Zyliss Featured in The Guardian's Must-Have Kitchen Gadgets

The Guardian: Seven kitchen gadgets I can’t live without: ‘How does anyone make a salad without one?’

Keen cook Elizabeth Quinn opens her drawer to share the culinary tools that save her time, sanity and fingertips.

What makes a kitchen gadget a culinary gamechanger? An indispensable item of the kitchen toolkit doesn’t have to be hi-tech or fancy but it does have to earn its place in the cutlery drawer.

The salad spinner comes a close second to my spatula. It’s the first thing I look for when I’m preparing salad in someone else’s kitchen. If my host doesn’t have one, I’m never sure how to proceed. If the answer to “How do you dry your lettuce?” is patting gently with paper towels or performing some kind of frenzied windmill impersonation with a tea towel, I have an urge – which I (mostly) resist – to throw my hands in the air.

The following seven kitchen gadgets may not change your life, but each one might enhance your enjoyment of meal preparation. Put them all together and you have the potential to save time, fingertips and your sanity.

Salad spinner

A Zyliss salad spinner ensures salad leaves are thoroughly dried.

How does anyone make a salad without one of these? I have used every iteration of the Zyliss salad spinner (the Swiss brand was one of the first companies to make the gadget in 1978), from the pull cord through to the manual knob spin to the push-button incarnation. There are many advantages to thoroughly washed and dried lettuce leaves, chief among them they require very little dressing. Wet lettuce leaves cause dressing run-off, which requires more dressing per leaf for an equivalent amount of flavour.

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