ext_21126 ([identity profile] scjody.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eveglass 2010-01-15 01:06 am (UTC)

You can improvise a salad spinner if you have a colander. Get about 1-2m of string and tie an end onto each handle forming a long loop. Put the spinach in the colander, and whirl over your head. Water goes everywhere, but it's just water, and not very much of it. Works as well as a "real" salad spinner and doesn't take up any additional counter space (plus you can now easily hang your colander to dry rather than have it take up half your drying rack.)

Re: oil, another alternative is to get an old empty can and put the oil in that. Eventually it will cool & you can dump it. Or just keep adding more oil every time you fry stuff. This is more important for grease from cooking meat, which will harden so you really don't want to put it down the drain.

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