Loading Dishwashers - Cutlery Handles UP or DOWN?

[Cruiser Elite]

I think the title says it all - which way and why?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

UP to save injuries if you drink as I do.

 

[aaronjames000]

I always go handles down so the knife blade or the tynes of the forks get a good hard wash.

 

[Pushka]

Sharp bits down.

 

[snabbu]

Don't have dishwasher.

 

[Steady]

I always go handles down so the knife blade or the tynes of the forks get a good hard wash.

+ 1 with the handles down

 

[Duffa]

Give me a minute and I'll ask her

 

[horseman]

However they land, with some luck they land in the dishwasher.

 

[Austman]

Well, here's what my dishwasher manual says (I know... who reads the manual? !):

CUTLERY BASKET
The cutlery should be arranged in an orderly manner inside the basket, with the handles pointing downwards.
Take care during loading to avoid injury from the knife blades.

 

[Mark3000]

Get a Miele and then you can lay them out nicely in the third tray on top

 

[robd]

Well, here's what my dishwasher manual says (I know... who reads the manual? !):

I read the manual - I put them in down, the kids however, pretty much chuck them in whichever way, always in the front section of the basket and sometimes with the end poking through the side of the basket.

 

[cove]

Mark3000 apparently our dishwasher is a Miele. I guessed it was and I was correct.
With other dishwashers we always had handles up for safety of the children when they were small.

 

[vetrade]

Handles down, especially those metal shashlik skewers which are so adept at poking through the bottom of the basket and jambing up the water jet thingy.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Get a Miele and then you can lay them out nicely in the third tray on top

Yes. And with handles towards the sides.

 

[RooFlyer]

My F&P drawer job specifically says blades down for knives.

 

[kermatu]

Handles down or to the side. Ease of placement/retrieval the key for me.

Nice question though.

 

[Pushka]

I had a friend who reached into the dishwasher and didn't see the carving fork sticking upwards.

I have a miele too, so it is a non issue now.

 

[serfty]

Knife blades up for cleanliness ... down for safety ...

 

[cove]

Miele starts out as a ridiculously overpriced dishwasher. But when you need a service the parts and labour are incredibly inexpensive. It probably ends up ok and ours has had a $29 part fail after several years and that was the cost we were charged for the call out. That third shelf at the top is a winner.

 

[k_sheep]

I have a Bosch with the third cutlery shelf as well. Love it to bits.