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Originally Posted by Bayarea4
I love my OXO salad spinner. But an old, clean pillowcase also works in a pinch. You put the wet lettuce leaves into the pillowcase, then whirl it around in circles so the pillowcase absorbs the water. This works on the same principle as the salad spinner - centrifugal force - but you don't need a special gadget or the shelf space to store it. The only downside is that if you eat salads every day, you could go through a lot of pillowcases! And it's a good idea to take the pillowcase outdoors to spin it.
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Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00
I think I'll stick with my salad spinner. Eating salad that just came out of an old pillowcase just does not sound appetizing to me.
Haha! This reminds me of what we used to call garbage bag salad. It was a "thing" -- briefly -- in the 1990s. When you have a big salad that you want to *very lightly coat* with salad dressing on every piece, you dump the whole salad in a trash bag, pour in a bit of salad dressing, and shake the heck out of the bag. Every little bit of salad got a light coating of dressing. Then the "thing" stopped being a "thing." It stopped sooner if you called it "garbage bag salad" because, really, that sounds disgusting.
I use my salad spinner for drying skeins of yarn after they've been washed. That may not be as useful in your household, but if you make yarn and wash it afterwards to set the twist, a salad spinner is a wonderful thing. The yarn doesn't have any chemicals in it since it's fiber from our angora bunnies so it can still be washed and used as a salad spinner, too. Although, I must admit, it gets used more for yarn than for lettuce. But, the garden is planted and the lettuce has sprouted so soon it can do dual duty again.
I bought my salad spinner to dry freshly washed wool and to dry freshly washed handspun. Lettuce was just an afterthought.
Haha! This reminds me of what we used to call garbage bag salad. It was a "thing" -- briefly -- in the 1990s. When you have a big salad that you want to *very lightly coat* with salad dressing on every piece, you dump the whole salad in a trash bag, pour in a bit of salad dressing, and shake the heck out of the bag. Every little bit of salad got a light coating of dressing. Then the "thing" stopped being a "thing." It stopped sooner if you called it "garbage bag salad" because, really, that sounds disgusting.
McDonald's sold shaker salads briefly during some fad diet craze in the early 200s. It was just their salads, put in a tall cleat plastic cup with a domed lid, and you'd put in dressing and toppings and shake it up to coat. Same principle. It was marketed as easily portable because of the cup container. Didn't go over well after the initial introduction, though.
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Originally Posted by TabulaRasa
McDonald's sold shaker salads briefly during some fad diet craze in the early 200s. It was just their salads, put in a tall cleat plastic cup with a domed lid, and you'd put in dressing and toppings and shake it up to coat. Same principle. It was marketed as easily portable because of the cup container. Didn't go over well after the initial introduction, though.
That sounds familiar! They should have put the salad in a (small) garbage bag like they were supposed to.
I have one and I like the results when I use it but I don't like having something else to clean. I therefore usually only use it when I have company and am making a salad. Lazy I know.
McDonald's sold shaker salads briefly during some fad diet craze in the early 200s. It was just their salads, put in a tall cleat plastic cup with a domed lid, and you'd put in dressing and toppings and shake it up to coat. Same principle. It was marketed as easily portable because of the cup container. Didn't go over well after the initial introduction, though.
I remember those. I liked the concept, but didn't think they were a good value for the price.
How do people wash lettuce and spinach without one? We got a cheap one as a wedding present. I mean that really is a lame wedding present. But we laugh all the time about how we used it for 25 years, just replacing it recently, so it was probably our best wedding present.
Since for some mad reason we just bought a tub of lettuce plants at the garden center, I'm using my ancient spinner more than ever.
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