Cutlery in the dishwasher

[MumofWombat]

I know it's a stupid thing to have a disagreement about but help me to clarify which of us - DH or myself, is the one being unreasonable!

When I load the dishwasher I put cutlery in 'prongs/blade down' in the rack, so that the handles poke up to make it easy to put away at the end.
DH puts them handles down as he reckons they get cleaner that way.

Seriously, we've had words more than once about this!
Who's right Mumsnet jury? Over to you...

In home machines they need to go handles down, sorry.

Handles down for me :-D

My sister does the other way and we have had words too :-)

Goodness, what happens if they don't? Zombie apocalypse?

If it matters then I would suggest that the dish washer isn't very good.

We do handles up for knives, prongs up for forks. They all look clean to me.

Handles down for cutlery, but sharp knives get put in handles up in our house simply because of one too many self-inflicted stabbing incidents when emptying the cutlery rack!!!!!

I dared, once, to put a small paring knife blade up in my mother's dishwasher. I got a whole lecture about a woman in Scotland who died in a freak impaling incident and how all knives had to go blade down, even butter ones.

I'm a rebel. I just stick the damn things in the basket.

Handles up for everything otherwise you have to hold the part you eat with in your hand, which is ok when I'm emptying it but not when ds does it with not such clean hands.

I always put knives blade down since I read about the woman that tripped and fell onto the cutlery holder. I realise the odds of that happening must be extremely slim, but it's in my brain now.

Handles down, my dishwasher manufacturer agrees because my cutlery basket has a little grid of plastic on the top that you have to poke the handles through
The other side of it is open for big things, and I do put sharp knives blade down for safety.

I'm sure my dishwasher manual says handles down, but any sharp things that won't fit in the sharp thing rack go in the cutlery basket business-end down.

Handles down except sharp blades, which you handles up.

My FIL drives me nuts insisting I put handles down. Tells me how to load my own dishwasher in a tone that suggests I am a five year old. So that's handles up for me forever now

As long as they're not all crammed in together I can't see how it makes any difference at all.

Handles up, there have been a few instances where people died falling on a knife blade up in a dishwasher.

Yy sharp things go blade down.

Handles up in this house for no other reason than it's easier than trying to put dirty cutlery in handles down.

Handles down except for sharp knives.

Sharp knives should be hand washed as dishwashers dull the blades.

Handles up for me. I'd always prefer to hold grubby and clean cutlery by the handle.

I get around the whole knotty problem by having a dishwasher without a cutlery basket, it has a third pull out tray at the top for cutlery.

I put forks up as sometimes they slip through the basket and end up being bent by the spinner thing

I also put spoons up as they seem to wash better that way

But knives - blade down

I am handles up but dh is handles down, we had a huge argument over sharp knives so the now go handles up... This happened about the time we got a dishwasher

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2943930.stm

Which helped my argument.

Handles down. If the business end is all lumped in together down in the basket, it's less likely to get properly clean.

I'm used to the blades down as my daughter's bf is a heamophiliac and has to watch out for accidental cut situations.

Handles up for reduced stabbing potential.
Bonus of not having to hold the clean eating end to get them out.
Big spoons and beaters from the hand mixer are handles down tho, otherwise they don't fit.

Handles down for cutlery but sharp knives go in on their side on the top rack because of that news article! That lady was a vaguely known by a family member so I always remember it.