I can't believe it, I've just discovered the majority actually face their cutlery down in the dishwasher so they don't hurt themselves. What happened to cleaning them properly? What happened to being able to see which is which when you put them away?
food poisoning fatalities vastly outnumber fatalities from falling onto cutlery in dishwashers, so sharp bits up is better.
NT
I thought falling onto cutlery only happened in that really funny German mock safety video, but apparently it did happen once somewhere. Just once.
I can get more in with the big ends up. And I can see which ones they are when I unload it.
I always put the blunt end down so they don't fall through the basket.
Well mine doesnt wash efficiently....well that is when wife fills it. She makes every mistake in the book and will not change. Cups etc often placed correct way up so they just fill with water, cutlery all mixed up, items too tall that stop the spinner. I now empty it as found so cutlery is taken out and not sorted and I leave uncleaned items sitting on the worktop. A long way to go but she is slowly learning. Oh and I put sharp end up.
Time to give her the bums rush and replace her.
Yes, it was a toddler in the UK, and it was fatal.
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I could have written that. Wifey dumps stuff in there, and she knows I'm going to rearrange the whole thing later. She just gives me The Look :-)
The basket on ours has lots of little holes such that knives *have* to go blades down (the handles won't fit in the holes) and forks *have* to go tines up because only the handle fit in the holes. The knives always seem to come out clean anyway.
"Blanco" Go and gut yourself, fuckless.
Depends dunnit. Just because only one kid dies, doesn't mean that related irritations couldn't happen with some frequency. I put stuff in points down, because these glasses distort slightly and I don't want to poke myself on a sharp jobby as I load or unload - something that would happen but never appear in the statistics.
And no, the cutlery basket *has* to be last out. Why? Because this sodding Bosch DW has a cute trick. Unload the font row of stuff first (ie. the stuff nearest you) and the weight of the stuff at the back makes the bottom drawer tip up away from you. Potentially rattle rattle rattle crash crash crash.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that. Handles go through the bottom and jam the spinning spray arm.
You have a posh dishwasher where you have to take the trouble to put each piece of cutlery in individually. I'm glad mine doesn't. I just put a handful of 10 of any cutlery item into each section of the basket.
[giggle]
There's 2 then. The one I heard about was a woman. Still, not exactly something to worry about.
Change it immediately, one day you will forget, have to lean in to tidy up the mess, and fall eyeball first onto a fork.
Posh? It's a Beko. :-)
We did try without the (removable) tops of the cutlery basket but it didn't wash so well then so we've put them back.
Mine is a Beko too, 1-2 years old. It's got the same basket I've seen in everybody's dishwasher - about a foot long and 6 inches wide divided into 8 compartments. You shove about 10 bits of cutlery into each. Do you really have to place every individual piece of cutlery in one by one? You'd be quicker washing them by hand!
Odd, I've found cutlery is always clean (sharp end up), if anything is ever left dirty it's bowls with dried on food. But if I set it to the hottest wash and use 2 dishwasher tablets, and the maximum setting for rinse aid, it's rare anything comes out dirty. And quite often it's only used every 4 days, so everything is well dried on.
Not everybody's though. ;-)
Yes, but it's very quick to do (even when I do it).
Not if you include filling the bowl with water, washing, rinsing and drying. ;-)
However, having all the 'working ends' completely exposed and held apart guarantees a much better wash than potentially having them all bunched together.
Cheers, T i m
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