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One tool that is a must have for me is my salad spinner (especially with all the recent lettuce and spinach scares).  I use this for salad greens and herbs.  It’s really a great design.  When I was looking for a salad spinner, I found a lot of options, but many of them seemed like they would break in the first week.  One of the designs I came across was the spin wheel with a pull string.  While I found this design amusing and probably a great deal of fun to use, I worried that eventually the string would give out and I would need to purchase a new salad spinner.  The spinner I finally settled on was an Oxo spinner.  This spinner has a great design.  There is a push handle to get the greens moving and a button to stop spinning.  The is also a latch to hold the push handle down when you put the spinner away.  It cost around $20 and I have to say I use it pretty much every day.  (A word to the wise when using spinners, don’t overload them.  If you overload the spinner, your greens will never get dry and your dressing won’t be able to coat the leaves of the lettuce.)