An important question for my fellow posters.

[smwhorn]

Here goes.

When you load the silverware in the dishwasher, do you load the handles to the forks/knives/spoons "up" or "down?"

Just curious.

 

[Handler XIII]

knives up, everything else down is how i currently roll

 

[TexonLongIsland]

you'se gotta mix it up.


At least that's what my housekeeper says

 

[washparkhorn]

Sideways - my dishwasher has a third level for silverware. It's a tray and it eliminates the great question you pose.

In the past - I was a firm believer in everything up (so the last noxious drip of whatever was last rinsed settled on the handle rather than the business end of the utensil.

 

[AnotherUTFan]

According to my wife: Spoons up, everything else down.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me, life's easier if I roll with it.

 

[YChang]

everything up except knifes

 

[UT Spring Branch]

everything up - I don't put sharp knives in there - I hand wash them

 

[ADMIRALSTOCKDALE]

it seems intuitive to have the sharp stuff to where i can't inadvertently stab myself. down.

 

[NativeTXchic]

I just grab em and drop em in. Knives do go blade down though. Don't wanna be stabbed.

 

[accuratehorn]

Everything goes up, but I don't know if it really matters. We do unload the knives first, carefully. The larger knives get hand washed or placed in the upper basket in a reclining position.

 

[jimmyjazz]

I used to go "everything down", but my wife insists that it needs to be "everything up". I cannot tell you how many times I have impaled myself on a steak knife.

 

[flaco]

Mixed. I don't want my spoons spooning.

 

[Texanne]

Mixed.

And Puddle, you can rest easy, because at My house, I always wash my hands before unloading the dishwasher.

 

[HornStar]

I think P/C put this issue to rest.

What about glasses in the cabinet? Do you put them right-side up or upside down on the shelves?

 

[westptx]

1st question...handle side up. The dishwasher at my apartment has these dumb little places for you to put one freakin utensil in AND you have to put it in handle-side down (I just take those things off and go on my merry way). My roomate opts for handle-side down...sick, I don't want to touch his leftovers.

2nd question...glasses up-side down. I don't want dust and any other airborne material getting in my clean glasses.

 

[flaco]

Bacteria has a hard time living on dry surfaces. I think will live through it.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

If you read the "proper loading" instructions that are in most owner's manuals, they tell you to mix it up to avoid "stacking" issues.

For safety alone, I put steak knives and other sharps and points down. This includes forks. Dinner knives go handle down. All spoons, spatulas and specialty tools are alternated per space available.

 

[jimmyjazz]

My wife is obsessed with the apparently horrifying thought that a steak knife point might protrude low enough below the bottom drawer that she won't be able to slide it open. Using her keen sense of femalian deductive reasoning, she has extended this to all utensils. I gave up long ago.

 

[lostman]

Having impaled myself on forks and sharp knives in the past - point down on those. Others - mixed. Large knives, as others noted either hand washed or on top shelf. The front of the silverware container flips down when you unload dishes so you don't have to grab them by the eating surfaces.

Glasses in the cabinet - rim down, don't want any little critters falling into glasses.

We get an influx of silverfish once in a while and they seem to end up in glasses that are not used often. Coffee mugs are hanging on hooks under the cabinet.

 

[accuratehorn]

When unloading the silverware from the dishwasher, which all point up, since some of them are knives, I grab them an inch or two below the part that are used to hold food and remove them, and since sometimes they are still damp, dry them as they are put into the drawer, thus avoiding, to this point, any fatalities from use thereof during mealtime.

 

[01 grad]

Interesting question. I'll have to ask my wife which way she loads them.

 

[smwhorn]

Well my wife says that I can do two things very well (and only two, apparently). One is wash dishes. The other is rake the infield before my son's baseball games.

I put the steak knives blade down. Everything else is up. If you do it any other way, you are smelly.

 

[washparkhorn]

I understand the steak knives going down, but isn't it easier to put them away if the others are pointed up?

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

My dishwasher is named Virginia

 

[Texas007]

I put everything down, and i do not mix the forks, knives and spoons. They have to be placed in seperate containers. this makes putting them away much easier. some people just thrown **** wherever and sort it when they put it away.

 

[Statalyzer]

Unless someone blind is going to have to get the silverware out of the drawer and has to go by which part of the container it's in, there's nothing wrong with mixing them up. Knives and forks go pointiness-down, spoon direction is irrelevant, and separating them is a waste of time.

 

[Frogstyle]

I donit know that I have a dishwasher. I should probably pay more attention to what happens around here.

 

[whickums]

All of mine go handle up. And for the love of god PLEASE keep them separated by type (all knives with knives, forks with forks, etc).

 

[UTEE]

What P/C said, but nicer.