Ina Garten Doesn’t Need Your Fancy Salad Spinner Nonsense
A great tweet from this afternoon came from author Roxane Gay (well, actually retweetd by our Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein), who managed to recap and Vine the always brilliant Ina Garten’s solution to a salad spinner: Just wrap your salad in a towel and whip it around your head with great force — and voila! Dry lettuce.
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Uhhh, I mean — why wouldn’t it work? The Barefoot Contessa has never led me astray. Other than that time she said a roast lemon chicken would lead to a proposal for marriage.
A Chowhound user mentions trying Ina’s technique after their salad spinner broke. The user notes they didn’t have a large enough towel, so they subbed with a “salad cloth bag,’’ which sounds like cheating Ina’s faith in centrifugal force to me, but whatever.
They wrote:
I used it the first time last night. I put the greens in and started spinning away. Whew water was flying all over the place because the cloth was so thin. Maybe I should have bought the fancy one, but I wrapped the bag in another layer of kitchen towel and water stopped flying out. The salad was noticeably dryer. We were very pleased with the result.
I’m really interested to know if this method works with your standard kitchen or tea towel. Salad spinners are relatively clunky, space-consuming accessories in a city kitchen, but a necessary evil for anyone who eats a lot of salads. A quick, no-fuss, makeshift replacement would be great.
Also, this would be basically free, so other than a little kitchen dignity, what do you have to lose?
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