WHY would you put a steak knife in the dishwasher POINT UP?!

[TheGoryDamnReaperOfSouls]

Just WHY, DH???

Have just removed aforementioned steak knife from where it was embedded IN MY CALF after bastarding cat tripped me into the open dishwasher. There is blood everywhere and it hurts like buggery. So I’m off to get it stitched up and DH isn’t even answering his phone so I can tell him what a total ducking idiot he is!!!

Argh .

No reason for this other than I need to vent my rage!

He’s stupid.

Oh god that sounds awful. Hope you feel better soon.

Crazy. DP sometimes does this with kitchen knives, I’m fed up with being pricked. There are times I could cheerfully put one between his shoulder blades.

Unless it was a evil plan cooked up between your husband and cat, I have no answer to your question.

The fact he's not answering is suspicious though (where's the cat?).

[BTW hope it's not too bad of a cut.]

• an evil plan. The horror!!

This is the kind of utterly stupid thing my DH would do. He would also then be unavailable when it came to sorting out the resulting injury. I feel your pain. Hope you're ok soon.

Putting knives in point upwards isn't bright. But then nor is falling into the dishwasher...

I'd primarily blame the cat.

My husband did this, but cut his own hand open

I remember a news item years back about a young lad who died after a similar accident - the knife got the big vein in his leg. very dangerous thing to do.

Argh. Poor thing OP! Hope it heals ok.

A woman died when she fell onto a knife in the dishwasher.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/29/kirstyscott

I do think the cat's to blame though. It obviously wants you dead for some reason. Your DH was just an accomplice, and the cat was exploiting his ignorance in dishwasher safe loading practice.

Hope the leg heals quickly.

for you because that sounds utterly horrendous.

However I'd like to thank you for starting this thread as I'll shortly be sending it to my DH who insists on doing this very thing!!

Steak knives and other cutlery go in point up so that they don't destroy the cutlery basket.

All other knives get laid on the top rack - apart from decent ones that are only washed by hand.

Also, I don't have animals in the house.

Hope the cut heals up quick...

because if you put them in point down, the pint sticks down through the holes in the basket, destroys the basket, and sometimes, sticks down far enough to get in the way of the rotary arm.

Our cutlery basket has a handle, put knives in next to the handle, points don't come up higher than the handle, longer knives go on top shelf anyway.

He hasn't increased your life insurance recently has he?
(In league with the cat of course. Half the money in cash, half in Whiskas).

For a moment there I thought you were an anguished Richard Herring, remonstrating further on pointy side DOWN!!

Hope it doesn't need too many stitches OP...

oh wow op i hope you are OK!

Hope you don't have a long wait to have it stitched. I'm going to show this to the household later, we have a 12 week old puppy who loves to move forward as you step over her 

I hand wash all sharp knives, OH sometimes puts them in the dishwasher so annoying.

The cat is trying to kill you and frame DH.

Leave the blood everywhere, let your DH come home to a bloodsoaked kitchen and have an enormous bandage on your leg. Of course, you'll have strict instructions from the hospital that you have to do the bare minimum for at least a week to protect the stitches.

Cleaning up dried blood and a week of running around after you will surely help him remember what way up the steak knives go (AND the massive pointy carving fork - I got that in my palm, thanks DH).

I get strange looks for putting knives point down . DH is trained now tho

It's primarily due to bad design of most dishwashers, which have a basket in which the cutlery must be upright and which are made of plastic which is damaged by sharp knife blades.

The solution is to get a model which has a flat cutlery rack at the top , in addition to the usual two levels.

This sort of thing (never heard of this brand, just wanted a picture with the machine open)

www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/eqdwint15pl/electriq-eqdwint15pl-fully-integrated-dishwasher

We always put the knives blade down and the basket has never been damaged, even though our first dishwasher lasted about 13 years.

Errol our landlord has recently replaced our dishwasher for one like that. Now my pint glasses don't fit in the middle rack, and galf our plates don't fit in the bottom rack. Its a nuisance!