Kitchen Equipment? UPDATED INFO Salad Sling

[irisblue]

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Source--https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/dining/salad-sling.html
entire review-- Florence Fabricant
Oct. 28, 2019
I own salad spinners, but I prefer to dry my greens by rolling them up in a terry cloth towel. Obviously, Jill Visit, an entrepreneur from Austin, Tex., is of like mind: She has created the Salad Sling, a 30-inch triple-layer square of absorbent Kelly green fabric. Gather up your washed greens in the sling, grasp the handles in the corners and, holding it closed like a knapsack, swing it around vigorously so the moisture on the leaves gets wicked off and settles into the fabric. It works quite well, though I found that a second swing is sometimes needed. The fabric is easily rinsed and is machine washable and dryable.

Salad Sling, $19.99, saladsling.com.


Does anyone have this? Thx

[flamin lib]

1. I don't own one of those but I've been drying salad by putting it in the center of a towel

gathering the corners and swinging it around the kitchen for a long time.

[MontanaMama]

2. That's how my mom kept fresh greens.

Worked well as I recall.

[irisblue]

3. I already have mesh laundry lingerie bags

You know, from before days, when we/some wore bras with hooks?

I think I'll try that before I spend $20.

[Sherman A1]

4. Interesting

thanks for posting.

[irisblue]

5. My ancient plastic salad spinner finally died.

I need more veggies, but dislike soggy wet lettuces. I heard about this, but I'll try the mesh bag 1st, I have some micro fiber cloth to add in if that helps.

[Sherman A1]

6. I will certainly check it out.

I believe that our salad spinner is still operational, but we haven't used it in awhile. It's usually bagged lettuce or spinach for our salads.

[3catwoman3]

7. I've accomplished the same thing using a small...

...pillow case. Works just fine.

[Warpy]

8. Remember the old wire mesh baskets that folded flat?

I'd just pop out the back door with my soggy greens and give that a few slings and the greens were acceptably dry. This was in the early 70s.

Then I got a centrifugal salad spinner and never looked back. I'd say get one of those, it does a better job and you can probably find one for less than the towel with handles.

[irisblue]

9. So I used the mesh lingerie bag

Took my washed & wet lettuces and spun it out side, worked very well. Under a minute of spin time, to the right & left, lettuce was dry.

I got the mesh bag at BBB, maybe $2 w/coupon. Worth it.

If you have shoulder/rotator cuff problems, this way I can see not working.


End of this experiment.