Yesterday at my new job, it was slow so I spent most of
the time putting stock away with coworkers, including a young man from Somalia--his
English is excellent but he didn't know some objects.
"What's this for?" he asked, as he put a salad spinner on the shelf.
I told him, and he was mystified:
"Why would anyone want this? You can just shake the lettuce."
"Why would anyone want this? You can just shake the lettuce."
I laughed and said it was for people with big kitchens who have room for one machine per task.
But that evening, bink, who has a small kitchen, said she loves hers--uses it all the time to wash and also store lettuce to keep it crisp.
(Esther told me she's seen battery-operated ones though, which really seems insane.)
After years of scoffing at salad spinners--but being tired of dripping wet salads--I broke down and got one. You are right that it takes up a huge amount of space in my small kitchen, but it is one of the few items I have that earns that space through constant use. And that's my testimonial.
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