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While most dishwasher baskets are designed so that the handles are down, one can easily contaminate the utensils when grabbing them to put away after the wash cycle.
Ask the teenager with a runny nose from a bad cold to put the utensils away, and you will know what I mean
Why ask the teenager with a runny nose from a bad cold to put the utensils away? How does this teenager handle the cups and plates? I'll bet they pinch the top and bottom edges of the plates and the inner and outer edges of the cups.
If you're that concerned with germs from handling, keep a box of surgical gloves in the kitchen. I use them all the time in preparing foods. Especially in mashing out hamburger patties or mixing salads.
Handles up. When I (or anybody else) pull out the utensils to put back into the drawer, I don't want anybody's fingers touching the side I put into my mouth. That's gross.
LOL, page 4 on this. Just clicked on because it showed up in active forums on the right.
I have a dishwasher with the cutlery basket on the bottom, and went from handles down (keeps spoons from spooning) to handles up, as we bought some thin-handled cutlery that would get through the basket bottom, and keep the main water thingie at the bottom from spinning.
Why ask the teenager with a runny nose from a bad cold to put the utensils away? How does this teenager handle the cups and plates? I'll bet they pinch the top and bottom edges of the plates and the inner and outer edges of the cups.
If you're that concerned with germs from handling, keep a box of surgical gloves in the kitchen. I use them all the time in preparing foods. Especially in mashing out hamburger patties or mixing salads.
I thought the same thing. I don't want germs on the handles anymore than the other parts of the utensils. Washing hands prior to handling is all that's needed. Surgical gloves are necessary for the true germaphobes.
I dunno, I'd ask my dishwasher but she's getting loaded again.
I was about to say the only way to load utensils in the dishwasher was to put them in my pockets, but I don't think they'll get too clean there. lol But in the little basket on the dish drainer I put in the other sink, I put the knives point down. Utensils like spatulas, I lay flat in the dish drainer.
My mother got a laugh from one of her great granddaughters several years ago. The youngster looked around my parents older looking kitchen and asked why she doesn't have a dish washer. My mother told her she did have one. She'd had the same one for over 60 years and he was watching TV. lol
Me too. I only put dinner knives in the dishwasher, and I don't consider those particularly dangerous, so those go handles down. Steak knives, cooking knives, paring knives all get washed by hand.
me three Good knives have to be hand washed. They have to be treated with respect and caution.
I put handles down usually, but handles up wouldn't bother me either. I mix forks and spoons and all so they don't stick together and wash well.
Boyfriend's family puts them in handles down. I've always put them in handles up.
Thing about it is, you wouldn't ever put the knives handles down... Just seems odd to put some utensils up and down. Easier to remove them all quickly, and they get clean if all the handles are up. I dunno. Also, I always figured, the water shoots up primarily from the bottom (at least on all the dishwashers I've owned, lol @ that other dishwasher pic that has them laying down on their sides, coolest thing ever), which means that things facing the bottom would get the full force of the water and therefore get cleaner.
Also +1 to OP, A+ thread.
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