Ikea 601.486.78 Tokig Salad Spinner, White

The nearest ikea store to me is nearly three hours away. The gas alone would have made this salad spinner cost way more than I wanted to spend on one. This is a great price for this product as it is very sturdy and reliable. The handle is a spin handle rather than a push button one, which is great because those push button ones wear out and strip over time. This salad spinner can get pretty fast if your even mildly coordinated. Very easy to operate and clean. Shipped brand new in shrink wrap.

I was looking at a more expensive salad spinner with the pumping action rather than spinning action on top but my partner, who makes most of the salads, insisted that design always breaks and he preferred this design. I've always liked Ikea products for their simplicity of design and function and the price was significantly less than the pumping action one, so decided to order this one. My partner really likes the design of this salad spinner. He showed me how there is space between the inside basket where you put the greens and the bottom of the spinner bowl so there's a place for the water to go after spinning, rather than having the greens sitting in water. He also said it spins easily. The only complaint he had (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5) was that it was smaller than we would have liked. It would be nice if the seller would say how many cups the basket inside holds and if they offered 2 sizes.

You might not know this...I bought this Ikea Tokig salad spinner to spin dry short hair wigs in. And it works beautifully. Have to tuck the hairs in the wig cap, yet the spinning gets quite a bit of the water out so there is no dripping when the wig is removed. I put one short hair wig in one way, spun it, and removed the lid and dumped the captured water, and then replaced the wig in a different way, and spun again. The second time has less resistance. Then I take the wig out of the basket, and it is damp but not dripping, and ready to fluff. Dumped the water, took apart the spinner and basket and lid so they can dry. I will use it for my Buffs and scarves, too. No twisting or rolling up in towels, which also have to be dried. I should have bought the deal with 2 for price of 1 and a half, but I wasn't sure it would work. It does, and I'd buy the deal for two because, well, one would be great for salad, too!

This simple to use and easy to clean little gadget is a winner. will hold one head of ice berg lettuce or 2 to 3 bunches of romaine lettuce. the simple spin handle mechanism makes it easy to operate and difficult to break. This is a winner both with price and quality. it will also be nice to use with berries and grapes.

I asked my wife for a lit of what she wanted for her birthday and a salad spinner was on the list. I didn't know how to approach this. I mean... how do you shop for a salad spinner? I looked at the selection available on Amazon and there was one made by IKEA. How can you go wrong with IKEA. Right? So, I ordered it and was surprised by the quality of the spinner, for the price. It seems very durable and works great. Great buy!

Who knew holes in the bottom bowl would be so important? I had an ancient blue salad spinner that finally gave up the ghost after 10+ years of service, so it was time to replace it. This had good customer ratings (I admit I'm beginning to put less importance on these, because it seems like more and more people must be being paid to write good reviews), the price was right and it wasn't huge, seemed perfect for my small kitchen. The biggest design flaw is that the outer clear bowl has no drainage holes, so for example when washing lettuce from the garden I have to stop, take it all apart, pour out the accumulated water, reassemble, spin again.....then repeat that process sometimes 4 or 5 times to get the lettuce as dry as I desire. It's cumbersome to do all that. If I had know that in advance I would have looked closer at the designs and purchased one with better drainage. Now, I'm not saying it doesn't work.....it just take a whole lot more work than it should be.

Let me start out by saying that I owned a salad spinner decades ago. Its handle broke shortly after I got it. I'm assuming that today's plastics are more durable than they were years ago. It's clear that the handle design of this spinner is better than the other spinner. I originally gave this spinner three stars, and then decided to raise it to four. In the beginning, I had trouble getting the top on and off, but I have since learned the knack. (You have to lift the top next to the handle to keep it from grabbing.) Also, it seemed to me that the spinner didn't hold a lot of water, but that hasn't proved to be a problem. (If you are spinning more than one batch of lettuce, you should pour the water out between spins.) For the relatively low price, this is a good product. I'm very pleased to have this spinner. It is so much easier than manually shaking each piece of lettuce over the sink. Let me say a little about cleaning vegetables. I read recently that it is more effective to hold vegetables under streaming water than to dunk them in water. But if you hold them under streaming water, you may miss some parts of the lettuce, and you'll waste a lot of water. So what I do is this: First, I found a large bowl that I didn't need for anything else. I fill the bowl, and then I submerge the lettuce and shake it to dislodge all the dirt. That seems to get the lettuce very clean. Cleaning vegetables is very important. Sometimes I'm amazed by how much brown silt accumulates at the bottom of the bowl. Of course, it's not possible to see how much pesticide comes off, but pesticide is more dangerous than silt, since it can cause neurological problems (people who live in rural areas get more Parkinson's disease, and that disease is a misery). When I was young, I'd often eat romaine lettuce without cleaning it. Now, I'm horrified that I ever did such a thing.

After reading reviews, I was a little nervous, as it seems people seem to either love or hate their spinners. This one is easy enough to grip, spins very fast and pretty easily, and is easy to pull the lid off and put it back on. It's a pretty simple device, but it does its job well. It might feel like it's made of relatively cheap plastic, but it also doesn't feel like it's going to break any time soon with regular usage. No complaints here, especially for the price.

Excellent way to dry your greens

Just the job, simple to use and sturdy. You can store left over washed & dried lettuce leaves for a couple of days in the sealed container. We use it often, as we grow lettuce all year.

It works fine

Excellent product. Every kitchen shoul have this.

Fenomenal, cómodo de usar, cómodo de limpiar y escurre perfectamente las verduras para ensalada. El tamaño es perfecto, ni demasiado grande como para que resulte engorroso y molesto de guardar, ni tan pequeño como para que te obligue a hacerlo en varias veces. Como todo lo de ikea, muy bien diseñado y muy buena relación calidad-precio