If your salad spinner is due for a replacement, don't toss it just yet. There are tons of clever ways to reuse it around the house.

We saw this trick on TikTok. For the longest time, we’ve always put our greens in the colander part of our salad spinner, rinsed them off under running water, then put the basket back in the ...

A salad spinner streamlines this: Add the beans to the colander and cover with cold water. While the beans soak, the residue will fall to the bottom.

This salad spinner consists of a clear, 6-quart plastic bowl, a plastic inner basket and a lid with a pump mechanism built into it. The lid also has a brake button to stop the spinner, along with ...

9. Clean and Drain Beans If you’re cleaning canned beans, put aside the bowl of the salad spinner at first and dump the beans into the basket.

When picking out a salad spinner, check that it has a large enough capacity to meet your needs. Also look for other handy features, such as locking lids, vented bowls, and non-slip bases.

If you love salad and fresh lettuce or cook with a lot of herbs, you should have this in your kitchen arsenal. The Chef’n Salad Spinner costs $24.99 for a small and $29.99 for a large at chefn.com.