This Good Design Award-winning gadget does double duty as both a colander and a salad spinner, so you won’t waste space storing both in your kitchen! Here’s how it works: This tool begins as a colander with a long handle. With a twist of the wrist, the handle is able to be lifted over the top of the colander bowl, snapped into place and now it’s ready to spin. It features a suction cup on the bottom that keeps the Spina sturdy in your sink basin (which is where you should use this, not your counter!) and high, slightly inwardly curved walls that keep food in the bowl without contending with a bulky lid. When you’re done, the handle can even fold back inside the bowl, so it won’t take up any more room than a standard colander and can nestle neatly into your existing mixing bowls.
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The colander function works wonderfully to strain pasta, wash fruit and veggies and all of the typical uses. And of course, it will dry your greens in a flash when used as a salad spinner. But the real ingenuity comes through when you use both settings on the same food. Wash your berries and then spin them to dry so they don’t water down your yogurt bowl. Or give pasta a spin if you added too much olive oil after draining. Seriously, we’ll look for any excuse to use this thing we love it so much.
This is only meant to use while inside a deep sink basin. Otherwise, you will splatter water all over your kitchen. Dishwasher safe.
Alex Gransbury and his company Dreamfarm have been inventing ingenious tools that solve everyday kitchen problems for two decades. Every innovative gadget they release outperforms the existing industry gold standard—like their brilliant Garject, which presses and releases garlic cloves with minimal waste and no residual odor on your hands, or their self-cleaning Flisk—and cooking becomes easier, more efficient and less messy.
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