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Did you know that...?

...that a user of an early design for a salad spinner remarked that the new product "saves shaking my salad basket out of the kitchen window"?

...Salad spinners use centrifugal force to remove excess water?

...the first salad spinners were branded as "“kitchen junk” by "paper towel diehards"?

...the salad spinner was celebrated as an alternative to the “tedious hand method of patting dry each leaf”?

There are problems with this method. It’s akin to standing near a dog that’s shaking himself dry. Armed with a yellow slicker and a back porch or yard you could swing the basket to your heart’s content and still remain dry. In a kitchen, though, swinging arms, baskets and a shower could do damage. Standing in your bathtub with the shower curtain pulled was an alternative method for apartment dwellers.

— Judy Hevrdejs, Lakeland Ledger

Usage

When serving a raw leaf salad, the leaves need to be clean as well as dry. Salad which has not been properly washed can be potentially harmful.Listeria, in particular, has been known to be present in unwashed salads. It can be found in soil, and lead to vegetable contamination and listeriosis."In her book Not on the Label, Guardian journalist Felicity Lawrence says that between 1992 and 2000, when bagged salads took off, nearly 6% of food-poisoning outbreaks were associated with prepared vegetables and salads."

Salad leaves are fragile and preparation is potential difficult. The leaves can be easily damaged and bruised if handled harshly during the washing and drying process.

The need salad dressings and oils will not stick to the lettuce or salad leaves if there is an excess of water. Salad left in water for a long period of time will go limp. Salad spinners can provide an effective method of preparation for eating the leaves raw. The greens are placed in the colander section of the spinner and the container is filled with water. The floating salad is agitated and left to sit before the water is poured out. This process is often repeated until no visible traces of dirt or sand remain. Once drained, the greens are spun which generates a centrifugal force that drives the excess moisture, through the perforation in the central strainer, to the outer bowl. The spun salad can then be removed from the interior basket.