Do you wash your pre washed lettuce with the vinegar again?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if you wash the spring mix/ spinach which already washed 3 times and packed already?
I have to wash it with the “organic” apple cider, rinse and dry before making the salad every time when my “super clean” SIL comes to visit. I don’t mind and I do it.
I’m not a sloppy person either. I can even assure that my bathroom is super clean compared to her own kitchen.
During TG week, she asked if it’s washed and had to respond: if she doesn’t trust, she can do it her way. So sick of it already. Each time or each TG is the same BS.
There are other more small things that gets to me. I don’t want to disclose in case she reads this forum.

[Anonymous]

No. I don't want my lettuce tasting like apple cider vinegar.

[Anonymous]

I wash all my lettuce with white vinegar and to the PP it never tastes like that because I rinse it well. That was an ignorant comment.

[Anonymous]

No. I didn’t know washing lettuce in vinegar was a thing. Seems like a waste of vinegar.

[Anonymous]

I have never heard of washing lettuce with vinegar

[Anonymous]

I rinse with water. No vinegar.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I wash the fruits and iceberg/Romain lettuce with the white vinegar. Per SIL, white vinegar doesn’t count. It has to be organic apple. The spinach / spring mix has to be soaked in the vinegar water. Even though it’s pre washed. I just don’t get it. Why does it need to be soaked?

[Anonymous]

Can you set aside lettuce for her to prepare in whatever way she wants for herself? Everyone else can eat normally, and she (and whomever she is concerned must eat organic apple cider soaked lettuce, like her kids or something) can perform the rituals as needed for her bowl of lettuce.

[Anonymous]

I just wash with water in the salad spinner. Not vinegar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I didn’t know washing lettuce in vinegar was a thing. Seems like a waste of vinegar.

Ditto. Water only here.

[Anonymous]

I have never heard of this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I wash the fruits and iceberg/Romain lettuce with the white vinegar. Per SIL, white vinegar doesn’t count. It has to be organic apple. The spinach / spring mix has to be soaked in the vinegar water. Even though it’s pre washed. I just don’t get it. Why does it need to be soaked?

Sounds like she has anxiety. Just let her do it her way if it bothers her that much.

[Anonymous]

white vinegar look it up that's what you're supposed to use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:white vinegar look it up that's what you're supposed to use.

The CDC says just use water.

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/leafy-greens.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:white vinegar look it up that's what you're supposed to use.

Based on what evidence-based source?