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Salad spinners are a game changer when it comes to meal prep. Fill them with greens and water to wash your lettuce, and then spin to drain and remove excess water. You can also use your salad spinner to drain veggies after washing. Salad spinners are essential since clean, dry leaves are better-prepped for dressing on salad (and they stay fresh longer). You can even store your greens in the colander – the vents help with air circulation, which slows down the rate of spoilage.

In the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances Lab, we put 18 salad spinners to the test. We drenched 26 pounds of lettuce and put them through the wringer, noting the percent of water removed from each batch. Then we repeated it all two more times. These are the best salad spinners you can buy, according to testing; plus, several additions that caught our eye:

• Best Overall Salad Spinner: Oxo Good Grips Salad Spinner
• Best Value Salad Spinner: Progressive International Salad Spinner
• Best Large Salad Spinner: Farberware Pro Pump Salad Spinner
• Best Collapsible Salad Spinner: Progressive InternationalCollapsible Salad Spinner
• Best Small Salad Spinner: Oxo Good Grips Little Salad & Herb Spinner
• Most Popular Salad Spinner on Amazon: Mueller Austria Salad Spinner
• Best Stainless Steel Salad Spinner: Oxo Steel Salad Spinner
• Best Pull-String Salad Spinner: Zyliss Easy Spin Salad Spinner
• Best Salad Spinner for Draining: Cuisinart Salad Spinner

What type of salad spinner is best?

Generally, there are three types of salad spinners you'll have to choose from:

• Pump operated salad spinners require you to push down on a large button to activate the spin. We find these easiest to use because one push usually creates many spins, making quick work of washing leaves.
• P ull-string salad spinners work like they sound; you pull a string to activate the spin. ood momentum, too, but we don't love how the string gets wet during use and eventually discolors.
• Manual salad spinners often come with a small handle that you turn. They work, but they're a little harder to use and usually more flimsy because they're made of cheaper materials.

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Best Overall Salad Spinner

Good Grips Salad Spinner

When it comes to salad spinners, Oxo's Good Grips was our top performer for how easy it was to use. It has a large, slip-proof pump and a responsive stopper. Its wide-bowled nonslip base, gives it a unique look that makes it a pretty tabletop-serving piece, too. The lid comes apart for cleaning, as do the lids on the mini and stainless versions below.

• Large capacity
• Very easy to use

• Grip on bottom discolors over time

2

Best Value Salad Spinner

Salad Spinner with Handle

Progressive International amazon.com

$26.95

The handle on this salad spinner makes it easier to stabilize than other salad spinners of this kind. It also makes it easy to reach for when stored high up in a cabinet. It has a small, 2 1/2 quart capacity, perfect for the solo diner. It's also lightweight.

• Small capacity
• Handle for stabilizing

• Handle makes spinner bulky to store

3

Best Large Salad Spinner

Pro Pump Salad Spinner

Farberware amazon.com

$19.99

This pump-operated spinner has a stopper and a lock to hold the pump down for easy storage. With a 6.65 quart bowl and a 5.5 quart colander, it's the largest of our featured bunch.

• Large capacity
• Easy to operate

4

Best Collapsible Salad Spinner

Collapsible Salad Spinner

Progressive International amazon.com

$32.99

This three-quart spinnercollapses to roughly half its sizeso it won't hog space in your cabinets. While it's excellent at drying lettuce, you need to use two hands to work its spinning knob.

• Medium sized
• Collapses for storage

• Spinning mechanism is a little small and hard to operate

5

Best Small Salad Spinner

Good Grips Little Salad & Herb Spinner

The Oxo Good Grips Little Salad and Herb Spinner ismade for solo eaters or couples. With a two-and-a-half-quart basket capacity, it's perfect for drying leaves for smaller portions of lettuce, berries, or herbs. It also takes up minimal space in the cabinet, ideal for city dwellers.

• Compact size
• Works just as efficiently as larger version

• Silicone grip on bottom discolors over time

6

Most Popular Salad Spinner on Amazon

5L Salad Spinner

Mueller Austria amazon.com

This salad spinner that's just over five quartsoperates like a pull string, but without the actual string, which means no soggy materials that tend to discolor over time. The top of the lid has a large surface area so you can get a good grip while using and the corner offers a drain so you can empty while the lid is still on.

• Pulls to operate with no string
• Squared top helps prevent wobbling

• Reviewers say pulling mechanism doesn't always catch and can feel loose

7

Best Stainless Steel Salad Spinner

Steel Salad Spinner

This four-quart stainless steel bowl from OXOdoubles as a classy tabletop-serving piece. It's super easy to use and will spin your lettuce dry. However, with its semi-domed lid, it's hard to stack things on top of it.

• Large, 6-quart capacity
• Sleek; doubles as a serving bowl

• Must be dried thoroughly after use to avoid potential rusting

8

Best Pull-String Salad Spinner

Easy Spin Salad Spinner

Zyliss amazon.com

You need two hands to operate the pull-cord, two-quart Zyliss Easy Spin Salad Spinner, but it willleave your greens perfectly dry. Because it's small and compact (the pull cord lies flat in the lid for stackable storage), it's ideal for single servings of salad. Unlike some pump-operated salad spinners, the lid is made up of one piece for easier cleaning.

• Wide bowl make for sturdier spinning
• Pull string has large handle that is easy to use

• String gets wets and discolors over time

9

Best Salad Spinner for Draining

Salad Spinner

The low-priced, four-quart Cuisinart Salad Spinner lets you wash and dry the lettuce with the lid on. It has a hole for filling and draining, and locks into place so you won't accidentally fill your sink with greens. Note that it doesn't include a brake, so you'll have to stop it manually.

• Lid has hole for filling with lid on
• Lid locks on for draining

• Reviewers say plastic cracks easily if dropped

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