What in the world is a salad spinner, and why do I need one? Well I am not a huge salad eater myself. In fact my family really isn't either. So why do I have a salad spinner? Answer, because it's really cool and you can use it for so much more than salad spinning.
This is the (
Ozeri GreenEarth Salad Spinner) . It has a super fast spinning action with an instant stop button. It can be used as both colander and serving bowl. The pump handle is easy to use with hardly any effort. Easy clean up with this as both the clear bowl and green colander are dishwasher safe.
As mentioned before, there are many different uses for a salad spinner. Here are 10.
1. Washing and drying herbs.
Herbs need to be washed and dried just like lettuce, so throw the herb bunches right in there (no need to take off the bands that hold the bunch together), wash, and spin away!
2. Spinning excess water out of pasta.
When making pasta dishes like pasta salad or casseroles, spin the excess water out of pasta, especially tubular pasta, so that your pasta salad doesn't get watered down.
3. Rinsing and draining beans.
Give canned beans a quick rinse and set them aside to drain in the spinner, or spin hardier beans like garbanzos to get every drop of water out.
4. Washing berries.
Having a spinner with a storage bowl makes washing delicate berries a breeze. Fill the spinner with water, let the berries soak for a few minutes, then lift the strainer out to remove them from the water without bruising the delicate fruit!
5. Removing seeds from canned tomatoes.
Throw whole canned tomatoes into the spinner, break them up with your hands, and spin a few times to get all the bitter little seeds out.
6. Cleaning leeks.
Leeks can have lots of sand and grit trapped between the thin layers, so halve or cut your leeks up, soak them in water in the spinner, then lift out the basket to remove the leeks from the dirty water. Repeat as needed until all the grit is gone, then spin the leeks dry!
7. Cleaning craggly vegetables like broccoli.
Bumpy vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower can trap in lots of dirt, so cut them up into your desired pieces and soak and spin them dry.
8. Proofing bread dough.
This tip is great if you have a spinner with a clear bowl. Place a ball of dough that needs proofing on your counter, then flip the salad spinner bowl over it. Now you have a closed environment that keeps the dough from drying out, plus you can monitor the proofing process at a glance.
9. Removing water from swimsuits.
I used to love using the swimsuit spinner in the locker room after swim class, and the salad spinner is just a low-tech version!
10. Washing delicate clothing.
Use the salad spinner to gently wash delicate clothing like bras. Spin the clothing with some laundry or dish soap and water to mimic the wash cycle of a washer, then drain the water and spin the excess water out of the clothing before line drying.
Resource: (
The Kitchn)
We are a pasta eating family. We make lots of pasta dishes. I'm constantly shaking the strainer to get all the water out. This is an genius idea to use to get the water out.
First I used it as a strainer.
Secondly, I put it in the spinner
Third, using the easy handle give it a couple of pumps to spin.
Your done. And just to show you how well it works here's a picture of the excess it spun out.
Such an easy thing to use and definately consider this a multiuse kitchen must have.
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