And lo – a new experiment was born.
I’m still working on the Green Bags, since the matriarchs in my life said I wasn’t giving them a fair shake with the strawberries. “Greens,” they said “are a whole other story.” Mom and Grandma agree that they do a whizbang job of preserving leafy vegetation. And so here is our starting array:
The details:
- On head of lettuce, rendered into four approximately equal pieces.
- Each piece has a bit of the root base, thingy – in case this makes a difference.
- Each piece has had all falling off pieces of the exterior removed.
- One is in a Green Bag.
- One is in a Green Bag with a paper towel to absorb excess moisture (as assorted message boards have recommended).
- One is enjoying the open air.
- One is in a regular plastic bag.
- The whole g’schmear is in the fridge now – all sharing one plate.
Stay tuned…
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I hate to throw a wrench in your experiment, but I regularly put paper towels in my plastic bags (baby carrots, mixed greens, etc.) to absorb moisture and extend the life of the produce. Seems like a rip off if you need a green bag AND and paper towel.
However by having a green-bag control bit (GBCB), we can at least see as compared to the green bag paper towel bit (GBPTB) how that changes things. We can assume that any improvement between the GBCB and the GBPTB would be relatively similar to the improvement between just the plastic bag and a plastic bag with a paper towel.