How Do You Shred Lettuce And Cabbage, Restaurant Style?
• Begin with a head of lettuce or cabbage. • Peel off any visibly bad leaves from the outside. The head should get fresher as you go inward. • Locate the thick stalk and have the flat side towards the cutting board. • Slam the head of the lettuce stalk straight down against the cutting board. Pretend there is a nail on the cutting board and you are using the stalk as a hammer. Hit it with about that much force. This will break the stalk, and now the stalk will pull right out. Pull it out and throw it away in the compost. Cabbage doesn’t do so well with this method, so it will be much easier if you cut the head in half through the stalk to the top. Then cut the stalk out by cut along the outline of the shape of the thick wedges. • For the lettuce, Flip the head over so the hole from the stalk is facing the ceiling and chop the head in half vertically. • Turn the head at a very slight angle (about 5 degrees) to the left. • Chop vertically only and slowly turn the half-head until you have
