Salad Tools for Making Quick Salads

Having the right tools is crucial to reducing your kitchen time while preparing salads. These tools for making quick salads are fantastic!

 

I absolutely love salads.

They are easy to make and make me feel so satisfied without fuelling my body with lots of calories (of course, only if you don’t load your salad with fatty dressings, right?). But, sometimes the time we spend preparing it can be more than we expect because of all the chopping, dicing, and mincing of ingredients.

This time can be reduced if you have the right tools. So, I wrote this post to show you my favorite kitchen tools to help me save time preparing my salads. These salad tools for making quick salads will help you during your busy days!

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Salads Tools

1. Peeler Set

I think I don’t need to say that the first step to make a salad is to peel the veggies. So, these peelers are my favorite for that. This set contains three different types of stainless steel blades. One is called a swivel peeler. The other one is called a julienne peeler that easily creates julienne strips. The last one is called a serrated peeler, which has a sharp blade to easily peel waxy and slippery fruits and vegetables like peaches, tomatoes, and plums. I have to say this set is the best to help you peel your fruits and vegetables faster than you can imagine.

2. Chef’s Knife

Then, after peeling your veggies, you need to chop them, right? So, I love this chef’s knife for that. This is the one I use every single day in my kitchen, and I couldn’t be happier with it. In fact, I have used it and other Henckels knives for many years! It’s sharp, solid, and has a great hand feel. I can guarantee that there is nothing better than chopping your veggies with a sharp, accurate knife!!!

3. Bamboo Cutting Board

As I said before, to chop your veggies, you need a sharp knife, but you also need a nice and large cutting board. So, this bamboo is excellent for cutting/chopping fruits, vegetables, and meats as well. These boards are very easy to clean and durable, to last for years. I have had one of those for over 5 years, and it is still working great. The bamboo material is antimicrobial, which means it prevents bacterial growth and odors. I love using bamboo cutting boards because they’re eco-friendly, which helps to reduce environmental impact to live in a better world.

4. Scrape Shovel

When you’re done peeling and chopping your veggies, you’re going to need this scraping shovel to scoop and transfer your chopped food into a salad bowl. The first time I saw this, I thought it was a silly tool to have. But, I changed my mind completely when I was at my mother-in-law’s home, cooking with her. She took this out of the drawer, and immediately she transferred all the chopped veggies from the cutting board to a salad bowl, literally in seconds. It was unbelievable. I remember the day after I bought one, and since then, I use it every time I chop veggies and fruit. Greatest tool ever!!

5. Food Chopper: If you’re not a huge fan of chopping your vegetables with a sharp knife, you can always use this beautiful food chopper. It’s great because you don’t need power to use it. The only thing you need is your hand. It is so easy to store and to clean. You know the days that you are so busy that you don’t have time to peel, cut, and chop one single onion? This tool is perfect. You just throw everything inside the bowl, close the lid, and done!! How easy is that? This product has more than 5K reviews on Amazon, and more than 75% of the buyers gave it a 5-star rating. I highly recommend it!

6. Produce Saver

If you read Primavera Kitchen often, you know that I love meal-prepping my meals in order to make my life easier in the kitchen. We all have busy lives, and if we can wash, clean, trim, and chop our veggies and fruits ahead of time, is great, right? These containers are great to keep produce fresh up to 80% longer than store packaging. They also help keep moisture away from produce to reduce spoilage, and they’re dishwasher safe and BPA-free. I’m a huge fan of them. 

7. Salad Spinner

Believe it or not, I used to wash my greens in a bowl and then lay them down on a paper towel and dry them manually. Oh Gosh, I used to hate making green salads just because of this process!! I am not kidding. I thank whoever created this product. It is such a time saver! I also love a tool that has more than one utility. Why am I saying that? Because it’s not only for drying your leaves. This spinner also has a bowl that you can use to serve your salad!!

8. Salad Bowl

When you’re done with your veggies, it’s time to place them inside a salad bowl. This salad bowl is gorgeous, and I’m sure you will receive endless compliments. This beautiful glass bowl has an oak base that is easy to remove, making it easy to clean the bowl.  

9. Salad Tongs

This is a tool that will help you a lot, not only to serve your salad, but also to toss it really well. There is nothing worse than having a salad where parts of the leaves are not well-garnished. I love this one because it has a very elegant design (perfect for serving) and it is stainless steel (easy to remove all the grease from the salad dressing).

10. Wood Salad Servers

I also have these wood salad servers and I love them too. They’re gorgeous, made of high-quality acacia wood, which is totally eco-friendly and non-polluting. I also love that they don’t scratch ceramic, glass, and non-stick surfaces. Besides, the length of the tongs is perfect for any depth salad bowl.

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For Making Dressing

Dressings are so important to make any salad taste even better. If the dressing is not good, probably your salad won’t be as good as you expect. I love all kinds of dressings, but I prefer to skip the store-bought dressings and make my own vinaigrette dressing to avoid the high sodium and preservatives that come in the bottled options in stores. My favorite dressing is so easy to make and delicious. It’s made in just a few seconds thanks to my dressing tools 😉

1. Manual Citrus Press Juicer

First, one of the most popular ingredients to make a salad dressing is lemon. So, this tool is great for squeezing lemon juice. I love this one because it gets every last drop from big and small lemons, limes, and small oranges. Your hands don’t get strained from squeezing fruits manually. It’s easy to store in a utensil drawer and can be washed in the dishwasher.

3. Garlic Press

If the salad dressing doesn’t have garlic, it isn’t flavorful. So, I truly need a tool that helps me to crush my garlic cloves fast and doesn’t leave the strong garlic smell on my hands. This one is perfect, especially because it has a big garlic chamber (you can add two cloves inside), and the cleaner helps me clean out the garlic peels inside the chamber faster than other ones on the market.

3. Salad Dressing Shaker

Then, when you have all the ingredients ready to shake, you can always use any little jam jar you have on hand. But I love this one because it’s great to shake all the ingredients together, to serve, and also to store in the fridge. It blends and emulsifies your dressing quickly and quietly.

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