"So, you know how I broke the salad spinner when I let Buddy lick the pancake batter out of it and he ran away with it and tried to eat it?"
"Yeah."
"So, well, I really hate not having a salad spinner. It makes washing lettuce so difficult. So I tried something new."
"AMY! What did you do?"
"Well, um, I put the washed salad in a paper bag, stapled it shut, and then put it in the dryer on 'no heat.' "
[incredulous look] "You are crazy."
[pause]
"So, how'd it work?"
"Well, the good news is that the lettuce is dry. But I guess that damp paper bags don't do well on tumble dry, so the lettuce is kind of all over the inside of the dryer."
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One of my aunties likes to use a dishcloth, bundled up, as a salad spinner. You take it outside (or in the bathtub, in cold weather), spin the salad around, and let centrifugal force do the work. I use a rice sack towel--yes, rice, not flour, I think it makes my salads more Asian--for my salad spinning.
Okay, so I have received several questions about how this might happen. Here is Hollis' email:
"ok, so how did pancake batter got into the salad spinner in the first
place? . . . another thing you can try is a Katy Kropf special - put
the wet lettuce in the middle of a dry dishtowel, gather up the sides,
and spin it around in the air over your head or around in a circle.
It works!"
My reply was this:
"it was this cool salad spinner that also doubled as a pitcher/measuring device. We would use it for pancakes because you could pour right from it. And, yes, I know the K.K. method -- I was being lazy. Plus, I always get everything wet when I do it the swinging over my head method."
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