The Most Beautiful Salad Spinner I Ever Saw
Functional, magnificent, and close to perfection, divinity tapped me on the shoulder
I placed the leafy greens from the beets into the plastic cage-like enclosure. After a thorough rinse, the lid was set in place. Accustomed to an IKEA salad spinner which required a bit more effort to get the salad awhirl, I let the spinner mechanism fly.
Within a second, my salad had accelerated from zero to 60. Impressed as I was by the ease of spinning use, it was not until I looked down into the whirling-twirling and rotating body of the spinner that I could feel something I seldom feel: I was awestricken.
To be honest, I travel a lot and reside in some geographically amazing places. The white nights of St. Peterburg, Russia are Houdini-like in their magic. The solitude of the mountains of Austria, and “my” little lake there, cause me to catch my breath in awe more than once a day. Of late, due to the war in Ukraine and my refusal to reside in a society that accepts that war as normal, Portugal has tantalized my retinas.
And yet, in the kitchen of my Airbnb apartment, late one evening when just going through the daily motions of washing my salad, a man-made device as simple as a salad spinner reaches up and taps me on the shoulder: Hey, yo, it’s all around you. The brilliance, the magic, the power, the love, and the inspiration. It’s all around you. Just keep your eyes open and stay focused on the truth.
Gondol
Let me give credit where credit belongs. Called the “Vega Salad Spinner 4,40 It G25,” the work of practical art is made by the Turkish company Gondol Plastik located in Istanbul, Turkey. The company has a lot of very eye-catching items on its site and the salad spinner, in comparison to some of them, is really kind of simple.
When in motion, though, something truly beyond the realms of the common happens. The moment at hand slips into the ephemeral airiness of “hooo-leee-y-shit-wow-ness” and regardless of what kind of day you had up to the point, things kind of settle for just one or two inhales and exhales into a safe, sweet place.
The visual show the quietly rotating spinner so effortlessly puts on even kinds of makes…
