Can we have a serious effing discussion?

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...about how silverware should be loaded into the rack in the dishwasher?  Because SO keeps doing it  wrong and now the world is going to end.  I need 40-50% of the people here to confirm for me that I'm just right and he's wrong.

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My knives go point down, everything else is eating side up

[LynnWriter]

I'm a recent converter to eating surface up.

[verycontrary247]

I said eating surface down so when you unload the dishwasher you aren't touching all up on the part of the spoon someone will put in their mouth, you know?

[psychmom]

eating side up for sure.

[puppyluv]

Mine are always handle up. I find it easier to load and unload them this way but they probably get clean either way.

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Special Snowflake: I don't give a shit as long as it makes it into the dishwasher. 

[janiejones]

knives down, everything else up.

[VeryViolet]

May 19, 2013 9:31:45 GMT -5 verycontrary247 said:

I said eating surface down so when you unload the dishwasher you aren't touching all up on the part of the spoon someone will put in their mouth, you know?

This is what DH believes too. However both of you are wrong. It is eating side up so the silverware gets clean. Except for knives so you don't hurt yourself.

Even though I know the right way I do it the wrong way because I don't want to make this the battle that makes me has to do the dishes lol.

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May 19, 2013 9:36:04 GMT -5 janiejones said:

knives down, everything else up.

Agreed

[Deleted]

Always up, but spoons will wash better if you do one up and one down in the same niche. No more nesting issues.

[rex]

Everything down. It's gross to touch the part people will put in their mouths.

Plus, my dishwasher has zero problem actually cleaning things.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

Eating side up and I handwash my kitchen and steak knives.

H does it wrong too. But he loads the whole dishwasher wrong.

[janiejones]

Our basket has a slotted roof for the utensils, we wouldn't be able to put them down.

And, there is handle space under the eating surface, so I grab the handle like 1/2" from the eating surface while unloading.

[TrickyBob]

Eating end up, except for sharp knives. They point down.

[moolarkey]

The instructions for my kitchenaid say to mix them, have some eating end up and some handle up

[underwaterrhymes]

May 19, 2013 9:37:59 GMT -5 @fogducker said:

May 19, 2013 9:36:04 GMT -5 janiejones said:

knives down, everything else up.

Agreed

This is how we roll too.

[Deleted]

Eating side up. I wash my hands before I empty the dishwasher, and try to only touch the handles as I'm emptying stuff, so I don't see the big deal. Particularly because even if I do touch the eating surfaces, it is just my husband and I using these utensils anyway.

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May 19, 2013 9:44:15 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

May 19, 2013 9:37:59 GMT -5 @fogducker said:

Agreed

This is how we roll too.

Haha. And I don't even have a dishwasher now. But when I did, that's how I loaded it.

[fluffaluff]

May 19, 2013 9:30:41 GMT -5 @randomcdn said:

My knives go point down, everything else is eating side up

This.

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A combination so you can fit more utensils in and they won't "spoon" together and not get washed in between.

[auntie]

Combination. I find it doesn't really matter with my dishwasher, so I don't give a rat's ass. The basket is seated in the bottom rack, so long as it isn't overloaded or DS leaves a knife coated in an inch of PB they all get clean.

I am maniacal about loading plates, pans and glassware so they face the sprayers. DS is pretty good in that department, but DH needs reminding. Regularly.

[Deleted]

On terms of cleanliness it doesn't matter with modern dishwashers.

So we put them down.

[wambam]

Eating side down

[dirtyred]

May 19, 2013 9:44:15 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

May 19, 2013 9:37:59 GMT -5 @fogducker said:

Agreed

This is how we roll too.

This is specifically what my dishwasher manual says.

[Yankees21]

Eating side down...I have no reason for doing it this way, but they get clean.

[luckyval]

Eating surface up except knives so you din't stab yourself when unloading them

[Deleted]

I wish this was someone else's problem in my house. Living single means I put them eating side up - the right way - every time.

[scorpion]

May 19, 2013 11:00:12 GMT -5 luckyval said:

Eating surface up except knives so you din't stab yourself when unloading them

Yep.  I once cut my leg on a knife, and since then, blades are always down.  And there is definitely a right way and a wrong way to load a dishwasher.  I get annoyed when H leaves his dishes in the sink (or on the counter, or table, etc.), but I get almost as annoyed when he does load them, because it's always wrong.

[Kit]

Eating side up, including butter knives. Kitchen/steak knives get hand washed.

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