I have an oxo right now and I don't think it dries that well. What I did have years ago that was wonderful for salad for two was an herb spinner. Something generic and I no longer have it but leaves were nearly dry and crisp. So, I'm following, I'd really like an efficient salad spinner that works as its supposed to. Or I'll be going back to swinging lettuce in a kitchen towel ;0)

After washing I put the greens in a Tupperware type bowl, add paper towels to the top, put on the lid and turn over. Let it sit until ready to use. You can store in the refrigerator this way too.

I also have one along with the Oxo herb spinner that's just smaller. I think they do an okay job. As you mentioned, still wet-ish. I got them years ago when Kohl's had a grand opening. I think I paid $10 total for them.

I chose to get a Mueller salad spinner instead, although I considered the Oxo. I really like the Mueller, and it has a pull-out to make the bowl spin, which I think is more efficient. I have that spinner in L.A., and I moved my old Copco spinner to Cathedral City, and it works fine, even after 25+ years. I think the Copco might do a slightly better job, and I think it is because of the plastic used to make it. The new plastic does not work as well, for some reason.

I have an older version and it works well. You pump the center button several times as nickel_kg said and then hit the brake button hard, that's what flings the water of the leaves. I do two rounds of spinning and have no problems with excess water and my green leaf or spinach lasts a good long time.

Yes, pumping, rather than pushing. I was pumping it several times. I'll use the brake to stop it suddenly. I use the brake just for slowing it down so I can take the lid off.

I have an old Zyliss one that is no longer made. Mine looks a lot like yours and works well. I would try the new Zyliss without hesitation. I am generally very happy with their products.

https://www.zyliss.com/store/products/zyliss-swift-dry-salad-spinner-large-green-e940005u.htm

I have that one. I give it a spin, then take out the inner colander, give the lettuce or spinach a bit of a toss and a stir to re-arrange it, and then spin it again. It works pretty well if I do that. It's the only one I've ever had, so I never knew there were ones that worked better. Mine is kind of squeaky.

I have that one. I eat a lot of salads, so clean a couple bunches of romaine and a couple bunches of spinach each week. I wash, spin, and then I lay the greens out on dish towels on the counter for a couple hours. Then I store in Rubbermaid Freshworks storage containers. It stays nice all week.

My first gadget for drying lettuce was a wire basket just like this. I ordered it from a catalog and thought it was so cute. Long time ago!

I have one and I like that is on the small-ish side, but don’t think it works all that well. I think it is because water gets trapped in the weave of the basket rather than being spun completely out. I wash a lot of my own home grown lettuce in mine after rinsing. It does remove lots of water but the lettuce still seems very wet to me. I remove it to a tea towel and drain there before storing. Shouldn’t have to do that step.

I used to have a very large salad spinner. I only got rid of it because it took up so much room in the cabinet. I should have just kept it as it did hold a lot and seemed to spin the water out better.

I have a Tupperware spinner. You turn the handle on top to wind it up and let her rip. Works well. I don't use it unless I am making a large salad. For myself I just rinse the greens in a small colander and blot on a few paper towels.

I had the Oxo and found sometimes the lid didn't get seated correctly with the basket or something and it didn't get a good whirl going. But when it was seated properly, I could pump it fast and it did a good job. When it broke I bought this Cuisinart instead and am much happier with it...no seating problems:

I have the oxo and am very happy with it. I do like rockypoint and empty the bowl and shake the colander, then pump again, 2 maybe 3 pumps each time. I won't be trading it in any time soon.

I like my Oxo. I get most of the water out of the veggies but they are never totally dry.

My first was a Copco that I still use for hand washing delicate clothes and stuff like that. The spinner on the Copco doesn't work very well so I use my older Oxo with a cracked bowl to spin out the rinse water of clothes washed in the Copco.

I found that the spinners that I tried bruised the leaves which is fine if you are planning on using immediately but not for storage for the next day.

interesting, maifleur. We use our spinner to wash lettuce that we then put in a container, ready to put on sandwiches for the next few days or for nibbling on. How would we know if the leaves are bruised?

I have a cheap salad spinner from Ikea. It has a knob you turn, which I think is easier for me than pumping would be. It does a good job.

My salad spinner is at least 15 years old and I love it. It's a Zyliss with a pull cord - works great.

Salad spinners always remind me of my friend's two year old. He has a lot of toys, but his favorite thing to play with is a salad spinner.

My spinner is 30 years old and is used at least once weekly. The lid has a knob on the top that you grasp to rotate the inside bowl to spin the the contents in either direction, clockwise or counter clockwise. It does a very good job of eliminating excess water. I place the spun leaves of greens in a 2 gallon zip lock bag that I first line with paper towels. I bought this spinner at KMart when they were a very new item in the marketplace. The name that is on the top of that knob is HOAN. I guess that is the brand? My daughter covets it.

I have the OXO salad spinner and it works fine for me. I can leave the cleaned lettuce in unit in the refrigerator for a few days, and it keeps it nice and crisp.

Years ago I used to wash the lettuce, then put it in a clean dry pillowcase and swing it around outside, and that method worked pretty well. I may go back to that method, because it's easier to throw the pillow case into the next load of wash than to clean the 3 part salad spinner.

I used to use the pillowcase method when I would visit my mother, as she was not interested in investing in a salad spinner - or any kitchen items, for that matter, as she hated to cook.

One Christmas, about ten years ago, I had my niece's husband spin the lettuce outside, as he needed something to do, and he seemed to like it.

My salad spinner was a favorite "toy" when my kids and grandkids were little. I don't use it much.

My OXO is at least 20 years old. Works great!

I dumped the OXOs I had- too big and left the greens wet. I bought Westmark greens spinners. They are smaller, and the greens are dry.

I also currently have the Zyliss spinner which I bought maybe 15 years ago. Prior to that I had the OXO. At first I had difficulty with the Zyliss but got to like it a lot more than my OXO. But you know how it goes, the year that you bought it etc. I don't expect a current Zyliss to operate as well as my older one, but then you never know. Actually in Canada who even knows what will be on the shelves these days.

Gee, we like our Oxo, it’s probably 15+ years old. Just gave our son the smaller Oxo spinner from my mom’s kitchen for his new apartment.

I use it to thaw and then peel shrimp, too: easy to change the water, then drain the shrimp, put the shells etc in the bowl and the peeled shrimp on a plate or bowl ready for the skllet.

We have an Oxo, I think it works poorly. We always need to further towel dry lettuce after spinning because it remains wet. The best one we ever had was ages ago in Europe, it worked with a pull cord, like starting a lawn mower, and it really got going fast.

I think a lack of speed is the problem with the Oxo. This thread has me motivated to try one of the crank handle models. Thanks

Elmer, perhaps you used the Mueller spinner that I have, which is from Austria and has a pull mechanism that gets the spinning going very fast.

There is a bit more control with speed with the crank handle, but the one I have like that does not have a stop button, and so it is somewhat difficult to stop. Anyway, the Mueller is much easier to use.

Hmm, we brought a crank spinner from my folks’, too. but haven’t tried it yet.

After a spin, I empty water from the bottom of the Oxo bowl and then spin again, then one more time. It doesn’t take much time or effort, and works. Sometimes if I put of lot of greens in, I mix it up after a spin to allow more surface to spin off water.

lars, a big hug in your direction. Does that Mueller one get going real fast? Is the lettuce close to dry when you're done?

I seem to recall our pull device had a ring on the end of it to hold but that might have been after something else broke off. We were living in Europe and bought it there so what we had was as likely to have been an Austrian product as from another European country. It was at a time when kitchen and consumer goods from Asia were rare.

Mine has a handle you crank. Works fine. t's taking up space in a lower kitchen cabinet, overkill for just two people. I use a dishtowel. (I should get RID of the darn thing!)