Domestic appliance for conditiong food such as salads

A domestic appliance for conditioning food and especially food in the form of leaves such as salads, comprising a container fitted with a lid for carrying an actuating hand-crank on which is keyed a toothed ring, wherein said appliance comprises in combination a spin-drying unit composed of a removable drying basket driven in rotation by a lid-plate, complementary pivotal means being provided respectively at the center of the basket and at the center of the container, and a mixing unit which is at least partially removable, and wherein said appliance comprises means for providing a mechanical coupling between said units and the hand-crank, said coupling means comprising a countershaft having two pinions for driving either one of said two units, the mixing unit comprises a whisk mounted for rotation about its axis and carried by a whisk support which is in turn rotatably mounted on the lid of the appliance, said mechanical coupling means comprising a pinion keyed coaxially with the whisk and so arranged as to cooperate in planetary motion with a bevel pinion which is substantially coaxial with the appliance and fixed rotationally with respect to the lid in order to ensure both rotational motion of the whisk about its axis and rotational motion of said axis along a conical path, the hand-crank being located off-center with respect to the axis of the appliance, said hand-crank having a second toothed ring having a diameter which is different from the first, said toothed rings being so arranged as to engage with the pinions of the countershaft, said countershaft being substantially coaxial with the appliance, and the bevel pinion being permanently fixed on the lid of the appliance at least during normal operation.