OXO Good Grips 32480 Salad Spinner

These days many people are quite busy, and by the time they get home from a hard days work, they would like to sit down to a nice salad with dinner. But who has the time for this? Parents are busy bringing their kids to practice or just have no patience to take the lettuce out, wash it, rip it up, and place it in the bowl. This sounds kind of silly and lazy, but it is reality. That's why many families have switched to the ready-made salads. There is only one problem. These salads are often still dirty even though the companies creating these salads claim they are clean and have been washed. That's where the handy dandy salad spinner comes in!

My boyfriend's mother eats prepackaged salad almost every night, and she uses the OXO Good Grips 32480 Salad Spinner to wash it off. This product is very simple to use and is easily stored. All it is composed of is a base bowl and a second strainer-type basket placed on top of the base. Lastly, it has a cushioned knob that you spin.

When you are ready to eat your salad, you simply dump the bag of lettuce into the basket, place the whole thing in the sink and wet the lettuce. Then you spin the handle and the basket part of the spinner spins around rapidly, draining the water out of the salad and into the base. The knob has a built-in brake that you can access with just the tip of your finger. Then you are left with crisp clean lettuce.

What I like most about this product is that it is a very quick process, and you can rest assured that your salad has been thoroughly cleaned because you can visually see the effect of the spinning and cleansing with your very own eyes. After you have spun the lettuce, your salad is nicely dried, and the water that has drained now sits in the base. I have yet to see clean water! It is always dirty, so I am very happy the salad spinner is always available in the kitchen!

The parts of this particular salad spinner are dishwasher safe on the top rack. So not only is it easy to use, but it's also easy to clean. Then you can lock down the knob and store it away until your next craving for salad. You can't go wrong!