Salad Spinner Lingonberry Cleaner

I wanted to share a quick and easy method that I use to sort leaves, dirt, and stems from my lingonberries (and it could be used for a variety of berries). I collected a few gallons of lingonberries this fall and didn’t really want to sort them by hand. I used a plastic insert from a salad spinner. It has slits that are lengthwise instead of holes like a colander. The slits catch the leaves and it is easy to shake the debris off the berries. Here is a similar one to what I used: