Should I Cut Or Tear Romaine Lettuce?

cut or tear them away from the stem :

• Cut the leaves off your romaine, leaving approximately 2′′ of the stem.
• Place the stem in a small dish filled with water. …
• Put this dish a warm, sunny place in your house (such as a windowsill).
• Replace the water every few days and leave your little romaine lettuce like this for 5-10 days.
• Watch it grow. …
• Enjoy! …

Romaine lettuce nutrition is generally considered to be better than that of iceberg lettuce when comparing equivalent serving sizes. Each serving of romaine lettuce has 15 calories. In terms of vitamins and minerals it contains: Fiber (7 percent of your daily recommended value) Folate (29 percent of your daily recommended value)

Method 2 Method 2 of 2: Harvesting the Outer Leaves

1. Harvest the lettuce in the morning for fresh, crisp leaves. If you pick lettuce leaves early in the day, they won’t have been dried out by the sun.
2. Pick the 6–8 outer leaves first to prolong the harvest.
3. Snap off romaine leaves with a sharp twist.
4. Harvest the inner leaves once they’ve reached about 4 inches (10 cm).

Steps to regrow Romaine Lettuce

• Cut the leaves off your romaine, leaving approximately 2′′ of the stem.
• Place the stem in a small dish filled with water.
• Put this dish a warm, sunny place in your house (such as a windowsill).
• Replace the water every few days and leave your little romaine lettuce like this for 5-10 days.
• Watch it grow.
• Enjoy!

Six benefits of vacuum-sealing lettuce to keep it fresh:

1. Prepare 7-10 jars of ready-to-eat romaine lettuce in 30-45 minutes. These numbers may vary depending on the freshness of your lettuce and how fast you work.
2. Keeps lettuce from turning brown. The vacuum-sealing process removes all the oxygen from inside the jar.
3. No getting out your chopping board and salad spinner every day to make a salad.
4. On the run?

And is Iceberg Devoid of Nutrients?

No and no. The frequent admonishment to never cut lettuce with a knife, lest the cut edges turn brown faster than hand torn lettuce leaves, is a myth. Many cookbooks still carry the statement that a knife may “bruise the leaves.”

Since Romaine and leaf varieties of lettuce have become so widely available, our treasured iceberg lettuce, with its leaves perfect for hamburgers and sandwiches, its crisp texture and taste that doesn’t bully a salad, has been much maligned. It’s tasteless, mostly water; it’s a nutritional pauper, they say. Well, I beg to differ.

As above, iceberg owes its popularity to economics. This firm head lettuce was easier to ship and got to the store less damaged. We (used to) love iceberg because we grew up eating it, being that it was pretty much the only lettuce many of us ever saw, as children.