Grooves on kitchen worktop?

[Lynne1085]

Would love your views on whether grooves in the worktop are a good idea or not

Do you mean for a drainer?
we have them but put a soft absorbent pad over the top to stop breaking crockery!!

Nope. We've just had a kitchen done by a very good designer and they essentially told us that they were terrible and dirt traps

No from us.
But I love my sink that comes with a rack/shelf

my worktop has groves but above them I have a plastic dish drainer that directs the water into the sink. because that is bigger and works better (more of a slope) and you can put the whole thing in the dishwasher occasionally to keep it clean. So I wouldn't bother getting the groves in a future kitchen.

On the advice of the worktop provider we opted for grooves as glasses can slide off otherwise. They are shallow so easily wiped and not a dirt trap

Nope, no grooves no slope etc. just put a teatowel down to put drying items on.

No. Water can just sit in them. I have a double Belfast sink. Washed up dishes go in the second sink. I do have a dishwasher so it’s not much washing up. I had grooves before and disliked them @Lynne1085 so I’d avoid. Use the space for a much bigger sink.

I have grooves both sides of the sink and like them (quartz worktop). Without them it would be difficult to drain things properly. the water would run down the front of the cabinets.

Yes this.

Especially in a hard water area. The fewer grooves possible!

We have them, we thought we probably shouldn’t and DH was particularly anti. I quite like cleaning them tbh and if you clean them every so often (once a week?) it’s not an issue at all. We have them on both sides of the sink even! I think we decided we’d rather have that than a dish rack thing or pad thing.

The EXACT same here!!! I realised within a couple of days the error I’d made… fecking limescake magnets are those bloody grooves. Got the dish drainer to put over them also. If I had my time back and it would be a big fat no to the grooves.

I have them, and don’t find them hard to clean, but as I put almost everything in the dishwasher they aren’t really useful

I don't have them, or a drainer. We just whip out a cheap plastic tray to put washing up on. It lives on top of yhe dishwasher most of the time. Also avoids soggy tea towels underneath.

We've had them previously (once with iroko, once with granite) and wouldn't do so again. We're currently mid kitchen reno so without a dishwasher temporarily, but in the past everything except delicate glassware went in the dishwasher and we had a rack that drained into the sink for those.

Ours are great.

My dishwasher is built in so nothing on top of it, other than work surface. In a kitchen renovation, always have a double sink. No draining part and no grooves. Drain in one of the sinks - it becomes dual purpose.