What a good idea! I never thought of using my spinner that way and it makes so much sense. Thank you so much for the suggestion.

Ken, my sister sent me an Oxo spinner for my birthday last year and I love it, too!

Zabby

My spinner (the larger model) is getting used also for the blanched and frozen waxed beans too. Its nice to fill a gallon bag, freeze, and then one 'whack' they are all loose inside gain. Sometimes my spinner gets 'out of track', and will sieze up while I push, but its ony if its heavy with stuff, like lots of blanched broccoli. I cut about 6 inches back from the head bases of the stems below the heads and slice these into 1/2 inch disks. They get an extra 30 second blanch and are all seperated flowerettes get bagged together. Right now, I picked a few tiny flowerettes and added them to my leaf lettuce along with some pickling cukes and a few radishes. All was enjoyed with my fat free, calorie free salad dressing. I had to tone the dressing down a little as the vinegar was a bit much. I jus added some more dried tomato powder and a dash of Splenda and that brought it up to a decent French type dressing. Have enough lettuce greens for about 6 whole meals of just salads alone. Where's those tomatoes??

I have the big one too and love it!

Sure is a great, productive way to take out your aggressions as well. :-)

I haven't tried it on chunkier veggies but sure will now.

Deanna

I have a friend who is looking for a spinner made of metal and not plastic. She wants to spin cooked hamburger to reduce the amount of fat in it. I found one made of stainless steel but the basket inside was plastic. Anyone know a source? --Ilene

How about de-fatting the ground beef using the washer's spin-cycle? You'll have to heap the ground beef onto layers of cheesecloth and tie them up into tight bundles. The clean-up would be easy too. :)

Defatting ground beef. No, its done at grinding time using lean cuts, or drained off after cooking. Spinning meat with its fat contains will not seperate, as both are solids and have nearly similar densities. On the other hand, milk is seperated from its heavier and fatty cream, as both are in the same liquid. About all you can do for a metal spinner would be to find a commercial device that is made to handle a few hundred (or thousands) of pounds of washed greens.