I understand the idea of removing the basic dirt and grim that could still be left on the surface of the lettuce. But the idea that running the vegetable under the water has any help in sterilizing it has to be pseudoscience. Too many adults have this mentality that washing produce purchased from the grocery store drastically reduces your chance of food born illness. If your food is contaminated with harmful microscopic organisms in a food outbreak. I doubt washing it is going to change much.

There are customers visiting my company. I was washing my hand in the bathroom sink when one of them, after doing his business, put his left hand behind, opened the faucet with the right, wet his fingers, closed the faucet, and left. Disgusting piece of shit.

If you can't scrub every lettuce leaf with borax before you eat it, you don't even deserve a salad.

All the - small things.

Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.

The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.

Ha bacteria! It's not the water you should be worried about.

It's the quart gallon of vodka I wash it down with each night, as I try to blot out my existence.

Fuck you bacteria (and my liver), I WIN!

Err, your immune system can cope with a bit of bacteria. But if you don't wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself, your body will deal with it by extorting everything in your stomach. E.g. you'll puke the entire night. You're welcome.

Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?

You’re washing bugs and dirt off.

Yeah I just don't like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.

You wash because of the pesticides.

Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.

I don't know if this is effective, my wife soak the veggies in baking powder/baking soda, I forgot which. She said it kills bugs. Who am I to argue.

🎶 "All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt" 🎶