Can you toast lettuce and make lettuce chips? Like potato chips?

I think a food needs at least some starch in it to crisp up in a satisfying way.

Why not celery sticks?

@fred931 could I toast celery?

Do it with kale. Kale chips are delightful and will roast better because they have less water content. Rub them with olive oil, scatter some salt and pepper and put them in the over at a low temperature. Delightful! They do not keep well.

This recipe is what I use, but I use whatever kale I have on hand—usually curly.

@freckles Just eat celery sticks.

NOT TOASTED.

@fred931 Thanks, I eat those sometimes But I like chippy stuff! @EmpressPixie Ohh, I’ll have to buy some Kale. P.S. sweet name!

What you want is flash fried spinach. Delicious. One of my favorite restaurants uses it as a garnish. Unfortunately, it’s a fried food, which is not good for you.

Ooh, that kale sounds good.

I was going to suggest sweet potato crisps. My son and I love them for afternoon snacks.

I’m so sorry this is a serious question, but I’m even more sorry that I can’t think of a good way to make fun of it. Must be losing my touch.

@wundayatta

How about “if you are so concerned with your food being bland, tasteless, and completely devoid of nutritional value, I’ve got some shredded junk mail for you.”

@Seek_Kolinahr Jeez. I need to hire you to be my ghost writer! LOL!

No. Lettuce wilts. Kale will work. I particularly enjoy kale tossed in a pomegranate reduction sauce.

@wundayatta

Just sayin’, I like a snack as much as the next person. I’ll just choose some cold leftover steak, or a handful of almonds, over a wilted piece of Iceberg lettuce.

What’s wrong with baked potato chips?

OOps – I wandered into the yucky food thread.

I had the same thought as @AstroChuck as I read this thread…or are you really concerned about the carbohydrates, not the calories? If that’s the case, you might try turnips, they’re delicious and potato-like, but with way fewer “bad” carbs. Although I’ve always wondered how something natural that comes out of the ground like a potato can be “bad”, lol.

If you were to toast lettuce I think that you would end up with lettuce soup.

@Zen_Again replicator, i would like iceberg chips…>replicator screen< unable to replicate

No.

it’s already crunchy.. but why would you want it dry?

you have to vacuum fry the lettuce.

I’m pretty sure that’d cause the leaves to go all soft.

Have you tried dried seaweed? It comes in sheets and is used mainly for asian cooking, but a childhood friend of mine used to just eat it by itself like a fruit roll up! I liked it.

Ok, let’s some of us try this! Lettuce is almost all water, but given nough time in the oven… I think we should be able to do it.

Now Why someone would want to take perfectly good lettuce and turn it into practically nothing, and then eat it, I’ll leave to my fellow Flutheritos.

@6rant6 Flutheritos… 0.o slick.

@6rant6 Okay….so, I’m bored & it’s late, and I have lettuce. Here we go.

Here are my results, as if you’re all holding your breath to find out how it turned out.

I did two kinds of lettuce (iceberg & romaine) two ways. First, I deep fried lettuce pieces (about the size of an average potato chip) in canola oil, for about 4–5 minutes. Pulled them out to drain, lightly salted. Second, I roasted the pieces, sprayed with grapeseed oil, in a 450 degree oven, for about 10 minutes.

My opinion is, the end result is fairly unimpressive…the deep fried lettuce was not crisp overall (only at the edges). However, it was pretty tasty, lol, lettuce & oil & salt. The roasted lettuce was about the same, only the thinnest leaves (which were iceberg) were actually slightly crisp, but not like a chip. Just crisper than anything else in this experiment. Tasty though, with salt.

So, my opinion is, I won’t be making this again. If I’m going to fire up the deep fryer, it’s going to be for something worth it, like potatoes, turnips, maybe sage leaves, which are delicious deep fried.

By the way, lettuce is great raw, and it’s even crunchy already!

Hold on… you deep-fried lettuce because baked potato chips are too high in calories?

I am officially speechless.

@nope Wow, thanks for posting your results!

@Seek_Kolinahr LOL, don’t blame me. It was @freckles who started this thread, and @6rant6 who basically dared someone to do it. All I did was put together the experiment!

~looks~.

Ah. I see what you did there. Forgive me, I jumped the gun and assumed you were the OP. ^_^

@Seek_Kolinahr . Yes I am the one asking the stupid question!

Lettuce chips? Well that wouldn’t taste so bad I guess, but lettuce tastes exactly like the polar opposite of something fried as opposed to something not fried, without missing a beat. You could simply just eat a bag of lays potato chips. :P

Lettuce would disintegrate if baked or deep fried, wouldn’t it? It is all water. Take away the water and nothing is left.