Salad spinners are commonly used to dry salad leaves, herbs, or other similar food items. A typical salad spinner generally includes an external bowl supporting an internal basket. The basket is supported in a manner in which it can spin within the bowl, thereby propelling items within the basket toward the perimeter of the basket. Water attached to lettuce leaves is likewise flung to the perimeter where it is expelled through holes in the basket while being retained within the bowl. Consequently, the leaves or other items within the bowl are dried.
One problem with salad spinners is that they are bulky and therefore inconvenient to store. This inconvenience is magnified for those who tend to use them only infrequently, consuming a significant amount of space for an item that is used on an occasional basis. Nonetheless, there has been no solution to this problem.