Comments on: Photo of the day: Whirlpool dishwasher utensil tray

By: whitney

whitney — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:49:51 +0000

How awesome is it that you randomly found this blog post and it helped you to use your dishwasher?!? So glad I could be of some small service to you :)

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:48:53 +0000

Hmmmmm, just bought one of these dishwashers used… installed it and was griping about the floppy utensil tray that didn’t seem to fit anywhere! Googled images to see if I could figure out how old this dishwasher was, and saw your post. So, the tray goes on the door or exterior shelf huh? Cool!

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By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:13:26 +0000

So happy that you learned something from my blog! Let us know how/if things
change with the utensil tray attached to the door.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:30:35 +0000

Have had a dishwasher like this for about 6 years…never knew it didn't have to go on the door. Can you say “lack of affordance” or “non-intuitive?” I thought you could. :-)

By: Mathew Sanders

Mathew Sanders — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:16:47 +0000

Here in New Zealand we're (well, at least I am) pretty proud of a company called Fisher & Paykel who make some pretty innovative products.

One is the Dish Drawer which instead of having a door that folds down and trays you pull out just has two independently operating draws that can be stacked on top of each other or side-by-side.
http://www.fisherpaykel.com/press/photos/dishdr...

This allows you to run a half wash that saves water and power, and in my opinion is just easier to use and avoids the flimsy trays you often get on dishwashers that fall off their rails.

By: hilker

hilker — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:09:56 +0000

we have one very similar to this, too. even better than saving room is the ability to take the silverware container with me around the kitchen as i put away silverware, baby spoons, & other utensils in various corners of the kitchen. a downside: if i want to unload the silverware last & i leave the container in place, the water still left in the dishes will fall directly onto my clean forks & spoons.

i've never thought to hang it on the front of the bottom drawer; i'll have to look into that.

By: LynneP

LynneP — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:59:05 +0000

We had one like this when I was growing up. We liked it because you could remove the silverware tray/basket and haul the whole thing across to the other side of the kitchen where the cutlery drawers were to unload it. The kitchen wasn't well designed, but thankfully the dishwasher was! :)

By: lindawadman

lindawadman — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:46:12 +0000

Got one over a year ago. Love it. Can fit lots more than my old dishwasher and the utensils actually come clean.

By: Eric Wiley

Eric Wiley — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:44:18 +0000

I have it too. Didn't know it could hang on the rack.

I'd always been jazzed about the fact that, once everything's clean, I could just pull the entire container-full of silver out; put it on the counter above the silverware drawer and make a quick transfer.