Are you a fan of salad spinners?

Boatie_Bird

I'm think of spending some of my hard-earned on a salad spinner.
I'm fed up of soggy salad, but I don't want to buy something that will spend most of it's time languishing in the kitchen cupboard!

So do you own one?
Are they any good?
Does yours ever see the light of day?
Where can I get a good cheap one?

Thanks!
BB

larmy16

I love salad spinners. If you can hold out for one, these turn up regularly at charity shops and boot sales - in fact you will probably be spoilt for choice.

Years ago I got a little herb spinner which is fab for salad for one person - despite being brown and cream (1970's) - I think they are great, but do take up some space if you have the larger one.

lady_fuschia

Sorry for being thick - but what's a salad spinner?

FBThree

Nope - another thing to clean!

Boatie_Bird

lady_fuschia wrote: »

Sorry for being thick - but what's a salad spinner?

I guess a more accurate name for it would be a salad dryer.
wash your salad leaves, pop them in the spinner, give it a spin and it 'spins' all the water off the leaves

Boatie_Bird

FBThree wrote: »

Nope - another thing to clean!

This is my fear!

So I suppose I should pose another question:
How do you dry your salad leaves if you don't use a spinner

Mine are always soggy (and I'm trying to shed a few pounds at the moment so I'm eating A LOT of salad!)

thetope

lady_fuschia wrote: »

Sorry for being thick - but what's a salad spinner?

if you buy a whole lettuce and tear it up into pieces, you wanna wash it before you eat it to get the beasties/pesticides off it... salad spinner is basically a basket in a bowl that you spins very fast and it takes the water off the lettuce by centrifuge.

tanith

Never had one of these useless articles I drain my washed salad in a plastic colander or gently lay in a clean tea towel , how do you manage to make crisp lettuce etc soggy? my salads are always deliciously crisp....

Boatie_Bird

tanith wrote: »

Never had one of these useless articles I drain my washed salad in a plastic colander or gently lay in a clean tea towel , how do you manage to make crisp lettuce etc soggy? my salads are always deliciously crisp....

It's not the lettuce that ends up soggy, it's the water from it that goes onto the rest of the salad stuff and makes that soggy. Especially when it's packed up in a box to take to work.

tanith

Ok I get what you mean now , I used to have the same problem when I was working and took salad everyday for my lunch, I think its more being in a plastic box and getting warm that makes everything limp... I used to use a small cool bag with an ice block in and used Iceberg lettuce(stays crisper than others) as long as the bag is kept shut and cold my salad would last till the middle of the afternoon before becoming inedible... worth a try

mookybargirl

I'm on Slimming World so eat salad maybe 4 days a week. My salad spinner is fantastic. Yeah, it does mean a little extra washing up but it's really worth the extra couple of minutes. If you dry it for example on some kitchen roll which I'm sure a lot of people do, think of how much that costs you each time. I bought my salad spinner at Ikea and I'm sure it was only about £2.

If you're eating a lot of salad, I'd buy one....