This is my favorite new kitchen toy. It spins beautifully and smoothly. Some kind of magical engineering. I don't want to know how they did it. Makes salad greens amazing. On a side note, any quilters out there who use precuts like 5" or 10" squares - you can gently hand-wash your precuts and spin them dry in this thing and they'll be ready to go with a bit of pressing. Best cross-purposing ever!