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

60 replies

Mysterian · 18/03/2020 20:14

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.

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lborgia · 19/03/2020 02:09

so it’s already been tried? Of course, what was I thinking. Eeyore, I thought, perhaps you can bring a little helpful something to the world. There we are then. Bah, poohsticks...

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 19/03/2020 03:14

@SpoonBlender we actually had one of those. It was rubbish. I hated it.

sashh · 19/03/2020 04:00

I too rip the tops off. BTW some of the baskets can be broken into 2 si if you just have a few bits you don't need to use the entire basket.

I do have a pleas thought PLEASE PUT THE KNIVES WITH THE BLADE DOWN

My mum cut herself putting something in the dishwasher when there was a knife pointing up - a couple of stitches but no lasting harm.

But when I was stil working in cardiology we had a 2 year old come in, mum had been emptying the dish washer, he'd run in, tripped on the door and a knife had gone into his chest.

He was so lucky that nothing was damaged. He spent the day being sent from department to department for X-rays, ultrasound, echo etc etc because no one i the hospital could believe the knife missed liver, heart, kidney, lung etc - think about how small a 2 year old's torso is.

OK public announcement over.

Monty27 · 19/03/2020 04:15

@Catforaheadrest now I'm going to be searching for a cutlery drawer because they just cannot be serious with that stupid basket thing
If I'm not back soon the drawer has swallowed me

NotEverythingIsBlackandwhite · 19/03/2020 06:56

My new dishwasher (Siemans) has a top cutlery drawer and it is fantastic. All the knives are put in flat and side by side. Ditto forks, spoons etc. When emptying, I just grab the all the knives in one go to put them away. It is so time-saving. I just love it.
So much better than the cutlery holder in my old dishwasher.

hoxtonbabe · 20/03/2020 06:54

I’m looking for a new dishwasher and this top tray business sounds wonderful. Although I suspect it will be the £500 plus ones that has this feature 😔

Oblomov20 · 20/03/2020 07:01

I only have a basket. On the bottom shelf. Am I missing out by not having a tray?
What does it look like fully loaded. Pictures please.

SlipperyLizard · 20/03/2020 07:18

I hate the grid thing - none of my handles fit through. I do try to keep spoons separate from each other, otherwise mine have a tendency to, well, spoon each other and come out dirty!

StCharlotte · 20/03/2020 07:25

Don't forget cutlery self-isolation.

This made me laugh a lot!

isthismylifenow · 20/03/2020 08:06

I have a cutlery tray.

My cutlery tray was most definitely a contributor to my divorce.

Not in the way you are thinking though. We didn't disagree that much on if the spoons should be together, or if the spoons and forks could mingle somewhat.

No, no.

When one has a cutlery tray, and a husband who continued to come in from the pub (and other places) drunk and late, very late (every fucking night) they don't take too kindly to being told to put their empty plate and cutlery into the dishwasher, seeing as the whole kitchen had been cleaned and tidied by the time said person rolled in.

When you yank the door open and pull out the tray in a tantrum, the sharp knife may whizz out, do a pirouette move in the air, and then land point down into someones foot.

What happens thereafter is that you may have to go for surgery to reconnect the tendon and then have to spend 6 weeks in a wheelchair. After those 6 weeks you may find out that the tendon did not heal as should, and spend another 6 weeks in a wheelchair after the 2nd surgery.

12 weeks in a wheelchair means you cannot go the pub (and other places) as and when you please.

I still have my dishwasher, the cutlery tray and the knife. He did not want to take it in his 50% split.

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