This Brilliant Catering Trick Keeps a Chopped Salad Fresh for Up to 4 Days [View all]

I’m going to try it!

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In his how-to video, Clowers takes a big bowl of tossed, chopped salad—complete with bite-sized pieces of lettuce, slices of red onion and yellow bell pepper, and diced cucumber—and covers the top of the bowl with one or two layers of dry paper towels. Then he covers the bowl in plastic wrap and tucks it around the entire top and bottom of the bowl.

Here comes the secret: Clowers flips over the bowl and places it upside-down on a shelf in the refrigerator.

Clowers notes in the comments that he checks the mixture daily and replaces the paper towels as they dampen. With this approach, the salad appears to be as good as new after four full days.

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