Salad spinner

A salad spinner is a small kitchen appliance that normally uses a pumping action to quickly rotate an internal basket in which washed salad leaves are placed. The centrifugal force quickly removes any excess water without damage to the contents.

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  Our Kuhn Rikon Salad Spinnner - £20 Amazon Uk

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  OXO Good Grips Salad & Herb Spinner

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  Geared type with handle

Some models, instead of the spinning top-type pump action already described, have a folding levered handle (or just a knob) which is attached internally to a gearing system. Thus turning the handle at 1 revolution per second will produce (for example, I'm just guessing) an internal speed of the basket of 5 r.p.s. The water is ejected via centrifugal force through the holes in exactly the same way as above.

Herb drying

A salad spinner is great for washing and drying herbs - we use ours more for this than we do for drying salad leaves.

Drying chips

These are excellent for drying french fries. An ideal accompaniment to a Tefal ActiFry AL806040 - Hot air fryer

Extracting seeds from dried flower heads

An odd use, but very effective. Put a dried flower head such as teasel or butterbur and spin vigorously. Hundreds of seeds are easily removed in a minute or so!

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