It is fun to use and clean up is pretty easy. It is built well. And my salads taste fresher.

I started to read the negative reviews on this item (I rarely read anything else, since this is where you get either needed info or a good laugh). I just couldn't believe what people were saying about this almost perfect device.

I've been using mine for over 5 years now, and it does much more than "salad spinning". You can literally let your imagination go wild with this thing.

There are less expensive salad spinners, but this is ultimately the one to rely on. It is worth every penny. The ergonomic OXO design is flawless, as usual, and easy to use with wet hands during a flurry of preparation activity like making a quick dressing. I particularly like the pump action which leaves me free to multitask while getting the dry leaves I insist on. This is a much better approach than a hand-cranked or battery-operated spin system, approaches that wound up in the trash. I keep a year around kitchen garden, so this OXO spinner gets a daily workout. It is dishwasher safe and sturdy enough to take the bowl and basket with me into the garden. The practical design makes rinsing and drying a snap. I fill the basket and bowl with fresh-picked lettuce and top it off with water for a quick soak to loosen any soil or organic visitors, then pour off the water, removing the bowl to rinse. A good trick for crispy greens is to refill the bowl with fresh water and drop a few ice cubes in with the greens for a few minutes. Meanwhile, make a quick, fresh dressing in the bottom of your serving bowl. Rinse and spin dry. Place the dry leaves on top of the dressing and don't toss until you get to the table. Don't have a garden? Grow mesclun mix in a large pot for a continual harvest using scissors, leaving the roots in place. A mere 35 days from seed to table. Try Renee's Garden "Paris Market Mix." Cleaned, dry greens get very crisp and store well in a refrigerated spinner for a few days. Yes, the container is a little large, but it needs to be, and aren't great salads something worth making room for?

My wife and I eat salads every day. Before we starting using the salad spinner we were throwing a lot of salad ingrediants away. The salad spinner makes cleaning greens easy. Once the salad is made, the salad spinner dries the greens and keeps the salad fresher longer. The large capacity salad bowl stores a couple of days worth of salads. It helps keep salad prep time down to a minimum. We think it was well worth the investment.

When I received this Oxo salad spinner as a gift, I gave away my trusty MIU salad spinner.

Big mistake!

The Oxo salad spinner didn't spin anywhere near as fast as the MIU spinner = lettuce doesn't get dry enough. Plus, the Oxo salad spinner was big, clunky and hard to store.

Do yourself a favor and buy the MIU salad spinner. It holds more lettuce, spins faster (so your lettuce gets drier), and actually fits inside your fridge when you want to chill your freshly washed lettuce for dinner.

This is a nice item to clean your salad mixings. It is easy to clean and I would highly recommend this.

We received one of these salad spinners as a gift 10 years ago, and we use it on a regular basis. Not only is it a great spinner, storing the greens in the spinner in the fridge extends their life immensely (compared to any sort of plastic bag--even those veggie bags that extend the life of the greens).

Stop buying bagged salad kits and save money on your grocery bill. Salad kits cost about $3-$4 per pound (most bags come in 12oz or 9oz sizes).

This is a huge time saver for home-cooked meals. No more shaking wet lettuce in the sink! The spinner rotates quickly with a few light pushes. It also has a brake and the container can double as a storage bowl for leafy greens.

The spinner works great for more than salad. Try cabbage for slaw, shrimp for cocktails and vegetable slices for grilling and baking.

I knew I wanted a salad spinner, but I didn't know how much I would love it until I got one! Not only does it dry lettuce beautifully, but it keeps it fresh for AGES. I wash the lettuce, spin dry and then store it in the spinner in the fridge. If you have a small fridge, you may want a smaller model--it does take up a good amount of space. Highly recommended!

I highly recommend this as one of the must haves in the kitchen. All of the stand alone draining cannot get rid of the excess water from washing. I particularly this OXO brand because it comes with an additional plastic top so I store my leafy greens in the fridge without the spinning rod. I also use it for my fruits, and it has proven especially handy for getting off the moisture from washing my strawberries so I could dip them in chocolate. I did spin some french fries in it to get off the excess grease, but didn't enjoy having to clean out all of those grid spaces, but worked well for this also.

it was very sturdy as I have accidentally dropped it several times.

Throwing away brown, slimy lettuce used to be my hobby. But I saw the OXO salad spinner listed as a "cool tool" on Kevin Kelly's web site and decided I would try one, even though it seemed a tad expensive. I'll tell ya', throwing away lettuce is expensive! This thing works. It is as simple as that. It feels heavy and well built, too. The mechanism is very solid feeling. Recommended!

This is the second Oxo Salad Spinner I have owned. I used my previous one daily for many, many years. The only reason I bought a new one is because I dropped it and it had a small crack in it. I love the new clear top. Wouldn't use anything else to prepare a salad.

It broke the second time I used it.
I bought this product because I liked the smaller size and trusted the Oxo brand. What a mistake! The second time I used it, I set it, per the instructions, but when I pushed the pump mechanism, it went down half way and then jammed. I tried everything, I even took it apart and put it back together, but the stupid thing would not function properly. I would advase against buying this product.

When I bought this product, I was unsure of how much it would hold. It holds an entire head of leaf lettuce, which is exactly what I wanted it to do. It is great. I can soak, wash, spin and eat my lettuce all in one bowl. I was previously using at least three bowls every time.

For anyone else out there that follows Dr. Fuhrman's dietary guidelines, this is perfect. It makes preparing those large salads, and it is attractive. The handle retracts for storage. It is made of sturdy materials, and overall I'm very impressed. I'm glad I spent the extra money to got the good one.

I wanted a salad spinner and this one looked like a good one, but I never would have spent this much money on a salad spinner for myself. I figured for as often as I would probably use it, I should get a cheaper one.

A friend kept me from making that mistake. I've now had this salad spinner for a couple of years, and it turns out that this one is not only durable enough to survive my abuse, but I use it for just about every fruit and vegetable that comes into the house.

No, I don't spin a bag full of apples. But I do wash all my produce when I bring it home. (That way, if I'm trying to decide between a peach and a bag of potato chips, I can't use the excuse that I don't feel like washing the peach.) Apples, peaches, plums, pears, and so on all get loaded into the salad spinner. I fill it with water and a splash of vinegar. (That seams to get the produce clean faster than plain water alone.) I use the inner basket to swish everything around, then pull it out and dump the water, and rinse everything in the basket. A quick shake, then I leave the basket in the dish rack for an hour or two. The produce dries and gets put into the produce bin in the fridge. Repeat with grapes, cherries, strawberries... all the smaller, more fragile fruits. I even spin those gently, and they dry more quickly.

Veggies get the same treatment. While the fruits are drying in the basket I'm cutting up broccoli, cauliflower, and whatever other vegetables I've gotten. They get washed, rinsed, spun a bit, and stored in a plastic bag with a paper towel to absorb what little moisture remains.

At the end of the day when I'm tired and I want to eat NOW and I've thrown burgers on the grill, it's a lot easier to throw some veggies on the grill too when they're already washed and cut up. If I could just figure out a way to use this for mushrooms, I'd be all set.

And yes, I do use this for salad. Just about everything that's going into the salad goes in the spinner to be washed, rinsed, and spun. And I use less salad dressing because it sticks to dry lettuce leaves better and doesn't get diluted from the water on the leaves.

If I had gotten myself a cheap, flimsy salad spinner I would probably never use it. This is stored on top of the refrigerator. I keep it handy because I use it all the time.

This is terrific. It works like a charm and keeps lettuce fresh for much longer than any other storage I've found.
Having said that, I have the benefit of an extra refrigerator. It takes up quite a bit of space in the fridge.

Well-manufactured, excellent design, useful salad spinner has been utilized since I unpacked the box. Highly recommend.

I was very disappointed in this item. My daughter has one and loves it but the one I received did not work and I had to send it back.

Love this product. It is so easy to spin and dry salad greens with one push of the button, it makes making a fresh salad a joy.

This is an amazingly convenient little unit. It make quick work of salad for one or two, cleans easily, and takes up little cabinet space. Also makes cleaning fresh herbs a snap! This will rinse sand, dirt, critters and debris from a handful of mint, lemon balm, or basil making their use!) Imagine mint tea or juleps without grit, lemon balm tea without mystery additives, and basil cleaned and dried enough for fresh tomatoes and olive oil.

Fill the bowl and soak tired greens in cold water. Use the strainer to drain the water then spin the greens for a much improved crispy salad. You can even wash and soak and drain dried beans in this, leaving dirt behind.

I keep finding more uses for this small version, but its larger cousin gets almost as much use in as many different ways.

Used this for about 7 months. The bottom part wasn't as sturdy as we had hoped. It cracked and leaked water from the pressure of operating the spinner. Can't hold a good amount of water without bending out of shape and almost breaking. After about a year of moderate/occasional use, the spinning mechanism finally came to a grinding halt. I'm looking for a sturdier product now.

We eat a salad nearly every day and like the convenience of the bagged salads. However, with the concern over contaminates in produce such as salads we had begun washing the greens...something we had not done previously. It has been difficult to remove all the water and the result has been a somewhat watered down salad when the dressing is added. This salad spinner does a good job of removing the excess water.

I purchased this Spinner a few years ago and use it maybe once every few weeks. It works great for its intendend purpose - salads and veggies, but I also like to use it for pasta. If you're going to make a pasta salad and want to strain out all the water before you mix it all up with your ingredients, this works great. Like many others, I am one who likes to read the 1-star reviews 1st before deciding to purchase anything and after reading them for this, all I have to say is - I haven't tried any other salad spinners to compare this to, but maybe it is possible that the 1-star reviewers just got 'lemons' or could be that maybe this isn't good for every-single-day use? Who knows, all I know is I am giving this 5-stars because I give mine what I would think is 'normal' use and it works wonderfully!

I've always scoffed at salad spinners, but this one really works. I use it for salad, but mostly for fresh herbs that I grow. Once they are cleaned off in the spinner I put them in plastic bags and then into the vegetable drawer. They last indefinetly in the refrigerator.

I love it. I use it for all the greens we get in our "greens share." Herbs, lettuce. Easy to use. Good for storage. Very easy to clean.

Product design is excellent and is well made.
May be the best salad spinner ever!

Works just as expected. OXO seems to always make quality products and this is no exception. Easy to use.

I was unable to get the salad spinner to spin with salad in the basket. It worked fine empty. I tossed it out and will start using pre-washed lettuce again.

I have grown my own sprouts in a big jar with some window screen rubber-banded over it since 1979. They are very easy to grow and incredibly nutritious (much more so than lettuce.) But getting them dried off so they won't mold in storage has always been a hassle until I bought this salad spinner. I dump my sprouts into the spinner and fill it up with water. Then I slosh the sprouts around which causes the seed hulls to float to the top where you can slosh them right on out of the bowl. Lift up the inner bowl, dump the water from the outer bowl, spin the sprouts and they are immediately ready for storage. I don't store them in the spinner, but I suppose I could.

I have needed a solution to wet salad - this is it! I usually forget to wash the salad until right before we eat it & it always ends up wet & soggy. Now the salad gets clean & dry right before we eat it.

Usually, if I say "about 5 seconds," I'm exaggerating, but not this time. It was literally after only a few seconds of use that my salad spinner broke. When I pay over $20 for a bowl, I expect it to last at least minutes. Well the bowl itself and inner colander are okay, so at least I will salvage about $5 of my money's worth. It was the lid that popped and snapped and twisted and all sorts of great things.

I love this product! It holds a lot of lettuce and does a great job drying. I store my salads in this container and it lasts several days longer . I would highly recommend this product! Well worth the cost.

Instead of some kind of pull string, this has a huge button you have to pump to get it spinning. So as a result, there's a large projection from the bottom of the lid down into the bowl. You kind of have to work around it and not stack your lettuce too much in the middle of the bowl.

It's amazing that somebody finally did sell something what does exactly that it was advertised to do... and I thank you graciously!

So much easier to rinse veggies and fruits. The pump spinning mechanism is super easy to use and very efficient.