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SoftWorks Salad Spinner
Dry up and perk up your freshly washed leafy greens with this salad spinner by OXO Softworks. Features OXO's signature soft handle design that makes preparation easy and comfortable. Just fill the basket with salad greens, close the lid, then press the top knob several times to spin the salad. Simple to operate and made with high-quality materials. Includes a clear plastic bowl, white plastic basket and lid with a knob. Clear bowl can be used separately for serving. Dishwasher safe. Imported. 7-1/2Hx9-1/2" dia.
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SoftWorks Salad Spinner Reviews
grape tomato, snow peas, baby carrots, broccoli florets, etc. I have both sizes and use the larger one for the bulky leafy salad and the smaller one for veggies that typically go on top of a salad (i.e. cold crisp and just moist enough to keep for days. darn I wish I had thought of that sooner too. Happy Holidays. I was on the phone to my sister while spinning up a salad and she asked about the sound coming over the phone to her. I wish I had invented it. Using both sizes I can (ahem) spin up an impressive salad very quickly.
While describing this item (which I have had for about 5 years) I realized how much I liked it and thought I would put in my 2 cents on Amazon. And once done the bowl and lid make a perfect means of storing the food. It is an outstanding product and a WOW gift for the holidays. (tomorrow is Christmas.). As the line states it is one of the best gadgets in my kitchen. which is where I directed her to see it on line).
You can get a head start using the spinner. It is not hard to live with a soggy sandwich or a drippy salad now and then; such is the nature of life. Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning by Judith MacKenzie McCuin). If you are not ecologically conscious and try the clothes drier you will inevitably end up felting your day's work. I am not innovative the suggestion came from a book "Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning" by Judith MacKenzie McCuin. However if you have home spun yarn it can take a day or two to dry.
The large button in the center is spring loaded and when you press it, will rise. After putting your salad into the strainer basket inside, close the top and depress the large button. Use the small button on the side to slow down the spinning basket before opening. The basket will spin and the water will come out of the salad into the clear bowl. The SoftWorks Salad Spinner is a nice product that works as advertised. The product seems identical to me to the OXO salad spinner I have seen in stores with a solid white top, and they may in fact be the same product.
Enjoy. I find that rinsing my salad and greens several times between spinnings seems to get them the cleanest. I have used this product for more than a year and I'm very happy with it. I can't help but feel that the price is rather high for such a product, but this was one of the more affordable alternatives I found. The insides seem to scratch rather easily and may be harder to clean when scratched. So until a less expensive alternative emerges, this looks like one of the better alternatives. The size is large enough to wash a full chopped head of romaine lettuce.
It's that simple. Avoid the temptation to use the clear bowl as a salad serving bowl. It's always best to rinse and spin as close to serving time as possible so that your salad stays nice and crisp. The Oxo Good Grips Salad Spinner appears to be the same as well, except for product pictures showing a clear top.
(By the way, I read that to get that last bit of water, you can throw a paper towel in the spinner with your greens to absorb any excess, which is a great tip). This spinner is very simple to use you just pop up the black "pumper" and push it down several times, then use the little "brake" button to slow it down quickly. My salad greens get dried off very well. I was torn between the SoftWorks and the Zyliss, but picked this one because I was afraid of possible problems with the pull string on the Zyliss.
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