It goes, knives, forks, spoons, knives, forks, spoons....

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

It always has
Knives, forks, spoons..... always

AI therefore BU to be irritated beyond belief that when DH unloads the sodding dishwasher that he cannot get it right?He always puts them in random places in our cutlery tray, but never knives, forks, spoons

I suspect he does it like this so that I stop asking him to do it, but we have been together for 15 years!

Knives, forks, spoons or AIBU?!!

Indeed.

I would have to have a blurry patch over my face and an actor's voice or my mother would be most upset

displayuntilbestbefore
your mother needs help, that is appalling anarchy in her drawers

tortoiseonthehalfshell
am glad you are so keen on the state of the nation's cutlery. These things matter Don't all spoons just go in the spoon category, obviously not teaspoons, that would be sily, they pop in at the front.

LoveBeingAMummy
I would be loving it if in the press they said look at the things they have the time to talk about, that would open up this debate nationwide!!

Chant with me...

knives
forks
spoons

knives in the dishwasher go pointy end down, everythign else goes handle down. My cutlery drawer is right (knives, forks, spoons), but I don't keep my teaspoons there, they live in a handleless mug in the tea and coffee basket on the tea and coffee shelf in the kitchen (cutlery drawer is in the dining room in its own trolley).

Having typed that out, I look rather anal I think .

OMG - you have a trolley !!!!!!!

Congratulations on your organisation otherwise. A definite A grade. Would have been A* but for the teaspoon issue.

Forks spoons knives in our house

.....and I always separate them in the dishwasher too

I went to somebody's house once and they had their cutlery in a little wooden box thingy on the kitchen counter.

Perverts.

all well, it's an adapted trolley which used ot be in the study for the printer till I made DH build a shelf for that. But the teaspoons are because I need them in the kitchen for making tea and coffee, so it seemed logical ot put them with the tea and coffee stuff. Does having a Good Reason not let me keep my A* [pleading emoticon]?

'What the blinking heck is a jam spoon?'

From pages ago. No one has addressed this - am struggling to suppress evil images of crumbs in the jam...

WhoIsAsking
Perverts indeed, anything could have happened

hillbilly
Hillbilly don't be silly - you are wrong on two fronts, I may make you a badge. Wrong on the organisation and really wrong on the dishwasher status. Shame on you. End of.
I'll not hear another word.

Do you know, this thread has made me think.

I've always followed the dishwasher instructions to stack cutlery in a random fashion in the cutlery basket, but I'm thinking I might try separating them for washing and see how that goes.

Would make putting them away in the drawer a bit quicker...

Ponders...

my mum has jam spoons - they are wide and flat and shovel shaped and have fancy ends to the handles.

AH Polly, come into the light! It does indeed make it easier to unload the dishwasher AND it makes your brain NOT HURT from the wrongness of cutlery intermingling.

(Think a jam spoonPREVENTS crumbs in the jam actually shabby.

this kind of thing

We do knives, forks, spoons here too. And my DH does comply. However, because he's left-handed, he puts teaspoons in with the handle to the left instead of the right, which is not right!

Exactly Who - Tortoise was asking. I have made ignorance of the full and proper use of a jam spoon a crime in the shabby household.

ha, sorry shabby!

I wasn't clear. 'Twas the shock.

Crumbs in the marmite is even worse. I want a marmite spoon.

i liked the way that once i came out for spoons, forks and knives, no fewer than three people agreed with me!

i'm so happy!

oh, yes,a whole shelf for posh stuff! But the shelf is actually full of old stuff picked up from charity shops including a Corkette Cork Extractor and a Divisorex apple slicer - because they're in their original boxes! (and a stack of place mats inherited from my grandma) so not posh at all, but I can dream

Gasp! I hadn't even thought of that! Can you get them?

Yes shabby, it's called a clean knife.

Oh Whoisasking I would love one of those jam spoons! I could keep it in my bottom cutlery drawer with grapefruit spoons, cheese knives sporks, cake lifting things, and fish knives/forks.

Every thing else is in the top cutlery drawer.
Definately knife, fork, spoon order. I do wish there was a separate space for a pizza wheel and cork extractor.