“and then I do try to alternate, like, top the the utensils up and down just so, like, they have the best chance of getting clean.”

“I find that putting some of the silverware facing up and some down works best for cleaning those”

“I guess the silverware being up, I feel like it does clean it better, which isn't something I always did before.”

“I would say the knives going in the dishwasher is probably priority one but it's also a priority for me too that I don't want silverware up. I'd rather have all the silverware down.”

“I always put utensils down. I don't like to touch the tops or the eating parts of the utensils when you take it out when it's clean, so I always put everything down either for safety or for cleanliness.”

“As far as silverware, it always goes down. I don't want silverware up because when you go to unload it, you're touching the tines. You're touching the knives. You're touching where your mouth would go on silverware versus just taking the handle up.”

“I load the silverware facing down I don't I don't know if it should be up or down, but I just always put my silverware in facing down so when I go to unload the dishwasher, I don't get poked or stabbed when I'm pulling my silverware out.”

“So I put my plates all this way. I think I mentioned before, I'm left handed, so I don't know if that's why they're just all facing this way. But I do like all my plates to be facing the same way. There's really no rhyme or reason. It's just it just makes it easier when they're unloading when I'm unloading it because I can just, you know, stack them like that, and then we're good to go. And I can put them away a lot easier. And then my bowls, I like to have in the back kind of facing towards me so that the water can hit them better and the soap. And then my silverware, I like to keep facing up because I feel like that cleans it better. So I leave that facing up, and then my knives, I face down just for safety reasons. I don't wanna accidentally, you know, cut myself or, you know, accidentally stab myself on a knife while I'm unpacking it.”

“I keep my silverware facing straight up, and then my knives, put facing down towards the back.”

“Okay. So my rules are knives always point down. Plates stay together, bowls stay together so that you can lift them up and out when you're unloading a lot easier. We have nothing that is not dishwasher safe. We put everything in the dishwasher. I don't have the time to have things that are needing to be hand washed. So we pretty much put everything in there. Yeah.”

“Usually, knives are face down so they don't hurt anyone when you unload them.”

“The only rules we have is plates on the bottom, bowls at the top, and any knives or forks be upside down.”

“We always have the silverware facing up. That's something that's a rule.”

“I will say when my parents come and visit me, they pretty much pack it the same way as I do. I have noticed where they sometimes don't put the silverware facing up. So sometimes I have to fix that because that's just a thing of mine. I just find that if they're not facing up, they just don't get as clean. I don't know if that's true or not, but I think I found that on Google that you're supposed to put your silverware facing upward. And then a lot of times too, they kind of just throw the mugs and the glassware just kind of anywhere. I don't know if I'm just like OCD or if it's just me, but usually what I do is I have my glasses and mugs. I think I showed it earlier, but I have it on one side, and then in the middle, put, like, my smaller bowls in plates. So they don't really do that. They'll kind of put, like, a random mug in the middle of the rack, and I just find that kind of odd where I kinda do it on the side, and I kinda stack it, like, in order. So I'll kinda show you. So if I pull out the front rack, I always put, you know, a mug, glass. But what I do is I fill it from, like, here, and then I start another row over here before I put anything else. And maybe that's just me, but that's just how I like to run or not run, but how I like to load the dishwasher.”

“I will put the spoons together, the forks together, the knives together. I don't want them mixed together. It's just easier to put them in the drawer afterwards.”

“I guess knives go facing down in the utensil area. I like putting forks with forks in the utensil section and then spoons with spoons and so on.”

“I spread the silverware out so that it gets clean and is not clanking against. I think there might be something to be said with having powder detergent as well as the rinse aid seems to work really well.”

“So we always pre rinse all of our dishes. One of the rules that we have, regarding our dishes is on this bottom row, all of the plates have to be facing this way. We try not to put all of the silverware, you know, in these front two where it's easy to just kinda throw some in. We spread it out. And we always try to, you know, have them not, you know, exactly touching like this because it's not going to get rinsed very well. And especially up here with the bowls, we don't put them, you know, exactly in the rung right next to right next to each other. We'd skip one to make sure that all the inside parts of the bowl are clean.”

“I would just say, you know, stacking the plates. No, actually, I would say utensils are the most important because if you're having all the same utensils of the same kind, they're not going to get cleaned. So that's why that's most important. You have to make sure that all the knives and the forks and the spoons are not in the same spot, that they should be spread out.”

“That question cracks me up. So one of my one of my rules, which, again, isn't always followed, and I will come when I'm putting something in and redo it, is with the silverware tray. I like to separate my silverware. I like to put the spoons here, forks here, knives, and everything else go here. Typically, if I have it like a spatula or something, it it'll be too tall for my my utensil rack, so I'll put it flat in here. So mainly, everybody follows it. There are times that they don't, but when they don't, I am always there to correct it because I'm the only one that actually runs and empties the dishes.”