Salad spinners seem to be essentials in some kitchens, and completely unheard-of in others. I don’t think I ever even saw one until I was 20 or so, so I can imagine that there are others out there who haven’t seen these things. A salad spinner is basically a 3-piece contraption that allows you to wash and dry lettuce relatively quickly and easily. There is a bowl-like part, a sieve which fits inside the bowl, and a top. There’s a simple mechanism in the top that allows one to spin the sieve around very quickly, effectively spinning all the water off of the lettuce.
We have a salad spinner, but I admit I rarely use it. It’s too big, for one thing - you could fit salad for 10 people in it. In a household of two, rarely do we need so much clean and dry lettuce at one time. But, smaller models are available. I think I’d use ours more often if it was smaller - we have such limited counter space, that the big salad spinner really is inconvenient. On the other hand, it’s nice to have dry salad.
Are you a salad spinner devotee? Why or why not?
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