How to Get Washed Salad Greens Perfectly Without a Spinner

There is a better and cheaper way to dry salad greens.

For clean and dry salad greens, you just need a clean pillow case. Alena Haurylik/Shutterstock

I was way off base when I guessed “egg-gathering basket.” Leslie Hindman, host of the TV show “Appraisal Fair,” held up this round cage contraption with folding sides and asked us to guess, “What the Heck Is It?” Salad spinner was the right choice, but who knew people were wasting their money on needless pieces of kitchen equipment back in the 1980s?

I used to have a salad spinner. It worked OK but not as well as the currently popular OXO model, even it does not remove all of the water from a load of salad greens—and it takes up a lot of storage space.