S/O Which Way Do You Stir...

[iamrachelle]

Which way do you load silverware in your dishwasher.

 

Handles up or handles down?

 

I load mine handles up...:D

[Truscifi]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

[m0mmaBuck]

I need an "other" I try to do half and half.... In my mind, that would mean the water would have a better chance of hitting everything since it would be more spread out (harder for the spoons and forks to nest against each other).

[Guest Katia]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

This. Exactly.

[RoughCollie]

I voted handles down, but I load knives with handles up.

[chepyl]

I voted handles down, but I load knives with handles up.

 

Same here.

[PinkInTheBlue]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree:

[SueinNC]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree: That's the way I do it too. :)

[Mabeline]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree:

[Chelle in MO]

I need an "other" I try to do half and half.... In my mind, that would mean the water would have a better chance of hitting everything since it would be more spread out (harder for the spoons and forks to nest against each other).

 

Me, too. The Michelles unite! :D

[HappyCrazyMama]

I voted handles down, but I load knives with handles up.

:iagree:

[Word Nerd]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree:

[Guest lahmeh]

Handles and blades down here too. :)

[In the Rain]

I usually do handles up. It kind of grosses me out to watch the clean silverware be unloaded and handled by the portion that goes in my mouth.

[edithcrawley]

I usually do handles up. It kind of grosses me out to watch the clean silverware be unloaded and handled by the portion that goes in my mouth.

 

 

:iagree:

[Chelle in MO]

I usually do handles up. It kind of grosses me out to watch the clean silverware be unloaded and handled by the portion that goes in my mouth.

 

Your silverware caddy must sit in the bottom rack. I would feel the same if ours did, but it's mounted in the door. We put the caddy of clean silverware on the counter right above the silverware drawer, then open the caddy and unload by the handles.

[iamrachelle]

I usually do handles up. It kind of grosses me out to watch the clean silverware be unloaded and handled by the portion that goes in my mouth.

 

:iagree: Yes, this is me too.

[Robin M]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

 

This!

[extendedforecast]

I need an "other" I try to do half and half.... In my mind, that would mean the water would have a better chance of hitting everything since it would be more spread out (harder for the spoons and forks to nest against each other).

 

Word for word, this would be my answer if you hadn't already posted. :tongue_smilie:

[Melissa in Australia]

handles down, just like the instructions for my dishwasher said. I hand-wash all sharp knives.

[knit247]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree:

[EmilyinND]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

:iagree:

[EmilyinND]

I don't know if this is true or not, but I read that the bacteria & whatever in the water drips down the silverware then settles, I didn't want that left on the part that goes in my mouth. (Although I use the sanitizing cycle on mine, so it probably doesn't matter anyway...:lol:) I have one that mounts on the door, so we unload them by the handles.

[DusksAngel]

I voted handles down, but I load knives with handles up.

This is what I do as well.

[Parrothead]

Handles up across the board because that is the way dh prefers it. On this one thing I do let him have his way since he is extremely bothered by it.

[Ellie]

Neither. Both. :)

 

I mix 'em all up, so the spoons don't nest with each other, and the forks don't next with each other. They don't always get clean (or dry, for that matter) if they're nesting.

[ereks mom]

I voted handles down, but I load knives with handles up.

 

:iagree:

[ashfern]

I need an "other" for both. Our dishwasher has the slots for silverware. So the knives have to go handle up and everything else is handle down. That's the only way it will fit.

[KidsHappen]

Handles up so that the part that needs the most washing is closets to the water sources and the knive blades are down. Plus I don't have to sort through and put some up and some down.

[PIE!]

I need an "other" I try to do half and half.... In my mind, that would mean the water would have a better chance of hitting everything since it would be more spread out (harder for the spoons and forks to nest against each other).

 

:iagree:

 

but knives are always handles up

[Kareni]

Handles down, except knives. They go handles up.

 

Same here.

 

Regards,

Kareni

[1GirlTwinBoys]

Handles down except for knives.

[Laura Corin]

Where's the 'other' button? We have a silverware rack at the top of our washer on which we lay our cutlery flat.

 

Laura

[Susan in TN]

Both - I can shove more in that way.