My friend the salad spinner

I was eating dinner with a friend today.  She asked how I prepared the micro green salad I served.  I said, simply, “Just wash in the salad spinner.”  “What?” she said, genuinely not knowing what a salad spinner does. This isn’t a story to make fun of her, because up until a few years ago, I had no use for a salad spinner either.  It seemed like a gimmicky one-use tool, precisely the kind of [...]