Cutlery Basket

[Hopkirk]

I am inspired by Barsel's dishwasher question.

Do you have 'rules' for how you load the dishwasher cutlery basket?
Do all your family follow the same policy, or us it a cause for discord?

[bednobs]

the dishwasher is a breeding ground for family discord. I do not have much spatial awareness, so am crap at loading. All the cupboards are high so im crap at unloading.
Therefore i do not do any loading or unloading :)
my contribution is ordering the tablets from amazon

[Cloverjo]

I’m the only one who puts anything in the dishwasher, so my way is the right way. (Husband just about knows where it is).
It’s basically just a jumble, but knives go point down.

[bhg481]

Everything except spoons are point down, spoons handle down.

[Arrods]

Ours is a cutlery tray, rather than a basket. When I load the d/w the cutlery is stacked so that the knives, forks etc are grouped together. You can get more in that way. When OH does it in her own haphazard way, I sigh inwardly and leave it at that.

[naomi24]

Handles down for all cutlery except sharp pointy knives.

[Hopkirk]

Ours has a lip with little holes to put a line of teaspoons in. Such a good idea. Pity none of my family agree.

[melv16]

The best way to blunt a sharp knife is to put it in the dish washer.
The Mrs always checks if I've loaded it. That goes for curtains, cushion plumping and bed making:-(

[Hopkirk]

I had to laugh in an early episode of 'Outnumbered', when the script writers included a family tension about how to load the dishwasher.

[dustypuss]

I always make sure that I put my socks and underpants in first followed by the knives and then the forks. ;-)

[Hopkirk]

That's the last time I come to dinner at your place!

[pat2604]

I'm not allowed to do it and if I try he changes everything. So now I don't bother and leave him to it. Same with the kitchen cupboards! His sheds and garage are a complete mess though. I refuse to go anywhere near.

[gness]

Only knives down and kids stay away. We lost a pupil some years ago when he fell onto the dishwasher with a knife pointing up.

[Hopkirk]

That's awful.

I don't like forks sticking up either.