The most important AIBU ever! The use of cutlery holders in dishwashers...

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They usually come with a plastic grid thing enabling you to keep forks from spoons and knives and stuff in different areas. I don't hold with all that silverware segregation. I just take off that cutlery rack and let everything roam free. They're such a pain to use. As I'm a large handle devotee I'd have to spend huge amounts of time jiggling and thrusting items through tiny holes. That's time I could spend roller-skating or at the discotheque. I take them cheap plastic grids off and my life is immeasurably better.
Nothing bad had happened to me because of it. Not even a baby boom of sporks due to intra-cutleral relations.

AIBU?

anarchist. Do you not know the dishwasher lockdown policy. Don't forget cutlery self-isolation.

I have never held onto that separationist nonsense, complete waste of time. YANBU Gavel!

You need a cutlery drawer!! Our new dishwasher came with a mystery top drawer. Took the DCs to point out it was for cutlery. It came with a basket too, but that has been banished to the cupboard-of-no-return in favour of the brilliant drawer

I took them off the second day of owning a dishwasher.

My Mother insists on it. It's painful to watch. Takes me 10 seconds to fill it. She takes 2 infinities each time. No exaggeration.

The dish washer we have at work ( I dont have one at home ) has the grill thingy so each bit of cutlery sits on its own looking all lonely but take that off and the base bit has another divider that splits it in to 4 sections , so all the forks can sit together but dont have to mix with the spoon riff-raffs

I don't use the grid thing but I do generally keep the cutlery segregated...one section each for knives, forks, spoons and teaspoons

Makes it very fast to put away.

They usually come with a plastic grid thing enabling you to keep forks from spoons and knives and stuff in different areas
No, the grid is there to support the cutlery in an upright position to ensure efficacy in cleaning, not to segregate knives/forks/spoons etc. The only segregation needed is silver from other metals. You are introducing ‘rules’ where none exist.

You anarchist

Putting the cutlery in willy nilly, is done by my dc specifically to wind them up

YANBU. I can't understand the point of them!

You need a drawer. It is so satisfying lining everything up the same way.

I have done this from the first day I got my dishwasher, ten years ago. No harm has ever befallen us, and all my cutlery is perfectly clean and hygienic! I'm with you, OP.

My sectiony things fold down into the basket.
I have one side up and one side down!

Should clarify, my cutlery bit is split into 4 sections. So I can separate knives from spoons should I wish to.

YANBU who has the time to sit there jiggling all the cutlery about?!?

I too am a convert to the wonders of the cutlery drawer.

My sister had one and I loved it so much when I bought my new dishwasher I specifically looked for one with a drawer. (It had a basket too but that has been relegated to the recycling)

No, the grid is there to support the cutlery in an upright position...

Are you accusing my forks of slouching?

...to ensure efficacy in cleaning

I rarely have unclean bits. And the odd time I do, they just go in again. Still a massive time saving.

It stops the spoons all snuggling up together and thus evading the soapy water!

We put the bit that goes in your mouth at the bottom of the basket, so the grid is redundant here.
Makes putting them away better as you can grab the handles.

Get this:

We don’t keep our clean cutlery separate - it’s all plonked upright in a utensil holder on the counter. It’s great; no faff whatsoever.

But how do you prevent your spoons from spooning and not getting properly clean, all nestled together like that??

Half of our basket is free form for knives and forks and the other half has the plastic grid holder for the spoons.

I hate unloading the cutlery.

My dishwasher says to put all cutlery in handle up to ensure the best wash. It come with a grid thing anyway, but it came straight off. Handle up is easier and more hygienic for loading and unloading

@Ninkanink I can’t decide if you are insane or brilliant

I clearly need to live a little, it never even occurred to me it was optional. Off to pop the plates in the washing machine and my pants in the microwave.

Cutlery drawers, you say? What marvel of engineering is this? Does the cutlery just lie there, or are there little dividers to stop mingling?

Our cutlery basket has holes in the bottom that the teaspoon handles fall through, so they have to go in upside down, trouble makers.