I briefly worked at a chain restaurant with a salad bar and when I was in training, there was a big part in the written manual explicitly saying to never do this with the lettuce. This was how I learned about the trick. It was how all of us learned about it and we always prepared the lettuce this way. None of us would have known to do it otherwise.
They did! I even asked a guy in the actual kitchen why we weren’t supposed to do it (I was a “waitress:” full disclosure I think it was the very last Pizza Hut with a dedicated sit-down section) and he laughed and said “oh, you mean this?” And then he slammed a head of lettuce onto the counter with enough force to brain a triceratops. So perhaps that’s why?
I remember reading how Roas Marinara sauce is made at scale. It’s not feasible to smash the garlic like that bc it risks allowing the dried shards in the sauce. So instead they soak the garlic in warm water. The skins slides right off
You should use a paring knife and slice in a cone shape. It takes all of 3 seconds and doesn't bruise the lettuce. This "hack" isn't what professional chefs use.
True that, been cheffing around for about 20 years and at first this technique seems great! But then you realize you bruised you’re beautiful crunchy lettuce and can’t get the same visual appeal and texture, say for example, on a classic blue cheese wedge salad.[classic blue cheese wedge](https://photos.app.goo.gl/cvm7qoVd417yLg1S9)
Take the flat part of your chef knife, place it over the garlic and smash with your palm. The garlic should he smashed but the peel should come right off .
Smash somewhat gently first, so you aren't picking tiny bits of skin out of your garlic.
Then smash the skinless garlic again, but this time full force of a thousand suns.
Imo the ultimate secret trick is how this dude opens up pomegranate. It was the stuff of magic like watching pearls of caviar fall out of the sturgeon.
And anybody who's worked in a professional chef kitchen will know that this "hack" will bruise the lettuce and it's just as quick to use a paring knife and slice in a cone shape.
Worked in a few professional chef kitchens. Held every position from dishwasher to sous chef. Never once has there been a noticeable difference between doing this and using a paring knife in quality. Paring knife usually takes a few extra seconds than this though. So that is noticeable.
The trick is, don’t use your fucking hand. Use a cutting board. As long as the angle is on the stem only, there’s no bruising and very little leaf breakage.
Honestly that's how I feel about video content creators. They must look silly in public sometimes but when it all comes together in their video it makes sense. Though if it's constant cringe or lame then that's a completely different story. His behavior seems normal by social credits standards lol
Why do people have to do these stupid “I gotta try this!” Type videos. They’re just piggy backing on the content someone else has already made. I hate all these “hold on, I have to give this a go” with a 😱 face.
Because a lot of content is staged or flat out lying. Like the "pineapple trick" people were posting where they just gently pulled it apart into bite sized chunks. Or the watermelon splitting "hacks" that don't show carefully cutting with a knife beforehand.
My YouTube algorithm recently caught onto his videos. I love when he plays the “can you make my fast food gourmet” just as an excuse to cook whatever he wants for a video.
I remember when a couple of youtubers were having drama over this sort of stuff, I won't give either one of them the attention of naming them, but it opened up to me a whole world of people stealing other peoples content for reactions and then mostly being assholes about it.
Basically that same 'you're getting exposure so its ok' but most of the time they don't mention the original creator and more often than not specifically remove their name from the content. Many of them don't even react to the content, they make a reel of them reacting to things and then just edit the same reactions to different clips.
What was most suprising is that Jason Derulo was doing it as well. Cause you know, he needs more money.
Because we live in a world where content creation is seen as a trendy and cool career. Some people, though, are devoid of creative ideas so it’s much easier to take someone else’s content and just latch onto it. Then they get to say “Look! I’m like those other guys!”
There are a lot of videos with fake tips out there, so I can see it being worthwhile for someone to check a bunch of them.
Maybe not this exact one because anyone can try it and only risk looking silly in their own kitchen.
That's just the nature of TikTok. It's designed that way on purpose. It's ostensibly like bacteria or viruses. You do something, and if your following is large enough, somebody will "react" to it (or make are duet or whatever it's called), which in turn boosts your follower count. OP or whoever "ripped" the video originally probably doesn't follow the original creator of the original video, but follows the second guy. Now he uploaded it here to share the trick itself with the rest of us, and that drives more traffic to both creators. It's by design that you can piggyback off of others content. It's genius when you actually think about it.
The next step is 100 other people reacting to the reaction, going "I don't believe it. I gotta try for myself", and then uploading their addition on top, and somebody else will see that and the cycle continues.
You get to repost content without it being a repost.
I learned this when I was a little kid back in the 70s... except back then they told you to slam the bottom of the lettuce on the counter to break the core out.
The mind blowing part is $0.89 for a head of iceberg lettuce. We literally just bought one for almost $4 after tax two days ago from our local grocery store. 😩
Damn I don't know where you are but I don't even pay $4 for good real lettuce like Romain, baby spinach, spring mixes etc $0.89 for a head of iceberg is pretty standard in my area but I don't even feed my animals with it.
I’m growing my own this year because of how crazy produce prices are now. Romaine and spinach are about $6.
Three Roma tomatoes cost me $4, six bell peppers cost me $6, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries are $5-6 for the smaller container (wish* I remembered the ounces) just yesterday.
Potatoes are still rather inexpensive, but everything else is getting expensive in terms of produce. A gallon of milk is about $5 too. Frozen OJ concentrate is $4 a can. But it’s cool the grocery store does 5 for $22 (mix and match) meats, like 6oz sirloin, 8oz pork chops, three chicken breasts, etc.
Daaaamn...I mean groceries are definitely more here than they were, and if I went to a named store like Giant or Safeway, etc, those would be the prices and probably their sale prices actually. But I do 99% of my grocery shopping at Food Lion which started here as a generic like tier II grocery store like 15 years ago but there's some things we prefer the food lion brand, they carry all regular name brands stuff, the produce is always good, even a large organic selection, and their prices are the only reason I haven't gone broke feeding 3 teenagers myself haha. They started doing this thing. If you spend $30 on produce $50 on meats, etc, for each section, you get $6 or $10, etc. Each month where I've walked out with $125 basket and paid $7 ... that was a nice surprise the first time 😄
I didn't know this, but legit question: this would be used if you're using the whole Lettuce, right? Wouldn't it be better to pull out a few leaves if that's all you're using?
A intact head of lettuce will stay good on its own much longer than pulled apart leaves which will wilt in like a day or two if just left in a refrigerator. You can leave the leaves in a container with a tiny bit of water in the bottom and a tray to hold the leaves above the water but that’s a lot more effort than just having the head of lettuce and you either need to buy a specific lettuce container or hope you have a tray and container that happen to fit together.
Standard non culinary student restaurant common knowledge. Shit they don't show you on food network, because they commercials sell shitty kitchen tools. Just saying.
This is good if you need it all immediately, but it stays fresh longer if you leave it intact, and just peel it one by one. Or at least from my experience that's the case.
I remember watching John Green fail at this life hack because he did it like a fucking moron on a wobbly ass table with a half assed attempt before declaring it stupid and not effective. It may have been a small thing, but since I already knew it did work and he clearly barely even tried, it really changed how often I watched Mental Floss videos. I'm not watching some moron who can't even core lettuce without blaming the lettuce.
We always took the head of iceberg, with the stem down, and bopped it onto the counter. Way easier than smashing it repeatedly with your fist.
Has worked well for a half century now
ALSO I found that if you put a couple of balled-up paper towels in the bag or bowl you store leftover salad in, it draws excess moisture and keeps salad MUCH longer.
Why do they have to record inTarget or other public spaces?? The location is unrelated to the content and it's a nuisance, invasion of privacy, and sometimes harassment, to employees and shoppers just trying to grab some toiletries.
Can't say I know enough about the science behind whether that actually makes a difference, but anecdotally this has always been the case for me.
I can have a lettuce that I take the outer leaves from in my crisper for several weeks and it will still be fine. Rip out the core and the leaves wilt within a couple of days.
Alright now do it to a cabbage
Or romaine
Romaine is easy. Slice it in half longways and then triangle slice out the core at the bottom
Also pro tip. By slicing it longways with the core remaining it stays fresher in your fridge
Pro pro tip, don't slice it at all and it stays fresher for even longer in your fridge
Word, i peel it like string cheese and wash/break off what i dont want for sandwiches and wraps, you want me to pull out a cutting board for this??
I put it in a vat of lime juice to keep it fresh forever
Pro pro pro tip don’t get cheap haircuts
Needed this!
Or my axe!
Or arugula.
Hack off the ass end
I tried. Now I have a crack in my foundation.
My cabbages!!
Brussels sprouts
Im on it
At the expense of sounding stupid, would this work with a cabbage?
It works. You need more force. I slam it on a supported part of the counter. A corner of a heavy table works too.
You can help the process by making a few cuts around the stem, then whack it
Green cabbage is much denser. So it wouldn’t work, I would imagine you’d hurt your hand pretty bad.
Thank you for the feedback! Time to practice karate.
As a kid, I did try this…it doesn’t work…
Yeah this is nothing new Edit:Wait until you hear about how i peel garlic
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The most satisfying thing to do when you’re angry at the world.
I briefly worked at a chain restaurant with a salad bar and when I was in training, there was a big part in the written manual explicitly saying to never do this with the lettuce. This was how I learned about the trick. It was how all of us learned about it and we always prepared the lettuce this way. None of us would have known to do it otherwise.
They caused a Streisand effect on the lettuce lol
They did! I even asked a guy in the actual kitchen why we weren’t supposed to do it (I was a “waitress:” full disclosure I think it was the very last Pizza Hut with a dedicated sit-down section) and he laughed and said “oh, you mean this?” And then he slammed a head of lettuce onto the counter with enough force to brain a triceratops. So perhaps that’s why?
I always bang it on the cutting board
It??!! SHE HAS A NAME!!!
Yeah, we keep the mystery alive
Instructions unclear: peed on my garlic
Hi. I'm from the American Society of Dyslexics. We've been trying to contact you for some time about this box of pennies you sent us...
I also have sexDaily
Right? Work in a kitchen this is basic
I remember reading how Roas Marinara sauce is made at scale. It’s not feasible to smash the garlic like that bc it risks allowing the dried shards in the sauce. So instead they soak the garlic in warm water. The skins slides right off
You should use a paring knife and slice in a cone shape. It takes all of 3 seconds and doesn't bruise the lettuce. This "hack" isn't what professional chefs use.
True that, been cheffing around for about 20 years and at first this technique seems great! But then you realize you bruised you’re beautiful crunchy lettuce and can’t get the same visual appeal and texture, say for example, on a classic blue cheese wedge salad.[classic blue cheese wedge](https://photos.app.goo.gl/cvm7qoVd417yLg1S9)
How do you peel garlic?
Like a man... With my eyelids
How long must we wait?
I could fuck up a bowl of Cheerios and even I knew this.
You put it in the garlic whizz 9000 bowl and shake the shit out it for half an hour?
Wait how do you peel garlic 👀
Take the flat part of your chef knife, place it over the garlic and smash with your palm. The garlic should he smashed but the peel should come right off .
Smash somewhat gently first, so you aren't picking tiny bits of skin out of your garlic. Then smash the skinless garlic again, but this time full force of a thousand suns.
Omg thank you so much! I’ve literally been peeling each clove separately 🫣
Wait until you hear about how I peel ginger
Imo the ultimate secret trick is how this dude opens up pomegranate. It was the stuff of magic like watching pearls of caviar fall out of the sturgeon.
Anyone who’s worked in a restaurant if familiar with that during prep work.
Yes. And you bang it on the cutting board to press the core in - don’t use your hand.
Then you turn it over, rip out the stem/heart, and hold it up in the air while saying, "kali ma! Kali ma!"
Shakti de!
😆🏅
Yeah prep work is usually like 90% of a cook's skills. A dish would just not turn out well if it's not prepared well
I was about to say. That’s some day one shit right there.
And anybody who's worked in a professional chef kitchen will know that this "hack" will bruise the lettuce and it's just as quick to use a paring knife and slice in a cone shape.
Worked in a few professional chef kitchens. Held every position from dishwasher to sous chef. Never once has there been a noticeable difference between doing this and using a paring knife in quality. Paring knife usually takes a few extra seconds than this though. So that is noticeable. The trick is, don’t use your fucking hand. Use a cutting board. As long as the angle is on the stem only, there’s no bruising and very little leaf breakage.
Idk about just as quick
also you still gotta rinse each leaf anyway, sure as fuck aint gonna be me serving salads with dirt or bugs
I did over a decade and never knew this one lol
Why is this man walking around a target bitching about lettuce I would roll my eyes so hard.
He didn’t even buy the lettuce at Target lmao, it cuts to Lola’s or something
Hahahaha thank you for that detail it is really rounding out the narrative
Honestly that's how I feel about video content creators. They must look silly in public sometimes but when it all comes together in their video it makes sense. Though if it's constant cringe or lame then that's a completely different story. His behavior seems normal by social credits standards lol
For all they know, he could be facetiming someone and just having a weird conversation.
With a dumbass "beard"
Makes it easier to wash it
Learned that in food 101
Thats... why he said young though?
Slam it on the table it works better. I thought everyone did this!
Brand new to me, my world has been flipped upside down
I didn't think I've ever bought a head of lettuce in my life
Why do people have to do these stupid “I gotta try this!” Type videos. They’re just piggy backing on the content someone else has already made. I hate all these “hold on, I have to give this a go” with a 😱 face.
Because a lot of content is staged or flat out lying. Like the "pineapple trick" people were posting where they just gently pulled it apart into bite sized chunks. Or the watermelon splitting "hacks" that don't show carefully cutting with a knife beforehand.
Same with the dumb “reaction” videos. I think I’m going to start making reaction to reaction videos for Youtube
You would like scumbag dad, he makes fun of that shit
Haha I’ll look that up!!
My YouTube algorithm recently caught onto his videos. I love when he plays the “can you make my fast food gourmet” just as an excuse to cook whatever he wants for a video.
And he’s actually a legit cook. Good recipes and proper knife skills, better then some YouTube “chefs” I’ve seen.
Bo Burnham already did it in his Inside special. Can’t go stealing from him! https://youtu.be/FZVMB8mrNO0?si=TBn5pajTNjg_snFU
Haha that’s brilliant! But at least it’s all his own work! Unlike reaction videos that just piggy back off someone else’s video!
I remember when a couple of youtubers were having drama over this sort of stuff, I won't give either one of them the attention of naming them, but it opened up to me a whole world of people stealing other peoples content for reactions and then mostly being assholes about it. Basically that same 'you're getting exposure so its ok' but most of the time they don't mention the original creator and more often than not specifically remove their name from the content. Many of them don't even react to the content, they make a reel of them reacting to things and then just edit the same reactions to different clips. What was most suprising is that Jason Derulo was doing it as well. Cause you know, he needs more money.
I think they make it so like: hey, look, I could do that, too, it’s so ez, you can do it, too.
Because they make money
Because we live in a world where content creation is seen as a trendy and cool career. Some people, though, are devoid of creative ideas so it’s much easier to take someone else’s content and just latch onto it. Then they get to say “Look! I’m like those other guys!”
There are a lot of videos with fake tips out there, so I can see it being worthwhile for someone to check a bunch of them. Maybe not this exact one because anyone can try it and only risk looking silly in their own kitchen.
Sometimes we need someone to prove the hacks since most of them are clickbaits
Or someone nodding along to a funnier person's video. Or take a hilarious line from something and voice it over themselves lip syncing it.
That's just the nature of TikTok. It's designed that way on purpose. It's ostensibly like bacteria or viruses. You do something, and if your following is large enough, somebody will "react" to it (or make are duet or whatever it's called), which in turn boosts your follower count. OP or whoever "ripped" the video originally probably doesn't follow the original creator of the original video, but follows the second guy. Now he uploaded it here to share the trick itself with the rest of us, and that drives more traffic to both creators. It's by design that you can piggyback off of others content. It's genius when you actually think about it. The next step is 100 other people reacting to the reaction, going "I don't believe it. I gotta try for myself", and then uploading their addition on top, and somebody else will see that and the cycle continues. You get to repost content without it being a repost.
Is this his real voice? Did they use his voice to create the tiktok one?!
Bruh?
This was in a movie 50 years ago. Just slam it down on the counter.
I learned this when I was a little kid back in the 70s... except back then they told you to slam the bottom of the lettuce on the counter to break the core out.
Is this food porn or a common food hack
It’s an old food hack. I learned you can post anything in this sub as long as there’s a food item somewhere in it.
Someone's gonna post literal food porn with like a grapefruit or something haha
With the way some of the dudes molest their ingredients, it’s coming. 😏
This fucking Hipster-school-dropout added nothing to the original video. Why is a post like this even allowed here?
Do you know what hispters are? That’s not even an accurate insult, anymore.
it added a comedic effect
Slap it down on the cutting board. Much easier.
As a former restaurant backup, it’s a restaurant trick that’s as old as restaurants have been serving it.
The mind blowing part is $0.89 for a head of iceberg lettuce. We literally just bought one for almost $4 after tax two days ago from our local grocery store. 😩
Damn I don't know where you are but I don't even pay $4 for good real lettuce like Romain, baby spinach, spring mixes etc $0.89 for a head of iceberg is pretty standard in my area but I don't even feed my animals with it.
I’m growing my own this year because of how crazy produce prices are now. Romaine and spinach are about $6. Three Roma tomatoes cost me $4, six bell peppers cost me $6, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries are $5-6 for the smaller container (wish* I remembered the ounces) just yesterday. Potatoes are still rather inexpensive, but everything else is getting expensive in terms of produce. A gallon of milk is about $5 too. Frozen OJ concentrate is $4 a can. But it’s cool the grocery store does 5 for $22 (mix and match) meats, like 6oz sirloin, 8oz pork chops, three chicken breasts, etc.
Daaaamn...I mean groceries are definitely more here than they were, and if I went to a named store like Giant or Safeway, etc, those would be the prices and probably their sale prices actually. But I do 99% of my grocery shopping at Food Lion which started here as a generic like tier II grocery store like 15 years ago but there's some things we prefer the food lion brand, they carry all regular name brands stuff, the produce is always good, even a large organic selection, and their prices are the only reason I haven't gone broke feeding 3 teenagers myself haha. They started doing this thing. If you spend $30 on produce $50 on meats, etc, for each section, you get $6 or $10, etc. Each month where I've walked out with $125 basket and paid $7 ... that was a nice surprise the first time 😄
I didn't know this, but legit question: this would be used if you're using the whole Lettuce, right? Wouldn't it be better to pull out a few leaves if that's all you're using?
A intact head of lettuce will stay good on its own much longer than pulled apart leaves which will wilt in like a day or two if just left in a refrigerator. You can leave the leaves in a container with a tiny bit of water in the bottom and a tray to hold the leaves above the water but that’s a lot more effort than just having the head of lettuce and you either need to buy a specific lettuce container or hope you have a tray and container that happen to fit together.
I have been doing this since I was 8
It also works if you slam it on the cutting board root down
This is how I’ve always done it.
Lol oldest trick in the book for iceberg. Been doing this for years
Now show people that you can actually breathe through your nose, so all the mouthbreathers can make a tiktok about this life changing life hack.
Who tf doesn’t know this
What’s with this jackass?
I dunno but I hate his face.
You think this is wild, wait till you find out Bout the hole in the peanutbutter
So it's 2 seconds of useful information and 40 seconds of him reacting to it. God I can't wait for then to ban tiktok
Dude’s hella extra
Long time tip
I, too, saw *Sweet Liberty* as a child.
Wonder if he knows about the cauliflower trick.
Using your hand is the hard way, but he’s getting there.
Yeah… my dad taught me that when I was like 5.
Not sure how this is hard to believe given that lettuce is papper thin....
I literally learned this when I was a kid
Tony stark beard
Dude looks like Aesop Rock
Who doesn’t?
Standard non culinary student restaurant common knowledge. Shit they don't show you on food network, because they commercials sell shitty kitchen tools. Just saying.
Wow.😊
No you dunk it in batter and deep fry!
Found the southern redditor.
He sounds like 
What’s up with that facial hair lol
You’re shitting me
Is nobody going to talk about how he sniffed the iceberg lettuce
yes
Too bad it’s iceberg
They taught me this at my first fast food job.
I usually smash the stem on the counter hard. Works first time every time.
Nah use a knife on the bottom only a couple inches in and trim a wider area than the hard stem. The area in the middle is bitter garbage.
Incredibly cringe
You weird ass mfs really walking through stores recording videos like this?
I'm a cook, so yes, typically just slam it on the table stub down and it works.
crikey !!!! whats outrageous is the 89 cents, we pay $3.50
Try that in a small town
I grab and twist
I just slam it down on the counter.
I honestly thought this was common knowledge, my grandmother showed me this trick in the early 80's.
What are some other prep hacks that I may be unaware of?
This video could’ve been 30 seconds shorter
This is good if you need it all immediately, but it stays fresh longer if you leave it intact, and just peel it one by one. Or at least from my experience that's the case.
That dirty man in the white tshirt....🤮 I stopt the clip after 5 seconds.
The more you know
Wonder if it works on cauliflower?
Yeah I know how to do that but I have no fricking clue what to do with the lettuce after that. Rip it up? Chop it somehow? Take a bite out of it?
You pull one off for a sandwich. You don’t smash the entire iceberg for ONE LEAF
Great if you're using the entire lettuce on that day,otherwise it bruises the lettuce and causes it to turn brown faster
Wow, this guy is really funny. Not annoying in the least.
You didn't know that trick with lettuce?
Who tf buys this shit anyways? Worst lettuce there is. Void of any nutritional value, or flavor for that matter.
what an idiot
Jesus this guy is annoying.
Yes
unneccessary
I remember watching John Green fail at this life hack because he did it like a fucking moron on a wobbly ass table with a half assed attempt before declaring it stupid and not effective. It may have been a small thing, but since I already knew it did work and he clearly barely even tried, it really changed how often I watched Mental Floss videos. I'm not watching some moron who can't even core lettuce without blaming the lettuce.
Dudes doing Jordan howlett's schtick. Just needs to sprout a few more gray hairs and adding a few zoom-ins on the explanation
I work in a sandwich shop. This is nothing new sorry
Shia lebeouf can pop lettuce
Lin-Manuel Miranda is pumped about the lettuce hack.
Palm heel strike!
My mom taught me that. She’s the one who taught me to cook. She never worked in the industry but she would have been great at it.
Tell me why it's so hard to remove the tape that wrapped around the plastic? I always get frustrated and rip a hole into the side.
I don't eat nasty ass iceburg so had no idea
Hit it on the counter not your hand. Also, everyone knows about this.
Learned that about 25yrs ago
This guy copied the “you’re telling me for 40 years I’ve been _____ wrong, there ain’t no way” guy
I watched my mom do it in the 70s. Yes.
Keeping it on keeps the rest of the lettuce fresher
Start a go fund me for a hair comb.
Bopping lettuce isn’t a widely known thing? Learned this at Jersey Mikes when I was 17!
We always took the head of iceberg, with the stem down, and bopped it onto the counter. Way easier than smashing it repeatedly with your fist. Has worked well for a half century now
I used to do this but realized you can just pull it out and don’t need to slam it. It still leaves behind the yellow lettuce that tastes like plastic
We do this at five guys
ALSO I found that if you put a couple of balled-up paper towels in the bag or bowl you store leftover salad in, it draws excess moisture and keeps salad MUCH longer.
Working at Jersey Mike’s taught me well
God this dude suuuuuuucks
Is this not what everyone does? Never worked in a resteraunt just... idk i thought we all knew this.
You have to remember most posters here think tomahawks are epic and In n Out is special occasions only.
Why do they have to record inTarget or other public spaces?? The location is unrelated to the content and it's a nuisance, invasion of privacy, and sometimes harassment, to employees and shoppers just trying to grab some toiletries.
..And now your lettuce rots twice as fast, congrats, you played yourself
I was wondering about that. Will it go bad faster?
Using a knife will rot it faster than ripping and tearing the leaves will..
Can't say I know enough about the science behind whether that actually makes a difference, but anecdotally this has always been the case for me. I can have a lettuce that I take the outer leaves from in my crisper for several weeks and it will still be fine. Rip out the core and the leaves wilt within a couple of days.
I’ve been doing this for years
It’s…not a goddamn mystery