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  • From: sunnfarm AT netscape.net
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu ("Market Farming")
  • Subject: RE: lettuce in Ice water
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:22:34 -0500


Allen, When you dip lettuce into cold water and if there is some rot on any
leaf that rot can get into the water and infect every head, warm vegetables
absorb cold water but donot absorb warm water, when cleaning vegetables
always use warm water, we have found this especially true with washing bell
peppers and melons.
Lettuce is best cooled with a vaccume cooler, my co-op bought two of them
last year they look like giant 1950's vintage canister home vaccumes except
these are large enough to hold a semi trailer and cost about a quarter
million dollars each, small growers can easily build a forced air cooler that
works similar to a vaccume cooler if you have a walkin refrigerated cooler,
you build a plywood box roughly 4x4x4 ft square put a door in front and
chicken wire shelves inside, place lettuce on shelves, seal the door as tight
as possible, you install a 10" kitchen fan in the top of the box and cut a
10" hole in the bottom of the box, locate the box in the cooler which is set
as cold as possible, turn on the fan and it will suck cold air into the box
forcing air over the lettuce that draws field heat out of the lettuce...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

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  • RE: lettuce in Ice water, sunnfarm, 01/24/2002

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