower and spread naturally each season, in my climate it completes two full life cycles every year (and fall seeds survive winter on the ground without any intervention). It doesn't interfere much with my other crops and can even draw some leaf munching pests away from more delicate plants.

my mom grew leaf lettuce and tasted great

I grow a lot of lettuce, but unfortunately, I can't grow it all year round here. I just pulled out the rest of my lettuce, as it's been in the 100s for a week, and it was starting to bolt and taste bitter. I only grow outside in the spring and fall. I do grow some hydroponically in the winter, but the outside stuff always tastes better and has a better texture.

I'm in a 400 square foot apartment with no patio and a city with no urban gardens. The farmers market lettuce is 7$ a head and is filthy. The bin lettuce that molds in 2 days is my best bet. How would you fix this if you had no money to build or move?

Kale and Cilantro too!!!

Love all your videos. I have learned so much do you have a book ?

Problem is it doesn't last long. When the temps go up it bolts quick. When the temps go down it stops growing. Been doing it 40 years. Still beats store bought. Don't know what Zone 7b you're in but 7b east coast with or without cover no way 9 months out of the year

Leave in salad spinner and keeps great - mine is a cheap ikea one

Hey Mike! Thanks for sharing your salad recipe , i would like to gove you a tip to try and im sure you love this. After boiling your eggs , chop the whites into the salad and keep the yolks. Blend the yolks with mayo , lime joice , black pepper, sugar and garlics , abit of olive oil and vinegar. Add the dressing to your salad alongside some croutons , satisfaction guaranteed!

This is my first year growing lettuce, it’s so delicious I’m growing in a raised garden. I have lots of rabbits

Jelly..... in So. Cal. the critters are starving and everything disappears overnight..... :(

Should check out Goi Ga(Vietnamese Chicken Salad) and Goi Cuon(Vietnamese Salad Roll aka springroll)

Many, many years ago when my mom first tried gardening and had little experience with how much some things produce, she planted about 18 heads of lettuce and there was only the four of us, so we couldn't near all of it.

*cries in renting*

I always forget to water my lettuce after a few weeks 😂😂😂

Just place salad spinner in fridge after spinning. Keeps lettuce super crisp.

I loved to grow lettuce, but I like the crunch of Romain and iceberg... which are harder to grow & shorter season.

If you want fresh greens in the south, especially during the summer, you're better off growing things like vegetable amaranth and malabar spinach.

And advice or resources for people in hot climates? I live in Austin, TX so I'm definitely not worried about things freezing.

Lettuce likes cool weather, hot here in Texas

Do you grow spinach? I've been growing in my apartment. I'm just wondering how you prune dead leaves so I can make room for new leaves

Great

I live in Boulder CO and it's so hot (and dry or whatever!) here that all the lettuce anyone tries to grow bolts. Doesn't work.

Lettuce is pointless, but growing garlic, spring onions and herbs! Oh that’s money save!

Not quite sure I'd be saving money with how much it would cost to set up a greenhouse garden.

Fast food burger ads work on people, but so do salad videos work on me. I have a craving to make a delicious salad and wash some leaves.

I love lettuce but I really don’t care for salads with the exceptions of Greek salad and Caesar salad variations as sides not meals. All the lettuce I consume is used in wraps and sandwiches, burritos and tacos, wilted or sautéed, and dropped in soups , stir fries or couscous. Oh and used in Vietnamese style spring rolls the rice paper variety.

How do you manage the weeds that grow between lettuce and other vegetables that you grow?

bacon fat dressing. Amazing! I love growing lettuce in a greenstalk!

I have grown a few different varieties of lettuce, but I’m looking for lettuce varieties that look like a couple you have shown here. WHAT EXACT VARIETY OF LETTUCE IS THAT AROUND 7:56? It looks incredible! Also, what are your top favorite varieties? Thank you!!

I’m curious, what do you do with your excess? I can’t imagine you eat THAT much lettuce..

Do you make dressing to store in the fridge for multiple salads? I made a big batch a while back and eventually I think the oil separated and turned white...it was weird looking and I threw it out. I don't typically try to grow lettuce in the summer where I am because it's too hot. I know some are heat tolerant but when it's 110 outside the poor lettuce doesn't do well lol. But we only have light frosts that lettuce can survive so technically I can grow it all winter.

Not in the desert, and good greenhouses are expensive..... 90 mph winds don't help either 😢

not having a salad spinner doesn't mean the lettuce isn't washed - it's just not dried.

And lots less plastics. That's another reason I'm gonna start growing my own spinach too.

I'd love to grow veggies. Esp lettuces. Im bit sure i could keep the safe either from all the critters we have in the rural town here. And some classes in theses courses😢.

Where did you get your seeds?

My lettuce comes up every spring because I always let one or two of them bolt. Hundreds germinated in the lawn this year, which is great because I hate lawns. I told all the neighbors to help themselves.

The problem that my family encounters with our garden is that it gets demolished by rabbits/rodents if we don’t heavily reinforce it

The reality of it is $3.99 or $.27 (+ work, time, weather, garden costs) Im sure it tastes great, but at what cost. Between a normal work week, and weekend obligations most folks don't have the time/effort. If you have all the time its a great was to make your own food.

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Wouldn't you need to buy it in the summer since lettuce/greens are cold weather plants?

Honestly, idk how people grow so much without a ton of pest.

he feed the chickens with the salad and later the chicken is IN the salad HAHA

Slugs say hold my beer

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You do not live in Norway I see!!

Yeah yeah, yeah, you have a huge garden, I get it. Some people might not have one tho - and be jealous, like me, you know? Imagine that

i dont get it, you have to grow like 12 heads of lettuce - the electric bill, the water bill, nutrients already making the total cost you more than buying from a store... not everyone has space to have multiple heads of lettuce in rotation, nor extra money to grow that much lettuce just to eat a salad every other day.

Tear the leaf off close to the main stem with your fingers. They come off clean and easy and you dont leave that cut stump that goes brown from using your scissor/secateurs.

put water in the spinner and spin it with water in first. poor out water and spin dry. no?

All my greens grow very bitter and earthy flavor. Not sure why. Arghhh.

Let me just become rich to have the space to grow my own food sure 😭😭

I think lettuce cannot be used in the plural? 📌Please comment on the grammar rule...(Amateur Linguist☺️).... Found out that: "... The noun lettuce can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, 📌the plural form will also be lettuce. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be lettuces e.g. in reference to various types of lettuces or a collection of lettuces."

You will.

there's like 1 month a year I can grow this lol