Why do restaurant salads taste so much better than any salad I try to make at home, even if I use the restaurant’s dressing?
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Make better salads. I know it’s a really useless answer but that’s simply it. They’re using better, fresher, ingredients.
The best tip I can give you is don’t buy pre-cut ANYTHING. EVER. Anything that is pre-sliced/prepared is several days old BEFORE it’s chopped up. Then it sits in a bag before being distributed. Salads from restaurants start with the whole piece and break it down. Also they tend to pick out higher quality veg.
Garbage in garbage out is another key point; if you get shitty veg you’ll end up with a shitty salad. You wouldn’t believe the quality difference that can vary with fresh produce.
Also oils and vinegars can have massively varying degrees of quality. Fun fact: Costco olive oil tends to be one of the few places whose label is honest. If you’re not buying from a small batch high quality producer, they tend to be lying about what’s in the bottle.
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