Lettuce Leaf Rib

TastyReuben

TastyReuben

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Making a salad this evening:

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...and I'm curious if anyone removes the center rib from romaine and similar lettuce varieties?

I like the extra crunch. MrsT doesn't like it at all, so I usually cut it out, but chop it up for myself.

What do you do?
 
depends on end use . . .
for sandwich use, yes. the extra bite-crunch needed sometimes makes a mess of what's no long inside.....
for salads, only the really big/thick/tough bits.

ref "a milky substance unpleasant to taste" - probably won't see this unless you grow your own. freshly picked it does 'weep' sap - however I've never picked up on an unpleasant taste.
 
I don´t think I´ve ever consciously removed the rib from lettuce. It gets dumped into the salad, just like the rest of the leaf.
I´ve never found it "unpleasant" either.
 
I use mainly iceberg or 1000 lakes. I remove the hard white centre bit. It's just me, I don't like the white part, just the green part. The white part is tasteless.

Russ
 
rascal said:
I don't like the white part, just the green part. The white part is tasteless.
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To be perfectly candid, iceberg lettuce is pretty tasteless anyway, when compared to Bib lettuce, or Romano lettuce, or. in fact, any other lettuce inthe world.
 
TastyReuben said:
...and I'm curious if anyone removes the center rib from romaine and similar lettuce varieties?
What do you do?
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If it's thick I break off that bit of the stalk.

That's grass in general - I've not seen Romaine here.
 
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