Dishwasher - knives up or down?

Ordinary table knives are more likely to wash clean if you place them blade up. Same applies to forks and spoons: handles down.

Steak knives should go blade down, so you cannot cut yourself or fall on the blade.

Really good sharp kitchen knives, carving knives etc, should be washed up by hand, as the handles are usually damaged if you wash them in a dish-washer. As should wooden spoons, chopping boards and rolling-pins.

These are the rules followed in professional kitchens.

Having almost impaled my wrist on a knife pointed upwards all mine now point down, I’ve replaced one basket in my Miele dishwasher in the 19 years approx that I’ve had it, at a cost from espares of roughly £20 a small price to pay for not having to visit A & E

Our last dishwasher didn’t have a cutlery basket but a tray that sat at the top of the machine and each item of cutlery was placed in the individual slots whack prevented any knives causing damage

I've had one of those dishwashers with a rack rather than a basket for years, though I always used to stack knives and forks blade down. Not just safer if you fall but also safer to pick up if they are sharp.

Definitely any blades placed down in a cutlery basket. (Fork tines, too.) Absolutely a safety issue, IMO.

I’ve just bought a new basket for my dishwasher and it was only £6. My dishwasher is 9 years old and knives down every day had taken that long to break the original basket. I would say just put knives in the dishwasher whatever way feels right for you.

Our Bosch does too. I'd never go back to a basket. And I'd never put sharp knives in there either.

IKEA dishwashers have a flat tray at the top .

Looks like I'm going to have to follow your examples and put them in blade down - whilst training OH not to drop them from a height

any way up chez judge

my dishwasher has a pull out flat tray at the top so all cutlery lays on there. Have had baskets on other machines but would never go back.

Table knives handle up/blade down.
Decent chopping type knives are hand washed.

Marmight

Sharp knives down. All others up. Or just hand wash the sharpies?! 🤔

This.
Tho DP insists on stacking the dishwasher himself as apparently I do things all wrong with things at odd angles.So he has become the self appointed king of the dishwasher😁
#finebyme

Isn't there a tray at the top where you can just lie them flat? My daughter has one. I don't.

kittylester

Decent sharp knives shouldn't go in the dishwasher.

I keep telling the men in my house but they take no notice.

Failing this sharp pointed knives point down. Ordinary eating knives point up the same as spoons and forks.

Always down. I read an article once about a father who had left the dishwasher door down. His young son fell over it and was in paled on a knife. Similarly knitting needles always put away safely

All mine go in the dishwasher, blades down. I use a knife sharpener though, and they seem fine.

Ours go blades up, our only sharp tableware knives are the steak ones, they’re hand washed, carefully!

I never put sharp knives in the dishwasher. Actually some of them came with instructions not to put in the dishwasher as dishwashers can blunt them, which would make them dangerous to use. Table knives, on the other hand (stainless steel ones) I do put in the dishwasher, blade side down, not up. I’ve got some silver plated cutlery, too, which I occasionally use and that is always washed by hand.

Never put sharp knives in dishwasher.

If you do, and have a cutlery basket please put them blade down to prevent accidents.

I thought most newer models have a cutlery tray at the top?

Kittylester. Agree decent knives shouldn’t go in dishwasher. And wouldn’t put any sharp knife in

kittylester is correct. Most purveyors of knives do not recommend dishwashers.

sideways and individually, on a top tray- perfect.

All knives and forks sharp side down for safety. They do get rinsed before they go in though

I put the long knives on the side on the top shelf, again, with the handle facing me, because I do not want to handle the sharp part when removing them from the machine. It is much easier to grab the handle, and I know I am safe.

In the tray, sharp piece down so I only have to grab the handle.