What's the best way to clean a salad spinner?
We had taco salads last night for dinner. Cleaning the little bits of shredded lettuce out of the salad spinner seemed to take forever. Despite scrubbing and lots of rinsing, little bits of lettuce were still clinging to the inner bowl (in between the slits in the bowl). I finally resorted to picking out the lettuce bits by hand in order to be sure I got them all. Is there an easy way to clean this thing?
We could try washing the lettuce first, then shredding, but what about the pre-packaged lettuce that's already shredded? I'd heard you're still supposed to wash that too.
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I've never done this, but what about filling the bowl with water, lowering the spinning basket into it so the lettuce shreds lift off, then dumping it out?
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Answer 2
There's a number of ways to avoid this:
- You're dead on, wash lettuce and then shred. That will make a huge difference.
- Don't buy pre-shredded lettuce as you're paying extra for the grocery store to cut lettuce (really not that hard to do yourself).
- Lettuce from the grocery store will often say "pre-washed, ready to eat" or something to that effect. You don't need to wash lettuce if that's the case. If you don't trust the grocery store to wash your lettuce, I'd suggest not shopping there.
- If you can't avoid the small bits (maybe you're washing herbs from a garden), I find the easiest thing to do is to use a spray setting on the faucet and spray it from the outside. That seems to be the best approach, but it's still a bit of a pain. Using a sponge on the inside is pretty worthless (at getting rid of small bits).
But in general, avoid the issue by only putting large things in the spinner.
Answer 3
In practice: If a dishwasher is available, use it. Most plastic cookware (including salad spinners) will survive a dishwasher fine - and the spray and modern detergents (which tend to use enzymatic components that actively dissolve and not just loosen small food scraps) in a dishwasher will usually dislodge these bits out easily.
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