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section seems to be incomplete. It presents the development of the device up to 1979 and then... nothing. Were there no improvements to the design in the past 30 years? Has the popularity of the device grown or shrunk in that
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journal articles which could be of use for expanding this article. I'm not suggesting that you use all of them, but some of these journal articles indicate that the salad spinner has been used for other purposes, such as
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I'm concerned that the article is too US-centric. The early patents were made by
Frenchman, so why is there no mention of the French market? And what about non-Western cultures, do they use salad spinners?
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I encourage you to find a copyeditor to run through the article, as there are some obvious punctuation and phrasing issues throughout. Two examples:
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I don't think that this article is a comprehensive summary of the available literature. A quick Google
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Another unanswered question: Do top-level chefs actually use this device? If so, can you give some specific examples?
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