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- There's literally chunks of
lettuce all over the kitchen,

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all over the counter, the floor.

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(man screaming)

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(upbeat music)

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Welcome to another edition
of "Hack or Whack at Home".

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Today I'm joined by my new cohost

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life hacker, deputy
editor, Jordan Calhoun.

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- Hey Joel.

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- Hey Jordan.

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Welcome to "Hack or Whack"

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- Happy to be here.

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Today we're testing a TikTok
hack on romaine lettuce.

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(lettuce smacking)

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- Oh my gosh, it's perfect.

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- If you use this leafy green
for sandwiches or salads,

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one supposed hack for
being able to separate it

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from its stem is just Hulk smashing it

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against a surface and
they're all supposed to

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just fall out like flower pedals.

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- I can't think of anything easier to do

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than just test this right now. (chuckling)

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I'm kind of scared I'm
gonna hurt my hands.

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(lettuce banging)

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- Oh.

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- [Jordan] Three of them fell off.

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- Okay, I also got like
the three outer ones.

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- [Jordan] A couple of them

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are looking sad and hanging down.

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Did not work.

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- Maybe we try again.

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- [Jordan] And whack harder.

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- Oh.

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I'm gonna show you Jordan.

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Look cause this is the
core and it has fallen off.

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There's now lettuce everywhere.

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- [Jordan] All right, squeeze
it tighter, aim for the knob.

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Here we go.

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(table banging)

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(Joel snickering)

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Did not work for me,
my knob is still there.

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(table banging)

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It seems like it would be easier just to--

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- Just to pick them apart.

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- [Jordan] Break off the knob.

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There is lettuce all in my sink here.

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- So, you know the knob flew off.

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So here's the knob dangling
from this one leaf,

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but I'm still left with the core leaves,

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even though the knobs not
there, they're still attached.

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- [Jordan] I'm gonna try one last time.

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(table banging)

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- I'm not a green snob here,

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but I believe what you have

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is green leaf lettuce
from the farmer's market.

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What I have is romaine from
a bag from the supermarket.

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Yours is big and bunchy and leafy,

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and this is super tight that it's kind of

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bulging out of the core.

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- Bagged romaine seems
to be the better option.

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My beefy green romaine didn't
work out nearly as well.

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- Because of the mess
that this has caused,

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the number of times you
actually had to whack it,

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and how easy the alternative is,

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I think we're ready to call this hack.

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- I'm gonna call this whack.

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- I think anything that you can do

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with as little effort as
just peeling back one leaf.

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Or if you wanna get real fancy,

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take a knife and just go like that.

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- TikTok education failed us,

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but I've got a hell of
a lot of salad to come.

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(Joel laughing)