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Only vaguely related, but when you fill your dishwasher, put the cutlery sorted into the basket. Thus it's just one grab for the forks, spoons and knives each to take them from the machine into their compartment in the cutlery drawer, no more sorting required.

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Partially disagree. Cutlery of the same shape (e.g. spoons) might stick together and not get cleaned properly if they are all in the same compartment.

We flip every other utensil to help with this. Genrally works great.

But then you have to laboriously unflip half of them to put them away. Unless you are cutlery pointing in both directions like a Philistine?

My wife requires that we have cutlery pointing in both directions, in two neatly sorted piles, to optimize space usage and look good. But we also sort into the drawer not the dishwasher (I have to sort at least once, so it seems faster to me not to do it twice by sorting the dishwasher too)

Totally. The other part about it is, with my lifestyle, I fill the dishwasher throughout the day as I go, so when loading, it's barely more effort to put in into the right basket. Whereas sorting it at the unloading end, you've got to do the sorting all at once.

I prefer a dishwasher with a shallow cutlery drawer at the top, rather than a basket. It's trivial to slot the cutlery into the tray in groups, where it washes perfectly and comes out tidy.

It's much easier to sort clean utensils so I do the opposite.

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