Salad spinners?

Bunny200

oystercatcher wrote: »

I have got a cheapy spinner given as a wedding present 25 years ago ...it lasted longer than the marriage !! Takes up loads of cupboard space so is shoved up near the ceiling and I can't be bothered to get it down. It works effectively though. I've often wondered if it would work as a mini spin dryer for camping!

This thread has brought back a lovely memory though of a very dear friend who died many years ago. When we all lived in the nurses home the kitchen was two floors and two long corridors away so lettuce would be rinsed in the sink in his bedroom and then put in a tea towel and 'spun' in the very long corridor outside the rooms spraying water along the carpet ! I'm too 'old and sensible' to do approve of that now but it was funny at the time.

My parents had one when I was little and they were great (note to self: get salad spinner!) but we used to use it to spin the water out of swimming costumes when they had been rinsed out. much better than washing them!

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I only eat Iceberg lettuce, and have a big bowl with a lid that I bought from betaware years ago.Inside is a spike that you impale the lettuce on and replace the lid and put in the fridge Lettuce keeps for ages in this and as long as you only cut what you require off with a plastic knife the lettuce will stay white.I can easily have a lettuce for 10 days or more in mine .Mind you there is only me at home.I used to use the teatowel method years ago when I grew little lettuces myself but I am well past whirling lettuce above my head I think my neighbours would think I had finally lost the plot

Farway

I bought one from Lidl after seeing DD using one, I always use it now, great results

It is one that collects the water, amazing just how much water comes off the leaves

jenster

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

I got mine a couple of months back in sainsbury's. It's a basics one and was £1.99. Works just like my Mum's (which cost a LOT more!).

and i must have bought the same one on saturday in our local sainsburys £1.99 :T