A salad spinner.<\/p>\n
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Reasons:<\/p>\n
1. Lettuce is probably sentient. Give the poor lettuce a little fun before its final demise.<\/p>\n
2. Unwashed lettuce will kill you. You’re probably safer eating roadkill in August than unwashed greens.<\/p>\n
3. Wet salad is horrid. It isn’t even salad, really. It’s raw soup.<\/p>\n
4. Water on a salad plate, when you’ve finished your salad, is horrid.<\/p>\n
5. There are only two other ways to dry lettuce, unless you want to wait a couple of days.<\/p>\n
6. Drying lettuce with a hair dryer wilts it. While wilted lettuce salad is, admittedly, a culinary mainstay, no known recipe<\/a> suggests wilting it with forced hot air.<\/p>\n 7. The only other way to dry your lettuce is to daub it with something.<\/p>\n 8. Daubing it with a dish towel will re-contaminate it with the pathogens you just washed off. Don’t you want to live?<\/p>\n 9. Daubing it with paper towels is safer, but paper towels are made from trees, and cutting down trees is bad . . .<\/p>\n 10. Never mind. I’m going back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A salad spinner. Reasons: 1. Lettuce is probably sentient. Give the poor lettuce a little fun before its final demise. 2. Unwashed lettuce will kill you. You’re probably safer eating roadkill in August than unwashed greens. 3. Wet salad is … Continue reading