Abstract: A salad spinner dryer has a cylindrical drum into which the salad ingredients are placed that rotates about a horizontal axis at different rates and in different directions (e.g. clockwise and counterclockwise about the axis). Water thrown from the drum is collected. The different rates and directions of rotation are programmed from a control panel and assure that at some portion of the operating cycle of the dryer the salad ingredients tumble so as to separate the ingredients and avoid water trapping between ingredients adhered to each other by the water.