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Salad spinner

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, salad spinner means: A container with a rotating basket that removes water from washed leaves.

In Turkish: salata kurutucu

How it is used

Common in salad preparation; spin the leaves describes using this tool.

Example sentences

  1. The salad spinner removed excess water from the lettuce.

    Rotation moves water away from the leaves through the basket.

  2. Empty the salad spinner bowl before the next batch.

    The outer bowl collects water expelled during spinning.

Common collocations

  • use a salad spinner
  • salad spinner basket
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.
  • produceFresh fruit, vegetables and herbs, and sometimes other fresh farm products, as bought and stored by a kitchen.

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