Pushing aside the milk and the half-full jar of pickles, you reach into the back of the fridge, looking for that bag of romaine you bought on your most recent grocery trip. You emerge, produce in hand, only to notice that it’s slimy. The lettuce has gone bad, forgotten behind so many leftovers.It happens to the best of us. Salad greens seem to last for only a few days before they more closely resemble a third-grade science project. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Enter the salad spinner.Washing greens won’t make them last longer, but getting them as dry as possible will. You can then keep them fresh in an airtight container, along with a damp paper towel, and since they’ll be ready to go, you may even use them up faster. (Plus, salad dressing sticks better to dry leaves.)A good salad spinner makes washing and drying easy. We’ve compared dozens of models and tested over 20 spinners since 2014, and the OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner has remained our top pick.Among all of the spinners we’ve tested, the OXO, with its pump spinner and a push brake, is the easiest to operate, and it dries both hardy greens and more-delicate herbs without bruising them. The crystal-clear plastic bowl is big enough to soak a 5-ounce container of spring greens, yet this model is still one of the most compact to store.