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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A place where I worked sold the salad dressing but in the salad dressing we served we actually added things to it.
The ranch salad dressing comes out of the packets. You can pick up the packets at the store and mix it with buttermilk. Doesn’t last as long so beware.
have you try to grow your own lettuce salad You must try it. The flavor of homegrown salad greens is way better than from the instant “pick and plate” salads. This is due to the extreme freshness.
Wash and dry your lettuce/greens first, add a pinch of salt/pepper, and make your own simple dressing of oil/vinager with pepper.
I feel like most people make salads at home with the premade stuff or just toss some lettuce into a dish.
Whatever else you consume at the restaurant like drinks or other dishes might make the salad taste different. Like how pairing a good red with a particular cheese makes the cheese taste better then if you ate it with nothing else.
The fact that someone else made it can have can make it seem better too.
If someone makes a pizza for me at work, it tastes a little “better” for some reason lol. If I make it, then its just a little more boring.
It’s a little placebo effect I guess.
If you’re using bags of pre-cut lettuce in your home salad then the taste difference may be the weird gas pumped into those things to keep them from oxidizing.
Simplest answer: you did make it. You aren’t second guessing your recipe and if you did it right.
I’m not sure if it has been mentioned, but as someone who likes cheese, do not buy pre-shredded cheese. Grate the cheese from a block yourself. Packaged shredded cheese contains cellulose or corn starch or something additional to prevent the cheese from all sticking together by the time you get it. Fresh shredded cheese is way better. It doesn’t even have to be special or expensive cheese (for me) just a block of the cheese you might otherwise buy.
What everyone else said. Also how old is your dressing. Most salad dressings are oily and therefore susceptible to rancidity. A restaurant probably uses it quicker than whatever I’ve got hiding in the back of my fridge
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