Dishwasher ... upper cutlery tray

neilmcl

So how do they work when it comes to unloading? The big advantage I find with the basket is that I can take it to cutlery drawer to empty.

Debran

Looks like I may be on my own here but I would not have another dishwasher with a cutlery tray because I find inserting items into the slots fiddly.

I'm on my fourth dishwasher (Meile) since about 1970 and this last one is the only one which has had a cutlery tray.  For me, the cutlery basket was much simpler.

However, the cutlery tray does not make any difference to the height of what I can put in the crockery baskets below.

daivid

I have a 4year old bosch. 27cm dinner plates work with the tray above set up for pint glasses. If I raise the tray for baking trays to go underneath then it fits highball glasses but not tall pint glasses. Tall wine glasses or champagne flutes can also go in a holder on the bottom level, but this doesn't seem like an efficient use of space. As others I love the cutlery tray and find it very efficient to unload but then I did design the kitchen with the cutlery draw in easy reach of the dishwasher.

NeverTooLate

neilmcl said:

So how do they work when it comes to unloading? The big advantage I find with the basket is that I can take it to cutlery drawer to empty.

When you load it you put all the knives together, all the spoons together etc. Then when unloading you can just grab all the knife handles with one hand, all the fork handles with the other and put them away. So, even if your cutlery drawer isn't right next to the dishwasher it doesn't take many trips.

neilmcl

Debran said:

Looks like I may be on my own here but I would not have another dishwasher with a cutlery tray because I find inserting items into the slots fiddly.

I'm on my fourth dishwasher (Meile) since about 1970 and this last one is the only one which has had a cutlery tray.  For me, the cutlery basket was much simpler.

However, the cutlery tray does not make any difference to the height of what I can put in the crockery baskets below.

You're not on your own. I much prefer a basket for the reason I mentioned earlier.

neilmcl

NeverTooLate said:

neilmcl said:

So how do they work when it comes to unloading? The big advantage I find with the basket is that I can take it to cutlery drawer to empty.

When you load it you put all the knives together, all the spoons together etc. Then when unloading you can just grab all the knife handles with one hand, all the fork handles with the other and put them away. So, even if your cutlery drawer isn't right next to the dishwasher it doesn't take many trips.

Nah, that sounds too much like a faff to me. I don't want spend time "organising" my dirty cutlery.

maisie_cat

SuzieSue said:

To the people saying that they prefer a tray, how big are your dinner plates?  Some of ours are 30cm and they only fit on either  side and that is with a basket.  If we had a tray, I don't think they would fit.  We mainly use 27cm plates and they would probably fit, but I need to use a couple of the 30cm plates as my husband is disabled and finds it difficult to cut up food on a smaller plate.

We have 30cm plates but don't use them often, they don't fit so I wash by hand rather than muck about adjusting the trays. The plates we use daily are 23cm and they have plenty of room.

Emmia

neilmcl said:

NeverTooLate said:

neilmcl said:

So how do they work when it comes to unloading? The big advantage I find with the basket is that I can take it to cutlery drawer to empty.

When you load it you put all the knives together, all the spoons together etc. Then when unloading you can just grab all the knife handles with one hand, all the fork handles with the other and put them away. So, even if your cutlery drawer isn't right next to the dishwasher it doesn't take many trips.

Nah, that sounds too much like a faff to me. I don't want spend time "organising" my dirty cutlery.

You only organise at the point you put the cutlery in; knives in one section, spoons in another, teaspoons together, forks together... micro seconds when loading makes unloading a doddle 

-taff

pmartin86 said:

#ThingsIDidntKnowIWanted

This is supposed to be a moneysaving site, now i want to buy a new dishwasher because those things seem amazing!

My parents had one for years and I did without one for years. Then last year during the lockdown I just absolutely had completely enough of washing dishes. Our water is hard and it always left spots, glasses still looked dirty and I was just fed up of doing it, as well as the fact that I am rubbish at washing dishes, there was always a dirty spot somewhere on something even though I used to wash and then rinse separately.

I bought a dishwasher which is now called the magic cupboard, because you put in dirty things and clean things come out...Magic!

It is now in my top three of purchases for the house ever. The other two being the electric blanket and the woodburner, which is merrily burning away and keeping my feet toasty warm as I type.

I completely went overboard when we first had it and put all the glasses in there to wash after I put a few in to wash and they then made every other glass look so much dirtier in comparison. I still marvel at how sparkly they are now.

neilmcl

Emmia said:

neilmcl said:

NeverTooLate said:

neilmcl said:

So how do they work when it comes to unloading? The big advantage I find with the basket is that I can take it to cutlery drawer to empty.

When you load it you put all the knives together, all the spoons together etc. Then when unloading you can just grab all the knife handles with one hand, all the fork handles with the other and put them away. So, even if your cutlery drawer isn't right next to the dishwasher it doesn't take many trips.

Nah, that sounds too much like a faff to me. I don't want spend time "organising" my dirty cutlery.

You only organise at the point you put the cutlery in; knives in one section, spoons in another, teaspoons together, forks together... micro seconds when loading makes unloading a doddle 

As opposed to just dropping them in any old order into the basket, then taking the whole basket over to the cutlery drawer when clean.