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

[Mysterian]

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?

@HeartsTrumpDiamonds

I need pictures. I don't understand the problem or the solution..... (Full disclosure I now have a drawer - which I hated at first but am now ambivalent too. (If I lived on my own and could segregate the cutlery types I wouldn't mind it so much).)

Those of you who got a drawer and a basket - I envy you.....

Ffs. Now I want a drawer.

What I want is a dishwasher with 2 removable cutlery drawers. That way you can just take out the clean tray of cutlery, and put it in your kitchen drawer, and start using the second tray. .. Just call me Lucretia Dyson, inventor extraordinaire.

Here’s a picture for the uninitiated.. it slides above the top rack.

Handle up?? Are you mad???

I go half and half. I like the grid as I think it gets everything cleaner especially forks. Use the non grid side for chunkier cutlery

Some people just love to watch the world burn

@lborgia what a genius idea!! Write to Bosch immediately.

What is wrong with you- You are playing with fire!!! It will all go wrong and then you’ll be back on here saying ‘why didn’t I use the separator!’

They usually come with a plastic grid thing enabling you to keep forks from spoons and knives Every dishwasher I've owned has come with instructions not to segregate, to deliberately mix up, so ensure that spoons don't nestle into each other to avoid being washed.

Handles up is probably a good idea at the moment, not handling of the bits you eat from.

@Mumdiva99 - ooh, do you think so? I might need a percentage royalty

You can take the grid thing off??!!! Half of mine is grid which i don't like, so i have to stuff the cutlery in the other half, will be removing it first thing tomorrow

I also mix my cutlery, otherwise the big spoons get nestled it and spoon each other so they don't get washed properly!

Didn't know a cutlery draw existed, interesting.

@DressingGown handles up. Those are the words I was looking for. Thank you.
Yes. Sharp knives MUST go handle up so everything goes handle up here.

But, but, but for all of you 'handle upwards' people out there, how do you cope with unloading it?
I like to pick up all big spoons together, all table knives, etc as it makes emptying quicker.

Dishwasher drawer is my favourite thing. I was thrilled when I realised it lifts out too. So organised.

Fuck the little basket thing and its embarrassing cutlery regime.

I have a drawer. I tend to place cutlery of the same type together as it means that the spoons and forks sit efficiently, and more importantly, I can grab them en-masse and plonk them in the cutlery drawer directly next to the dishwasher.

It was one of my rare moments of genius, lucid thought

DH and nearly divorced over this. He is a boring twat who wants segregation. I am like your good self. For a long time the boring twat didn’t unload the fecking thing so my way prevailed. Then he did so he kept replacing the bastard bit of plastic. I nearly stabbed him one night with a bit of cutlery but decided at the last minute to suggest a compromise. So half our cutlery is running free and the other half stupidly contained. I swear divorce would be easier than this shit.

I've only ever had a dish washer with a cutlery drawer (Bosh), so I have no idea what you are all on about. Plastic grid thingy? Who's she?

I've taken the grid thing off as my cutlery is 'portly' and the handles can't fit through the slim holes. It doesn't stop them cleaning properly you just need to make sure spoon aren't 'spooning'.

The instructions for my dishwasher state categorically that all cutlery must be place in the holder with the handles down; it depends on the make of the dishwasher as to whether they should be placed up or down.

@lborgia You'll be able to order a spare tray from any random parts supplier - it'll cost more than you expect but probably worth it!

My dishwasher has a basket with eight 2" square slots. I anti-segregate - make sure as far as possible that there's only one knife, fork, spoon, teaspoon etc in each sub-basket, because otherwise two spoons/forks/knife blades will nest together and protect the gunk in between them from being cleaned.

They get segregated again in the cutlery drawer though.

Take the grid part off and just use the basket. In the time it takes to thread each cutlery in to the grid, you could wash each piece by hand, twice.

I just want a dishwasher 😁. Other than me. No room in Amazon box sized Kitchen though ☹️. Cutlery has to take its chance with every thing else. Although I suspect the teaspoons have eloped with the measuring spoons.

On behalf of cutlery everywhere, may I say thank you for removing those divisive, elitist divider thingies? My best friend is a fork. I happen to be a knife. These only chance we get for a natter is in the basket.

@SpoonBlender - unfortunately I've only recently bought a dishwasher, and it's got a basket. My other thought is that a tray, as it is currently made, would actually be way too big for the cutlery drawer.

I may be giving this way too much thought...

Ah! I thought you were showing the tray you had, soz.

I remember a decade or so ago there was a brief (and way too expensive) trend for dishwashers with two completely separate drawers, to use one as clean one as dirty storage.