My trick with the salad shakers is to use ALL of the salad dressing and pour it on the top of your salad, put the cover on and shake it a few times and you are all set.  Only thing is you'll have to get some of the toppings off the cover, but otherwise seems to do a good job of getting the salad dressing all the way down to the bottom.  My favorite is the chicken salad, lots of chicken, yummy.  



Chris68