Do I Need A Salad Spinner? [Washing Salad Content]

I never wash my salad/veg*, but think maybe I should start. If I do, should I get a salad spinner? If so, which one?

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Don’t need to.

Never washed it, never have, never buying a salad spinner.

Get a rigid SS spinner – proper hardcore.

No, don’t need a spinner, just a linen tea towel and plenty of space to swing it around in. Back gardens are great for this, although you may get strange looks from your neighbours.

SaladTFU!

Wash salad, put it in a net bag, tie the end, swing bag of salad round head like a mace. Sorted.
Chain mail and beard optional extras.
*curse you pinkster!*

Quite like this one.

Or, hey you could go Kitchen Aid for £115 (one born every minute, eh?)

Or how about this 20 litre capacity for when the Greeks arrive en masse (lotta feta salad to be makin’ there). Need a 230V socket handy:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00005QB5U/?tag=hydra0b-21&hvadid=9550933629&ref=asc_df_B00005QB5U

these work well until your father in law decide to take it apart then its just ok, also works well as a childs toy.

not entirely sure you “need” one, dont they wash lettuce in chlorine or something

I can now put the mesh bag that came with my Assos bib shorts to good use 😆

Do you toss as well?

Taken from the “How to be an artist” thread. Put salad in mesh bag and,

Swing as high as you can on a swingset by moonlight.

Hang the salad out on the line to dry

Have you got any pegs?

No. Just tell your pet rabbit to RTFU.

If you’re buying lettuce whole or pulling them from the garden, they’re really useful. As well as making washing easy they’re good for storing the leaves in the fridge (they keep for quite a while) so it’s dead handy to pull out a few leaves when you want them. So basically, wash in a batch then you have ready salad on demand.

Ours is like this: http://www.johnlewis.com/231459874/Product.aspx

You can also use the bowl as a serving bowl.

We eat masses of Salad and most is Organic and either from farms or from Waitrose unwashed.
Salad Spinners a must in the Bouy household and we’ve got to the point of getting through 2-3 a year. They’re not the best made things on the planet and with our excessive* use I guess we just have to put up with it, better that than eating grit and bugs IMO.

*to us, it isn’t excessive.

better that than eating grit and bugs IMO.

Maybe slightly damp salad is bettert than throwing loads of plastic into landfill?

I love the fact that Waitrose do a ‘unwashed’ salad makes it sound like its for the poor people struggling to avoid going to sainsburys 😉

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Redacted after other posters CBA redaction…

Oh 🙁

It was such a fun thread…

Salad spinners are great. Ikea do one for £4 which is alright but you can’t beat the pump action ones like the Oxo Good Grips one that even has an emergency stop. Hours of fun 😀

Well we do have an Asda nearby put then it’s full of Pikies* so Waitrose is the Ye Olde Shoppe of choice. However back “home” we have the Co-Op express in the village that sell that awful stuff from that Florentina company (or whatever they’re called)

Anyhoo’s we get a lot of stuff from the Market Garden of England, just outside Arlesford, Hampshire.

*Phah.

Don’t put the OXO strainer bit through the dishwasher, they come out distinctly non-round.

I imagine you have the necessary tools already

What the hell happened to this thread? Deletions, redactions?

Salad spinning is obviously serious business.

Oh, and to dip my toe into the centrifugal world of salad spinning, I just picked up a cheap one from Tesco.

Oh the fun I am going to have later!

Yes. You’ll want to wash bugs and dirt off, right?

You then need to get rid of the water as the salad won’t keep and dressing won’t cling to it.

A proper device is loads better than the swing-round-the-head method, which is hassle really, and doesn’t do a proper job.

There we are,

APF

I cut some slots in the side of my one of these…

Works a treat.

And it’s easy to move outside for that al-fresco summer dining.

We have one, its big, its yellow and it takes up lots of space that could be better utilised for something else. I have never used it, the misses seems to like it though (god knows why)

Get a sieve much more useful

IMHO

What the hell happened to this thread? Deletions, redactions?

Salad spinning is obviously serious business.

Oh, and to dip my toe into the centrifugal world of salad spinning, I just picked up a cheap one from Tesco.

I think it triggered the meat washing thread. Sorry mods 😳

Tescos? Is it motorised? How many horse power? 😀