Gadgets Schmadgets - Kitchen Towel Salad Spinner...

Just look at this kitchen.

Does it look like there's room for a salad spinner???

If you answered YES, you would be INCORRECT. There is no room for a salad spinner. There's barely room for the stove.

And yet a salad spinner serves a useful purpose because who likes their dressing diluted by ubiquitous beads of water? Or, in the case of tonight's dinner, who wants their kale to get steamed when they really want it sauteed?

Lucky for those of us with tiny cooking spaces, some things, like kitchen towels, do double, even triple duty. Today, in addition to drying dishes and standing in for an oven mitt, my kitchen towel stood in as salad spinner.

HOW TO USE YOUR KITCHEN TOWEL AS A SALAD SPINNER

1) Place your washed greens on the center of the towel.

2) Tie diagonal ends together to fashion a handle for yourself.

3) Go outside, away from windows, and using the same centrifugal force that powers an actual salad spinner, spin that satchel of greens like there's no tomorrow until you no longer feel little beads of water hitting your face. (Usually takes anywhere from 50 to 100 really quick spins.)

Also, try to do it when no one's watching.

4) Come back inside, open up your kitchen towel salad spinner and !VOILA! Dry greens. :)

Ok, so there are a few teeny, tiny beads of water,
but that happens with the actual gadget, too...

5) Wring out that towel and let it air dry somewhere.

Back to making ravioli,

shinae

P.S. The Man just told me that the pic makes the kitchen look way bigger than it is. It's not.