Dishwasher ... upper cutlery tray

Belenus

MX5huggy said:

It’s a tray not a basket I think the OP means https://youtu.be/rKGhfeLGGI0

I think it’s hassle to lay out all the cutlery. Some say it gets it cleaner, but I don’t have any issue with a Standard basket. Height wise your plates will still fit and you get more in the bottom rack.

That makes more sense although I have never seen one before. Our last dishwasher purchase was over 20 years ago.

Our current dishwasher is integrated and came with the house we purchased ten years ago. It is probably 16 years old as that is the age of the house.

We have always found a lower basket to be fine for cutlery although we do rinse everything that goes in the dishwasher as there are only the two of us so we only run it every three or four days. That avoids rotting food smells building up.

Any implement longer than a standard knife and fork is laid down in the upper basket.

Emmia

We switched from a basket to a tray when we got a new Bosch dishwasher last year - the tray is quicker to unload and so much more space efficient.

mug2007

We have a Bosch ecosilence with the upper cutlery drawer and we much prefer it to the basket, only minor problem we have is the spoons end up full with water when you accidentally put them face up.  I like the way you can easily group the forks, group the spoons and the knives in a neat arrangement, making it super quick to unload.

oniongirl

I've actually just gone from a slimline with cutlery tray at the top to a slimline with cutlery basket at the bottom.

I prefer the bottom basket. 

Our dinner plates must be oversized, as we can't fit them at the bottom and pint glasses in the top in the cutlery tray machine. Either we.move the top drawer lower and it interferes with the plates, or we move it higher to avoid the plates and we can no longer fit pint glasses in.

If we didn't use pint glasses it would be ok, but we pretty much drink from pints solely. And the occasional mug for a morning coffee.

I wonder if it'd be ok if we had a "normal" width dishwasher as we could put the pint glasses at the bottom.

Edit: soft drinks and water in pint glasses  not constant beer drinking.

nyck

oniongirl said:

I've actually just gone from a slimline with cutlery tray at the top to a slimline with cutlery basket at the bottom.

I prefer the bottom basket. 

Our dinner plates must be oversized, as we can't fit them at the bottom and pint glasses in the top in the cutlery tray machine. Either we.move the top drawer lower and it interferes with the plates, or we move it higher to avoid the plates and we can no longer fit pint glasses in.

If we didn't use pint glasses it would be ok, but we pretty much drink from pints solely. And the occasional mug for a morning coffee.

I wonder if it'd be ok if we had a "normal" width dishwasher as we could put the pint glasses at the bottom.

Edit: soft drinks and water in pint glasses  not constant beer drinking.

This is exactly what im concerned about 

Spank

Have a standard size Bosch with the cutlery tray at the top. Everything fits in the machine, it's easy to load/unload & any plastic  lids are trapped on there so they can't escape.

-taff

I just put knives in one opening, spoons in another etc and that;s also a doddle to unload. Just grab the handful of things on one opening and chuck them in the drawer.

Rosa_Damascena

People seem keen on Bosch? Miele is too expensive for my usage, I was looking at Bosch / Neff. Is there anything between them?

getmore4less

k3lvc said:

I went through exactly the same in mid '20 to replace a on old Siemens one - we found Bosch/Siemens at c.£600, a Miele one at a higher price and a John Lewis own brand.

Against my better judgement of dealing with Currys eventually went for a Grundig from them for £329 with 5yrs warranty and can't fault it 

WE have a Grundig dryer and very happy when we needed the dishwasher ended up with Beko(they make the  Grundig)  can't remember why we did not get the Grundig at the time might have been no offers. 

ended up with this from AO £290 July 19  (£309 today)
https://www.beko.co.uk/a-dishwasher-aquaintense-dfn28r22-black-white

folding tines also very handy.

Hasbeen

Rosa_Damascena said:

People seem keen on Bosch? Miele is too expensive for my usage, I was looking at Bosch / Neff. Is there anything between them?

Really nothing between them. Bosch scores one point higher in which.

We had a Neff for 20+ years and just bought a Bosch SMV68MD01G recommended by Which, with cutlery tray.

Fantastic after having the old style cutlery basket.

Bought from Currys as they had in stock at time £699.99 less Currys code of 10% =£629.99 less Blue Light discount of 5.75% = £593.76 less £30 off for rescheduled delivery. Total £563.76. Hopefully will get 7% from TCB.

Very pleased with it.