No kitchen should be without a salad spinner; you can dry rinsed salad greens in just seconds. But salad spinners can be builky and hard to store. That's why this collapsible spinner is so handy. Expanded it has a 5-qt. capacity, but when you collapse the inner basket and the outer bowl for storage, it's only 3" thick and 10.5" in diameter. The basket spins rapidly and flings off water by means of a pull cord that retracts into the lid. A brake button brings the inner basket to a rapid stop.