Best Salad Spinner 2026: 7 Compared

The best salad spinner is the OXO Good Grips 6.22-quart pump spinner. It has won America’s Test Kitchen since 1999 and Wirecutter since 2014, and in Serious Eats’ weigh test it left 3.38 percent of the water on the greens after 28 seconds. Cooking for one or two? The OXO Little Salad and Herb Spinner dried greens just as well in the same test. Our own KEOUKE crank spinner is not a pick, and we explain why below.

The 7 best salad spinners compared

Rank	Spinner	Price today	Mechanism	Bowl / basket	Dishwasher	Warranty in writing	Size and weight
#1 · Our pick	OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner Best overall	$32.95	One-hand pump, brake, locking lid	6.22 qt / 4.95 qt	All parts top rack; Wirecutter hand-washes the lid top	OXO Better Guarantee, replace or refund	10.5 × 10.5 × 6 in · 2.5 lb
#2	OXO Good Grips Little Salad and Herb Spinner Best small spinner	$24.99−11%	One-hand pump, brake, locking lid	3.03 qt / 2.44 qt	All parts top rack	OXO Better Guarantee	8 × 8 × 7 in · 1.65 lb
#3	OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Salad Spinner Best for serving	$64.51−14%	One-hand pump, brake, locking lid	6.22 qt steel bowl	All parts top rack	OXO Better Guarantee	10.5 × 10.5 × 8 in · 3.9 lb
#4	Farberware Pro Pump Salad Spinner Best value pump	$29.99	One-hand pump, brake, locking lid	6.65 qt / 5.25 qt	Hand wash only	None documented	10.3 × 10.3 × 7.4 in · 3 lb
#5	Zyliss Easy Spin Salad Spinner, large Best pull-cord	$42.76−14%	Retractable pull-cord, brake, folding handle	4 to 6 servings, about 5.2 qt	Bowl and basket only; lid hand-wash	5 years	10.6 × 10.6 × 5.1 in · 2.8 lb
#6	Progressive Prepworks Collapsible Salad Spinner Best for small cabinets	$42.99	Top crank, collapsible silicone bowl	4 qt	Hand wash recommended	None documented	10.25 × 10.25 × 3 in collapsed · 2.1 lb
#7	Chef’n Salad Chopper and Spinner Best combo	$16.24	Pull-ring, two hands; chopping blade in lid	3 qt bowl	Bowl, basket and blade top rack; lid hand-wash	None documented	9.9 × 9.9 × 6.6 in · 2.9 lb

Product names link to the current Amazon listing. Prices are Amazon’s as of October 29, 2026 and refresh daily; the price shown on Amazon at the time of purchase applies. Capacities are the maker’s bowl and basket figures where both are published.

This is the KEOUKE Kitchen Team’s ranking of salad spinners. We sell one, and we are going to tell you the OXO is better. We put every spinner on the same sheet, mechanism, bowl and basket capacity, brake, storage lock, dishwasher rules, weight and warranty, then laid the measured drying results from Serious Eats, Good Housekeeping and Food Network side by side, something no ranking page currently does. No brand paid for placement.

How we ranked these spinners

A salad spinner has to do one thing measurably well: fling water off leaves so dressing clings and greens keep. Three test kitchens have put numbers on that. Serious Eats weighed five ounces of mixed greens before and after spinning in 14 models and reported the percentage of water left. Good Housekeeping spun standardized greens ten times per model and reported the percentage removed. Food Network weighed two cups of spring mix before and after a 20-second spin. We used all three, with their different methods labeled, rather than a single lab’s opinion.

Beyond drying, we weighted the things that decide whether a spinner survives five years in a cabinet: whether the mechanism works one-handed, whether the lid comes apart to dry, whether the basket is really as big as the bowl the label quotes, and whether anyone has documented the thing breaking. Price came last: today’s Amazon price, shown in the comparison table above and refreshed daily, against what ships in the box. Price decides the value picks and breaks ties between spinners that perform alike; it never lifts a spinner that performs badly.

How dry, measured

This is the table none of the ranking pages puts together. Methods differ, so read within a column, not across them.

Spinner	Serious Eats: water left after spin	Good Housekeeping: water removed	Food Network
OXO Good Grips 6.22 qt	3.38%, 28 seconds	tested, not scored	17% residual after about 20 seconds
OXO Little Salad and Herb	3.45%, 27 seconds	87% removed
OXO Stainless Steel	3.68%, 27 seconds
Chef’n Salad Chopper and Spinner	3.33%, 25 seconds
Zyliss Swift Dry, lever	4.05%, 45 seconds
Zyliss Easy Spin, pull-cord	13.59%, 35 seconds	88% removed
Farberware Pro Pump	10.41%, 30 seconds	83% removed
Cuisinart 3 qt crank	11.90%, 45 seconds
Prepworks Collapsible	18.84%, 55 seconds
Westmark crank	24.31%, 45 seconds
Dreamfarm Spina, in-sink			at least 85% removed in under 25 seconds

The pattern is the mechanism. Serious Eats put it plainly: “free-floating-style salad spinners… were more efficient and could spin faster than fixed rotational spinners, in which the basket must be manually spun with a knob.” Every pump and lever spinner left 3 to 4 percent of the water; every fixed crank left 12 to 24 percent. That single finding is why our own crank spinner is not a pick, and we come back to it below.

Pump, pull-cord, lever or crank?

Pump (OXO, Farberware, Brieftons): press down, the basket free-spins, press a brake to stop. One hand, the fastest spin per effort, and the lid usually separates for drying. America’s Test Kitchen found “plunger-style mechanisms easiest to use.” This is the mechanism five of six test kitchens crowned.

Pull-cord (Zyliss Easy Spin, Chef’n): yank a retractable cord like a lawnmower. Very fast spin, which is how the Zyliss hit 88 percent at Good Housekeeping, but two hands, and the cord housing is sealed. Wirecutter: “the cords are ultimately too fussy to use and, more importantly, hard to keep clean.” Food Network worried the Zyliss cord “will easily harbor mold as there’s no way to clean it.”

Lever (Zyliss Swift Dry): a pedal you press repeatedly. Reviewed’s number one, but Wirecutter saw “one of the teeth of the inner gears snapped off,” Epicurious’s lever “snapped in half after about two years,” and the current listing carries a weak rating. We left it out.

Fixed crank (Cuisinart, Cambom, Prepworks, KEOUKE): a knob turns the basket through gears. Two hands, the slowest spin, and the wettest greens in every lab that measured. The only crank America’s Test Kitchen ever liked, the Culina, is discontinued. Cranks survive because they are cheap and simple; Cuisinart’s 3-quart model is Amazon’s number two seller in the category despite leaving 12 percent of the water behind.

Electric (USB-charged spinners): untested by any lab. A pump already does the job in under 30 seconds.

Why the test kitchens disagree

They mostly do not, which is unusual. Five of six publications with visible picks name an OXO pump the best: America’s Test Kitchen (winner since 1999, five wins), Wirecutter (top pick since 2014), Serious Eats (the steel version), Food Network (12 tested) and Epicurious. Food & Wine adds a sixth OXO with the glass bowl. The two dissenters are Good Housekeeping and Bon Appetit, who prefer the Zyliss Easy Spin pull-cord for raw spinning power, and Reviewed, which likes the Zyliss lever.

Publication	Best	Also awarded	The line that decided it
America’s Test Kitchen	OXO Good Grips	OXO Little, Best Small	”most effective of our lineup at removing water”
Wirecutter	OXO Good Grips	OXO Steel for serving, OXO Little for small portions	Same water removed as the Zyliss lever “and due to the lower RPM, our berries didn’t bruise as badly”
Serious Eats	OXO Stainless Steel	OXO Good Grips budget, Chef’n smaller, OXO Glass splurge	Chef’n 3.33% water left, OXO plastic 3.38%
Food Network	OXO Good Grips	Farberware value, Prepworks collapsible, Dreamfarm in-sink	OXO “17 percent residual moisture” in about 20 seconds
Epicurious	OXO Good Grips	Farberware runner-up	Farberware pump “keeps the device going almost twice as long”
Good Housekeeping	Zyliss Easy Spin	Farberware value, OXO Little small	Zyliss “drawing out 88% of water”
Bon Appetit	Zyliss Easy Spin	OXO Steel, OXO Good Grips, OXO Little	”the quickest, driest spin”

Where they split is durability of the Zyliss mechanisms and the Farberware lid. Food Network, Good Housekeeping and Epicurious all reward the Farberware; America’s Test Kitchen rates it Not Recommended because the lid’s “multiple concentric layers of plastic” trap water you cannot get out.

The picks

1. OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner, 6.22 quart: Best overall

The most consistently endorsed kitchen tool we have ever put on a spec sheet. America’s Test Kitchen has named it the winner in five rounds of testing since 1999, Wirecutter has made it the top pick since 2014, Food Network chose it over eleven others, Epicurious calls it the best, and Serious Eats found it left 3.38 percent of the water on five ounces of greens after 28 seconds, essentially tied with the best result in its test. It is Amazon’s number one seller in the category.

The design is a one-hand pump inspired, as OXO tells it, by a child’s merry-go-round toy: press to spin, press the brake to stop, slide the lock so the lid sits flat in a cabinet. The 6.22-quart bowl doubles as a serving bowl and holds a 4.95-quart basket, which Wirecutter notes is the number that matters. Wirecutter staffers have used theirs since 2016 without a crack, and one owner in the r/BuyItForLife thread that ranks for this query has run “the big plastic Oxo for 17 years and still works great.”

Pros:

• Winner or top pick at five test kitchens, with measured drying at the top of the field.
• One-hand pump, brake, and a lid that locks flat and splits in two for drying.
• Decade-plus owner track record; OXO replaces defective parts under its guarantee.

Cons:

• Wirecutter hand-washes the top of the lid despite OXO’s all-parts claim.
• Big: 10.5 inches across and 6 inches tall, the most common complaint in owner threads.
• Food Network: “thinner plastic pieces may be prone to cracking.”

2. OXO Good Grips Little Salad and Herb Spinner: Best small spinner

The same pump in a 3.03-quart bowl with a 2.44-quart basket, and the compact pick at America’s Test Kitchen (“Best Small”), Wirecutter (“Best for small portions”) and Good Housekeeping (“Best Small,” 87 percent of water removed). Serious Eats measured it at 3.45 percent water left, within a whisker of its big sibling. Wirecutter says it fits about half a five-ounce carton of greens or one bunch of cilantro, which is a meal for two or a week of herbs.

Serious Eats dropped it from its picks after the lid’s inner plastic ring broke while washing romaine, the one durability report against it. Good Housekeeping notes the silicone grip discolors over time.

Pros:

• Dries as well as the full-size OXO in measured tests.
• Three test kitchens’ small-spinner pick; 8 inches across, fits a shelf.
• All parts top-rack dishwasher safe.

Cons:

• 2.44-quart basket means two batches for a family salad.
• Serious Eats broke a lid ring on romaine.
• Grip discolors.

3. OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Salad Spinner: Best for serving

Serious Eats’ overall winner and Wirecutter’s “Best for serving.” Same pump, brake and lock as the plastic model, but the bowl is brushed stainless steel, so the greens go from spin to table in the same vessel and the bowl will never yellow or crack. Serious Eats measured 3.68 percent water left after 27 seconds; America’s Test Kitchen found it removed slightly less water than the plastic version because of its removable spindle, and rates it Recommended rather than the winner.

You pay for the steel in weight, 3.9 pounds, and in price, roughly double the plastic spinner. An r/BuyItForLife owner puts the case for it in one line: “I have the stainless steel one, it works perfectly since the day I got it.”

Pros:

• Serious Eats’ best overall; the bowl serves at the table.
• Steel bowl will outlast any plastic one.
• Same one-hand pump and locking lid as the winner.

Cons:

• Heaviest spinner here at 3.9 pounds.
• Twice the price of the plastic OXO for equal drying.
• America’s Test Kitchen: removes a touch less water than the plastic version.

4. Farberware Pro Pump Salad Spinner, 6.6 quart: Best value pump

The pump spinner for people who want the OXO mechanism at a lower price, and the value pick at both Food Network and Good Housekeeping, where it removed 83 percent of the water. Epicurious made it runner-up because “a single pump keeps the device going almost twice as long” as the OXO, and Reviewed clocked it spinning for a good 90 seconds. The 6.65-quart bowl holds a 5.25-quart basket, slightly bigger than the OXO’s, with a brake and a pump lock.

The catch is the lid. America’s Test Kitchen rates it Not Recommended because the pump housing is “multiple concentric layers of plastic that were inseparable,” so water gets in and cannot be dried out, and every lab agrees it is hand-wash only. Serious Eats also measured it at 10.41 percent water left, well behind the OXO. Buy it for the long spin and the price, and store it lid-off to dry.

Pros:

• Longest free spin from a single pump in two labs’ testing.
• Bigger basket than the OXO; brake and lock included.
• Food Network and Good Housekeeping value pick.

Cons:

• Hand wash only; sealed lid layers trap water.
• America’s Test Kitchen Not Recommended.
• Left three times as much water as the OXO in Serious Eats’ test.

5. Zyliss Easy Spin Salad Spinner, large: Best pull-cord

If you want maximum spin speed and do not mind two hands, this is the pull-cord the labs like. Good Housekeeping named it Best Overall after it drew out 88 percent of the water, the highest figure in that lab’s test, and Bon Appetit’s test kitchen called it the “quickest, driest spin.” The 2025 redesign adds a retractable cord, a folding handle with a magnetic clip so the lid stores flat, an AquaVent basket, a pour spout, and a transparent bowl that doubles as a serving dish. Zyliss backs it with a five-year guarantee, the longest here.

Every pump-favoring lab dings the format. Wirecutter found pull-cords “too fussy to use” and hard to keep clean, Food Network fears mold in the sealed cord housing, and Serious Eats measured the earlier string version at 13.59 percent water left. An r/BuyItForLife owner is on their second one, the first having lasted “well over 10 years,” and another reports Zyliss sending a free replacement when the string broke.

Pros:

• Highest water removal in Good Housekeeping’s lab; Bon Appetit favorite.
• Five-year guarantee; folding handle and spout.
• Bowl and basket dishwasher safe.

Cons:

• Two-handed, and the cord housing cannot be opened for cleaning.
• Serious Eats’ string-version result was far behind the pumps.
• Lid is hand-wash only.

6. Progressive Prepworks Collapsible Salad Spinner, 4 quart: Best for small cabinets

The answer to the single most common complaint about salad spinners, which is where to keep one. The silicone bowl collapses to three inches tall, Food Network’s “Best Collapsible” pick, and pops back up to a 4-quart bowl with a non-skid ring that doubles as a serving dish. It is a top-crank spinner, so it is slower: Food Network found it “slower to dry greens” and Serious Eats measured 18.84 percent of the water left after 55 seconds. It also could not hold ten ounces of lettuce in that test. Buy it because it fits the drawer, not because it dries fastest.

Pros:

• Collapses to 3 inches; the only spinner here that fits a drawer.
• 4-quart bowl serves at the table.
• Food Network pick.

Cons:

• Crank mechanism leaves far more water than a pump.
• Capacity is smaller than the 4-quart label suggests.
• Hand wash recommended.

7. Chef’n Salad Chopper and Spinner: Best combo

The one chopper-spinner combination a test kitchen has measured, and it posted the driest result in Serious Eats’ entire 14-spinner test: 3.33 percent water left after 25 seconds, earning the “Best Smaller” pick. A pull-ring spins the 3-quart bowl, and a plastic blade set into the lid lets you chop lettuce in the bowl, rinse, spin and serve without another dish.

Serious Eats’ verdict on the blade is blunt: it is “fairly useless, especially with sturdier greens like romaine.” The lid is hand-wash only, the maker’s own site lists the spinner as sold out, and its Amazon listing is thinly reviewed, so treat availability as uncertain. Buy it for the spin, and think of the chopper as a bonus.

Pros:

• Driest measured result in the largest published test.
• Compact 3-quart bowl; bowl, basket and blade go in the dishwasher.
• Chops soft greens in the bowl.

Cons:

• Chopping blade struggles on romaine.
• Two-handed pull-ring; lid hand-wash only.
• Spotty availability and no published warranty.

The KEOUKE spinner, honestly

We make the KEOUKE Manual Salad Spinner, a 4.2-quart hand-crank model with a removable basket, lid and crank base that all go on the dishwasher’s top rack, in a shatter-resistant BPA-free bowl you can serve from. Those are its real advantages: a crank that comes fully apart is easier to dry than a sealed pump or cord housing, and 4.2 quarts is a sensible middle size.

Here is why it is not a pick. No independent lab has tested it, and it does not appear once in the 356 Reddit comments we read. More important, it is a fixed crank, and every lab that measured found fixed cranks leave three to seven times more water on the leaves than a free-spinning pump. It is also priced above the OXO Good Grips, which beats it on every documented axis. If you specifically want a crank spinner with fully separable parts, ours is a fair choice. If you want the driest salad for the money, buy the OXO. Our set that pairs the spinner with a chopping lid is currently out of stock.

Which salad spinner should you buy?

• Most kitchens: the OXO Good Grips 6.22-quart. Five labs cannot all be wrong.
• One or two people, or herbs: the OXO Little.
• You serve from the bowl: the OXO Stainless Steel.
• Tight budget, still want a pump: the Farberware Pro Pump, stored lid-off.
• You want raw spin speed and a long warranty: the Zyliss Easy Spin.
• The cabinet is full: the Prepworks Collapsible.
• Small kitchen, want to chop in the bowl: the Chef’n.

Is a salad spinner worth it?

Food Network’s threshold is the most useful: “If you eat salads more than twice a month, this is money well spent.” The physics are simple. Dressing is oil and vinegar, and water on a leaf keeps oil from clinging; America’s Test Kitchen says a spinner “must remove water thoroughly so that salad dressings can cling and sautés won’t splatter.” Water also shortens shelf life. Consumer Reports’ food-safety researcher puts it as “the drier the greens, the better when storing after washing.”

The skeptics have a point too, and it is about space, not performance. In the 356 Reddit comments we read across r/Cooking, r/salads, r/BuyItForLife and r/AskCulinary, “too big for my cabinet” came up in 25 comments across ten threads, more than any durability complaint, while 22 comments in 13 threads were owners reporting a spinner that has lasted a decade or more. The alternatives people use are a clean tea towel or pillowcase swung outside, or paper towels. Reviewed tested that last method and found lettuce “still not completely dry after 3 minutes” of towelling, while the OXO pulled two-thirds of a cup of water off one head in 30 seconds.

How to wash and store greens

1. Soak in a bowl, not the sink. Colorado State Extension recommends a bowl of cold water, since sinks harbor bacteria; America’s Test Kitchen’s method is to soak with the basket inside the spinner bowl, lift, drain, and repeat until the water runs clean.
2. Spin in batches. Overfilling a basket leaves the center wet. Stopping and restarting the spin, Serious Eats notes, helps fling water off faster.
3. Store in the spinner. Pour off the water, lay a dry paper towel under the basket, lid on, crisper drawer. Texas A&M AgriLife endorses the method for greens you will use soon; Serious Eats says washed and spun greens keep seven to ten days.
4. Skip rewashing bagged greens. The FDA says produce labeled pre-washed can be used as is, and rewashing risks contamination from your own kitchen.
5. Dry the lid open. Run the empty spinner once after washing, Epicurious’s trick, then leave it open so the mechanism dries.

For a second ranking built on the same test kitchens, the best salad spinner guide at cambom.org compares four models with a focus on compact kitchens.

How we sourced this ranking

• Serious Eats, The Best Salad Spinners: 14 spinners, greens weighed before and after, the percentage-water-left table used above.
• America’s Test Kitchen, Salad Spinners: winner OXO Good Grips, Best Small OXO Little, Not Recommended Farberware and Cuisinart, size guidance.
• Wirecutter, The Best Salad Spinners: OXO picks since 2014, pull-cord and crank verdicts, bowl-versus-basket capacity.
• Food Network, Best Salad Spinners and the OXO review: 12 tested, residual-moisture measurement, the twice-a-month threshold.
• Good Housekeeping, Best Salad Spinners: 37 spinners since 2008, percentage-removed figures.
• Epicurious, The Best Salad Spinners and Reviewed: Farberware spin duration, Zyliss failure reports.
• Manufacturer pages: OXO Good Grips and OXO Little for bowl and basket capacities, Zyliss Easy Spin for the guarantee and dishwasher terms, OXO’s guarantee.
• Food safety and storage: FDA on washing produce, Texas A&M AgriLife on storing greens, Colorado State Extension on salad greens.
• Owner reports: 356 comments and 42 posts from r/Cooking, r/salads, r/BuyItForLife, r/AskCulinary and r/KitchenPro via the Arctic Shift archive; specs and weights from each product’s Amazon listing data on September 22, 2026.