Silverware in the Dishwasher

[Ediacara]

Poll question: Silverware in the Dishwasher

How do you put it in?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. You need another choice.

Dishwasher? What dishwasher????

[Bake]

2. Knives, blade down

Forks and spoons, business end up.

Otherwise, (a) the forks and spoons don't get clean, and/or (b) you stab yourself unloading the knives.

OK, I'm anal retentive.

Bake

[soothsayer]

4. same arrangement in my dishwasher

Moving into a house with no dishwasher soon. Thinking of getting a little countertop model, but maybe I should just not be such a lazy wimp.

[MiltonLeBerle]

6. forks too, for me.

with the points down, they get plenty clean, and just like with the knives, you don't get stabbed unloading.

[CarlBallard]

3. Buisness end up

Otherwise you'll cut yourself on the knives.

[SOteric]

7. Dude, the 'business end' of a knife

is the sharp pointy one. You knew that, right? The business end of a hammer is the part you hit the nail with. The business end of a tire iron is the part you take the tire off with, etc...

[SOteric]

5. Business end up in a home dishwashing machine

Even the knives. And no, I've never cut myself. I always pull the basket of clean utensils out, put them on a clean dishtowel and check for spots and goobers before setting them in a tray in the drawer.

In a flight washer, it really doesn't matter. Really.

[flamingyouth]

8. Mix it

Some up, some down.

Gets cleanest that way.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. however they land?????

be creative fer Gods sake

[mitchum]

9. I only use the dishwasher as a drying rack...

Wash them by hand and then store them in the dishwasher (I've had it for a year and have never turned it on)