When you're making a salad, it usually tastes better when your salad greens are drained of excess water. A salad spinner is convenient to have, but it's quite a bulky item. Especially if you live in a small apartment or if your kitchen storage areas are already crowded, you might have a hard time finding a place for it. You may feel that it's not worth going to the trouble of buying one.

But if you know this convenient lifehack, you can easily dry your salad greens with things you already have at home.

All you need is a large plastic bag and some kitchen paper.

Of course, before you dry, you need to wash. Place the torn lettuce leaves or other salad greens in a colander and rinse with water.

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For this lifehack, place two sheets of kitchen paper in a plastic bag and place your salad greens between them.

Inflate the bag, lightly tie the opening, and swing it around vigorously for 10 seconds.

Finally, remove your salad greens from the bag.

Although it may not drain as thoroughly as a salad spinner, the kitchen paper in this lifehack does a decent job of absorbing most of the water.

Also, if you want to keep lettuce crisp, tear it into bite-size pieces and coat it with a small amount of olive oil.

If you don't have a salad spinner, this lifehack provides a replacement using only a few things you have at home.

In addition, after using the plastic bag in this way, you can reuse it as a garbage bag, and the kitchen paper can be reused for cleaning around the sink.

Why not give it a try the next time you're making salad?