Salad spinner

The salad spinner is a kitchen appliance, be freed with the salad leaves after washing of excess water, so that then only wet leaves better connect with the salad dressing ( vinaigrette ).

It consists of a round bowl in which a pin on a rotating basket and a lid that contains the drive mechanism ( crank or lanyard).

Due to the rotation of the basket ( centrifugal force principle) and off - expelled the water from the lettuce leaves from the basket and collect beneath the basket in the bowl. Work in a similar spin-dryer, washing machine and centrifuge - in contrast to wash lettuce leaves, however, are not permeable to water, so that when the water drips salad down rather than that it is pushed outward.

Simple salad spinners with crank mechanism are usually manufactured from plastic, complex and expensive are those made of stainless steel with a ripcord as a drive.

• Kitchen appliance
• Centrifuge