How do you load utensils in the dishwasher?

[Morning Glory]

From an article by Food & Wine:

• How to load the dishwasher is one of the most hotly contested household chores, especially when it comes to the debate over whether utensils should be placed with the handle pointing up or down.
• Proponents of placing handles up argue that it prevents you from touching the head of the utensil with dirty hands, while the opposing view states that the eating portion of utensils is more effectively cleaned when pointing upward.
• After consulting experts, their advice indicates that loading utensils with the handles down is the best decision — with the one exception of knives — and that users should focus on washing their hands thoroughly before unloading the dishwasher.

Read the full article here: The Dishwasher Debate That Divides Us: Experts Settle Whether Utensils Should Be Loaded Handle Up or Down

 

[badjak]

I don't need to worry about it as I don't own a dish washer

 

[Barriehie]

Handles up. They come out clean no matter how I load them and handles up is safer and faster.

 

[TastyReuben]

I’ve always done exactly as they recommend - heads up except for sharp knives.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Not a problem. We';ve got one, but I never use it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Also not a problem. But I was also reading it differently when you said utensils not cutlery because we've always lain utensils down on the shelf above the glasses shelf... that's where everything went, when I've lived in a house with one.

But again we don't have the water pressure to be able to use the ones we have and it certainly uses more water than we do.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I’ve always done exactly as they recommend - heads up except for sharp knives.

Me too, but I don't generally put sharp knives in the dishwasher. And I didn't do it as recommended, I did it because it just made sense to do it that way.

 

[TastyReuben]

Me too, but I don't generally put sharp knives in the dishwasher. And I didn't do it as recommended, I did it because it just made sense to do it that way.

I don’t put my good knives in the dishwasher, but I will put my cheap steak knives in there. I don’t really care what happens to those, they’re cheap enough to replace (and I haven’t had to yet).

 

[JAS_OH1]

I don’t put my good knives in the dishwasher, but I will put my cheap steak knives in there. I don’t really care what happens to those, they’re cheap enough to replace (and I haven’t had to yet).

Ah yes, if my steak knives were one piece I would do that. Mine weren't terribly expensive but I like them well enough and they work really, really well, so much better than others I have had in the past. So I really don't want to replace them (I have had them for over 20 years).