(EDIT) After having this salad spinner for over a year, my girlfriend and I have grown to F*****G HATE THIS THING WITH A F*****G PASSION!!!! It does it's main job, drying lettuce, poorly at best. But the action of pushing down the knob is so crappy and unappealling that it was a dread to take part in drying the lettuce. I have tossed it into the basement and replaced it with a Zyliss Easyspin spinner and the results are night and day. The action of spinning the Zyliss, which one realizes is THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF A SALAD SPINNER, is quite nice and gets the lettuce so much drier. I have no idea why the wirecutter rated this as their best pick. It really puts all of their reviews in a suspect light.

(INITIAL REVIEW)
I am just going to offer a counter point to all the 5 star reviews on here. Yes, it does it's job of getting the leaves dry, but in a clunky kind of way. Spinning is achieved by pushing down on a kind of giant knob on the top. This motion is fine the first push, but then is loud and bonky thereafter as you try and push enough to keep it going. Hard to describe with words, but not a very elegant process. Also, the underside of the top has a big protrusion that takes up a lot of space inside the basket, which is annoying. Seems well made, and gets the stuff dry, but probably wouldn't recommend.
(EDIT) After having this salad spinner for over a year, my girlfriend and I have grown to F*****G HATE THIS THING WITH A F*****G PASSION!!!! It does it's main job, drying lettuce, poorly at best. But the action of pushing down the knob is so crappy and unappealling that it was a dread to take part in drying the lettuce. I have tossed it into the basement and replaced it with a Zyliss Easyspin spinner and the results are night and day. The action of spinning the Zyliss, which one realizes is THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF A SALAD SPINNER, is quite nice and gets the lettuce so much drier. I have no idea why the wirecutter rated this as their best pick. It really puts all of their reviews in a suspect light. (INITIAL REVIEW)
I am just going to offer a counter point to all the 5 star reviews on here. Yes, it does it's job of getting the leaves dry, but in a clunky kind of way. Spinning is achieved by pushing down on a kind of giant knob on the top. This motion is fine the first push, but then is loud and bonky thereafter as you try and push enough to keep it going. Hard to describe with words, but not a very elegant process. Also, the underside of the top has a big protrusion that takes up a lot of space inside the basket, which is annoying. Seems well made, and gets the stuff dry, but probably wouldn't recommend.