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!

Apart from tall glasses, mine is fine (a neff, but looks similar configuration to the one I linked to). And given that we have a standard dachshund- selectively bred as the perfect trip hazard, I think - I'll take handwashing a few glasses over risk of impalation!a

We put pointed knives (vegetable ones as we don't own steak knives any more) pointing up in the basket because otherwise the points go through the holes and get bent or broken when the rack is pulled out, would also break the basket.

There is a knife rack at the top which is used for the chopping knives and the vegetable ones go in there too if there is room.

Cutlery basket has a foldy over bit with holes for individual cutlery so they have to go in to fit the holes or fold it back and lump them all in by the handful.

A while ago a boy died after falling on a fork (tines up) in a dishwasher so may be better to wash up by hand (and cut yourself in the sink instead).

Friend's daughter fell onto a knife in the dishwasher and had hundreds of stitches and is scarred for life.

Points down, and only crazies who glee with anticipation at a slit wrist put them points up.
Stainless steel interior and grey baskets, it’s easy to not spot the upright point as you get ready to unload it.

We always put all knives point side down, and never once have they gone through the holes. As to the pp who asked about why you had the door open to fall into, are you serious? How do you load a dishwasher - magic it through the closed door?

I occasionally strop at DP when forks are left tine-upwards in the drying rack for me to fairly harmlessly stab myself on, so I'm afraid that this would probably be a divorce-worthy event for me. Knives should be hand washed, dried and instantly put back in the block.

We don't have a dishwasher, but I can't imagine ever putting sharp knives pointing up!
Hope you are doing OK Reaper!

My sister told me years ago to always put knives in point down as she had read in the news a story of a woman who impaled herself on a knife standing up in her dishwasher - I just Googled it and it is actually (and very sadly) a true story.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-182547/Woman-dies-freak-dishwasher-accident.html

I can’t believe their are actually people who do this on purpose!

Oh god some of these stories!! I only needed four stitches as the cut was narrow but deep (knife literally stabbed straight in) - I got a fair bit of from the nurse at A&E when I explained how I’d done it though . The cat is still sulking because I shouted at him earlier. And DH is still wisely at work so has avoided my wrath thus far.

And for the pp who asked I had the dishwasher open because I was about to unload it!! Never breaking my resolution not to do housework while working from home again!

We always put point down and yes over time it does make a hole in the basket but we just eventually replace it...They cost about a tenner

Getting my dishwasher removed at the moment and not replaced as don't use it enough, but when I did, I did knifes pointing up and put the basket on the counter like zzzzz, made it easier for me to put the bits away.

Don’t dishwashers blunt sharp knives? (I may have made that up.)

I have one of these DHs at home. The points go up because otherwise “how will they get washed”? The scissors are also nestled into the basket points up AND OPEN!

Oh I feel your pain!

I passed out at work once in a nursery kitchen- alone and with the dishwasher open. I twatted my head on the extractor fan and landed on the dishwasher with the bottom drawer pulled open. Came to with the help of a colleague who came in to use the kettle- face planted on the cutlery rack.

Luckily I stack correctly (points down! And it was nursery cutlery too but still, I used knives dontcha know!) but I have used this as a cautionary tale ever since! Points down!!

Why was the dishwasher open? I just shove things in as they fall and find the blade is often still dirty when point down.

@TheWiseWomansFear because I was in the process of filling it!?

You shouldn’t ever put knives point down as it blunts them. Lie them on their side in the top.

Glad you're OK op. Laughing at the 'why was the dishwasher open?!' people. I'd love to know how they manage to load and unload their dishwashers without opening the door.

I have recently changed from knives down to knives up after they destroyed out cutlery basket but I may have a rethink now, especially as I have two cats who delight in attempting to trip me up.

I am obsesive about knives being blade down.

My mother cut her wrist on one when I was quite young.

Then when I worked in the NHS we had a toddler come in, he had been running around the kitchen whils mum was doing the dishwasher, tripped and fell. A knife went into his abdomen.

He was actually fine, he was X-rayed, scanned, echoed, tested, MRI'd everything. How a knife missed every organ in the torso of a two year old is amazing.

It could easily have been so different.

I think that when deciding which was up to put sharp knives, you need to decide which you most value- a plastic cutlery holder or your skin.

The instructions on my dishwasher say that all stabby implements are to be placed sharp bit facing down in the basket but do the dc & dh do it? No of course not because that would be sensible.

@HotInWinter did he leave you the instruction booklet? You can usually adjust the height of the various sections. If not Google your model online.

I never put any sharp knives in the dishwasher as the cleaning agents dull the blades. That and we'd run out of fruit knives by lunch time.