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Dishwasher that fits wine glasses

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Silverstag · 23/02/2025 17:46

My dishwasher has broken and I am looking for a replacement. They all seem to have cutlery trays now which limits the space on the rack underneath. I need to wash long stemmed wine/prosecco glasses and so few seem to fit these easily.
So if you have a dishwasher that you recommend and that you use for wine glasses please can you give me the make/model. Thanks!

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hopeishere · 23/02/2025 17:54

I just put them on the bottom tray / lowest bit.

SunnyViper · 23/02/2025 18:00

Mine is a NEFF and fits tall glasses on the top by dropping it down. Really tall glasses require the cutlery tray removing but it’s only my champagne flutes that need that.

sciaticafanatica · 23/02/2025 18:03

Most allow the shelf to drop.

WhenDoISleep · 23/02/2025 18:04

I have a Bosch Serie 4 (purchased last October) that fits wine glasses and some very large tumbler style glasses comfortably on the top rack. It has a cutlery basket, rather than a tray.

MichaelandKirk · 23/02/2025 18:07

We now wash our glasses by hand having put them in year after year and after a while they went permanently cloudy. Husband washes them and tbh they aren’t the most difficult item to wash and our glasses look fab.

I know - not for everyone but we had a bottle of champagne this weekend as we had friends round and they commented on the glasses.

NebulousDogwhistle · 23/02/2025 18:08

You know the middle/top tray can go up and down? As long as you're not washing massive plates and tall glasses at the same time, you're grand.

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Silverstag · 23/02/2025 18:19

I have another dishwasher (a Bosch) and even dropping the top rack a bit my wine glasses still don't fit, that's why I want to make sure they will in the new one. I much prefer the old style with cutlery basket!

I know I could wash them by hand but one of the reasons we have two dishwashers is that we put everything in them so don't really want to go backwards and hand wash them.

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RandomMess · 23/02/2025 18:20

Our dishwasher came with a basket and the tray so you could leave out the tray permanently and use the basket instead.

HotCrossBunplease · 23/02/2025 18:22

I hate trays. You can still buy basket ones. Ours is a Bosch.

FelixDoublyDelicious · 23/02/2025 18:23

Two dishwashers?

Surely if you have one you can do your own research to find a second one that fits the bill

🙄

BoilingHotand50something · 23/02/2025 18:34

Yeah ditto a Bosch without the cutlery tray. Can get loads of stuff in the top rack again including tall glasses.

Furball · 23/02/2025 18:37

I too have a bosch with a cutlery basket and yes wine glasses are a knack to get in.

I put them in like this - which seems to work well

babasaclover · 23/02/2025 18:40

I literally took my tallest flutes with me to Currys and tried it fitted before I bought. I don't wash anything by hand life is too short!

peudhrk · 23/02/2025 18:41

I'm mostly intrigued how often you are washing champagne flutes that it's part of your dishwasher requirements 😂 mine only come out at Christmas! (Don't worry the wine glasses are run ragged!)

If it's an old style dishwasher with cutlery tray that works, maybe look for second hand?

babasaclover · 23/02/2025 18:43

peudhrk · 23/02/2025 18:41

I'm mostly intrigued how often you are washing champagne flutes that it's part of your dishwasher requirements 😂 mine only come out at Christmas! (Don't worry the wine glasses are run ragged!)

If it's an old style dishwasher with cutlery tray that works, maybe look for second hand?

Almost daily for me 😂

BestImitationOfMyself · 23/02/2025 18:47

Buy smaller wine glasses/flutes for regular use. That's what I did, but then I've never been one for expensive glasses. At least if you get a cheap sturdy smaller set for own use then when you do have guests it's only occasionally you will need to hand wash the fancy ones. Which is probably better for them too.

BillieJ · 23/02/2025 18:47

Not an answer to your question, but we now have stemless wine glasses just because of the dishwasher problem. I know people are very particular about their glasses, but it's solved the problem for us.

BuddhaAtSea · 23/02/2025 18:51

I have a Bosch series 6. It has a cutlery tray, but the rack underneath drops and has some plastic ‘flaps’ for want of a better word that you flip open and that’s what holds the stem. You put the glasses at an angle.

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Silverstag · 23/02/2025 20:14

Thanks @Furball I will check that one out

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Silverstag · 23/02/2025 20:15

@babasaclover Ithat's a great idea!

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Silverstag · 23/02/2025 20:16

@BillieJ we have bought some of these which is fine for wine, but I like prosecco and gin in stemmed glasses.

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User7288339 · 23/02/2025 20:16

I bought glasses to fit my dishwasher!

TheOnlyThing · 23/02/2025 20:19

Miele, can do them in the bottom or slide the top tray so they have room in the middle shelf. We had a Bosch before and it was awful, so bad I replaced it before it died!

ChangingHistory · 23/02/2025 20:19

I feel your pain. If I have top on higher setting I can't fit wine glasses, if I have it on bottom setting the spinning water arm catches the plates.

In the end I went and bought some shorter stemmed glasses for daily use.