How do you clean lettuce for salad, clean off all the germs, parasites, microscopic bugs off of it?

Question

without adding toxic chemicals, and I don't trust just rinsing in water.
e-coli is in the news, but aside from that, there can always be other stuff on it that could even give just a mild stomach infection

Answer 1

soak lettuce in ice cold water and a little vinegar for 5 min., then rinse.

Answer 2

You're paranoid. You're letting political messages from the news scare you. Wash your lettuce in water. NO ONE in the history of mankind ever died or got sick from washed or even unwashed lettuce. They do have salad spinners though. Buy one at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or a cookware specialty store in a mall. After washing the lettuce, the spinner spins the lettuce so all the dirt and water come off and end up in the bottom of the bowl. Dont be afraid of you food, just cook it, eat it, and enjoy.

Answer 3

You rinse I guess putting junk on it would hurt the lettuce, maybe speacial veggie junk.

Answer 4

You can't protect yourself from everything eating anything fresh. If you want to be totally safe, you must eat only cooked food, and cook everything very well done; boil anything you cook for at least ten minutes.

There are microscopic things all around us, in your bed, on your towels, and humans immune systems might not in the long run work well if you deprive yourself of all these creepy crawlies. You might develop OCD and be afraid to go in public.
Be wary of going overboard on anything.

Answer 5

I dip it in warm lightly soapy water and then quickly rinse in ice cold water. Then the salad spinner.

Answer 6

are u OCD? just peel the outside 2-3 layers of the lettuce and its good.

Answer 7

for gods sake just rinse under the tape

Answer 8

I don't know what it is called, but they do make a veggie wash that you can use to wash them before eating..

Answer 9

I use "Fit" Vegetable wash.