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| Brand: Oxo
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 10
 Wish I'd gotten an OXO salad spinner a long time ago September 22, 2008
Jeff Wythe (College Station, TX USA)
Throwing away brown, slimy lettuce used to be my hobby. But I saw the OXO salad spinner listed as a "cool tool" on Kevin Kelly's web site and decided I would try one, even though it seemed a tad expensive. I'll tell ya', throwing away lettuce is expensive! This thing works. It is as simple as that. It feels heavy and well built, too. The mechanism is very solid feeling. Recommended!
The best salad spinner! September 20, 2008
GC (CA)
This is the second Oxo Salad Spinner I have owned. I used my previous one daily for many, many years. The only reason I bought a new one is because I dropped it and it had a small crack in it. I love the new clear top. Wouldn't use anything else to prepare a salad.
 Poor Quality - Waste of Money September 19, 2008
P. OBRIEN
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It broke the second time I used it.
I bought this product because I liked the smaller size and trusted the Oxo brand. What a mistake! The second time I used it, I set it, per the instructions, but when I pushed the pump mechanism, it went down half way and then jammed. I tried everything, I even took it apart and put it back together, but the stupid thing would not function properly. I would advase against buying this product.
Perfect for Eat For Health September 17, 2008
Laura Daniels (East Peoria, IL)
When I bought this product, I was unsure of how much it would hold. It holds an entire head of leaf lettuce, which is exactly what I wanted it to do. It is great. I can soak, wash, spin and eat my lettuce all in one bowl. I was previously using at least three bowls every time.
For anyone else out there that follows Dr. Fuhrman's dietary guidelines, this is perfect. It makes preparing those large salads, and it is attractive. The handle retracts for storage. It is made of sturdy materials, and overall I'm very impressed. I'm glad I spent the extra money to got the good one.
It's a good thing I got this as a gift. September 6, 2008
nsv (The Everglades)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted a salad spinner and this one looked like a good one, but I never would have spent this much money on a salad spinner for myself. I figured for as often as I would probably use it, I should get a cheaper one.
A friend kept me from making that mistake. I've now had this salad spinner for a couple of years, and it turns out that this one is not only durable enough to survive my abuse, but I use it for just about every fruit and vegetable that comes into the house.
No, I don't spin a bag full of apples. But I do wash all my produce when I bring it home. (That way, if I'm trying to decide between a peach and a bag of potato chips, I can't use the excuse that I don't feel like washing the peach.) Apples, peaches, plums, pears, and so on all get loaded into the salad spinner. I fill it with water and a splash of vinegar. (That seams to get the produce clean faster than plain water alone.) I use the inner basket to swish everything around, then pull it out and dump the water, and rinse everything in the basket. A quick shake, then I leave the basket in the dish rack for an hour or two. The produce dries and gets put into the produce bin in the fridge. Repeat with grapes, cherries, strawberries... all the smaller, more fragile fruits. I even spin those gently, and they dry more quickly.
Veggies get the same treatment. While the fruits are drying in the basket I'm cutting up broccoli, cauliflower, and whatever other vegetables I've gotten. They get washed, rinsed, spun a bit, and stored in a plastic bag with a paper towel to absorb what little moisture remains.
At the end of the day when I'm tired and I want to eat NOW and I've thrown burgers on the grill, it's a lot easier to throw some veggies on the grill too when they're already washed and cut up. If I could just figure out a way to use this for mushrooms, I'd be all set.
And yes, I do use this for salad. Just about everything that's going into the salad goes in the spinner to be washed, rinsed, and spun. And I use less salad dressing because it sticks to dry lettuce leaves better and doesn't get diluted from the water on the leaves.
If I had gotten myself a cheap, flimsy salad spinner I would probably never use it. This is stored on top of the refrigerator. I keep it handy because I use it all the time.
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