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Silverware pointing up vs down - which side actually gets them cleaner?
I've always loaded forks with the prongs up so they catch more water spray, but my roommate insists prongs down keeps them from nesting together and blocking the jets, and after three cycles of getting food stuck in the tines I'm starting to wonder if I'm wrong - what do you all do?
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abbyg141mo agoMost Upvoted
Flipping them prongs down changed my life honestly, no more scraping weird stuff off the forks after the cycle. Plus if you stab your hand grabbing a handful of silverware it hurts way less.
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murray.spencer1mo ago
And honestly, I don't know why it took me so long to try it. I used to just toss everything in prongs up and figure the dishwasher would handle it, but man, I was wrong. The gunk that builds up inside the spoon bowls and fork tines when they face up is just nasty. I can't tell you how many times I had to rewash stuff or scrub it by hand after a cycle. Now I just flip everything down without even thinking about it. It's one of those small changes that makes a huge difference, like you said. Plus the safety thing is real, nobody wants a surprise fork stab while unloading.
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ross.felix1mo ago
Yeah @abbyg14 is right about the hand-stabbing thing, that's a real risk. But the real move nobody talks about is alternating every other fork direction so they cross-clean each other.
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