Looks neat and space efficient, but I have questions about why someone keeps fruit next to the dishes.
Don’t worry, they’re plastic.
Yeah, no I’ll stick with the dishwasher.
Right? I’d get more excited about a dishwasher.
And I don’t mean one with tits. They also get to enjoy free time when the mechanical dishwasher is running.
Wtf?
Say it in a Dutch accent. It doesn’t sound as bad.
But how do you dry the dishes once the dishwasher is done? Do you leave them in the dishwasher to dry, which mean that you can’t add new dished until it’s all dry and you’ve emptied it? Do you let them dry on a counter? But in that case where do you find enough space? Or do you put the wet dishes in your cupboards even though it’ll trap moisture in there? Or do you manually wipe the dishes with towels like some crazy people do?
My dishwasher dries the dishes too?
Good dishwashers have a heating element on the bottom. . It turns on and dries the dishes in a cloud of steam. There is also a button on mine that’s for high heat (sanitize) that I leave on. This ensures that the dishes get completely dry.
Really? Everytime I go to family or friends who have a dishwasher and help with emptying it, the dishes are always at least a bit wet… Maybe everyone I know just has cheap dishwashers 😅 Sanitizing on high heat seems like a great feature to have
I sanitize my cider bottles in the dishwasher. Works great.
That would be so convenient! Sanitizing pots and bottles in boiling water is a pain. THEY FLOAT. Plus the water is so hard here that after a long bath of boiling water you can barely see through the glass, they are clean but look so dirty 😡
No space for a dishwasher though 😢
I just open the dishwasher. Pull out the bottom rack, shake the top rack a bit and deal with any puddles. Anything that’s not dry just goes back in for another hour. Leave the door open until dry.
I run it at night and it opens automatically when it’s done. Wake up to clean dry dishes.
How do you get the knives in and out of that thing?
With AI, of course!
More importantly, why is the drain on the side of the sink? How do to you get the water out of that thing?
That’s likely just the overflow drain?
it ‘might’ actually exist
It’s sad this is real, it’s awful in design… Someone in the thread claimed to have one, and admitted the knives were frustrating to store and remove.
I need something like this for my pots and pans because keeping them in the cupboards is too chaotic.
Just don’t ever Google the coulds of pathogens that spew forth from your drain.
There are things you are better not knowing 😭 😭 😭
And then you get to a point where you look at that and think “clever but I’m sure it’s fucked up in some way that isn’t immediately obvious.”
I can’t figure out how you’d actually get a knife in those slots with the ledge above it.
I have this drying rack, and… I LOVE it!
But the knife holder is the biggest problem. All the bits are modular so you can set it up with the knife holder not having something right above it, but my favorite knife is too long to sit in the knife holder without stabbing the countertop. I solved the problem by getting one of those magnetic knife holders and mounting it to the side of the rack.
Also, when people who come over to my place for dinner or hanging out, about half of them make a comment about how awesome the drying rack is.
(I’m 47 and I got this rack about 5 years ago)
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Currently unavailable on amazon, but this is where I bought it:
I considered buying one of these several years ago, but I measured everything out and… I don’t have the clearance for it. Woe is me.
Maybe my next kitchen.
All this crap in my way and too much clutter. Yuck. Also, anything over a sink is likely to get splashed. This is creating more cleaning work, and for what?
And who dries dishes like this? Are they not already clean and dry out of the dishwasher? Hand washing is very wasteful and time consuming.
Not everyone owns a dishwasher.
Not everything fits our should go in a dishwasher either.
The immediately obvious way is that you don’t need a fucking scaffolding around your sink for any of this. Put the knives on magnets like a normal person. Dry your dishes and put them away like an adult, you aren’t in college anymore, have some fucking dignity. Put the fruit literally anywhere else. That leaves the soap, which can just sit on the fucking counter. It’s not going to damage anything in an earthquake. It doesn’t need to be caged.
Counters should be flat, clean and empty of single purpose appliances or extraneous errata. This is the recipe for positive mental health.
“This is as good as it gets”
Damn everyone hates this. I liked mine, but to each their own
I don’t like the execution, but it’s good in concept
Um but wtf is all the water draining to? The work surfaces?
Also imagine knocking this over. Fml.
Most of the stuff that needs draining should flow mostly into the sink, but I do agree it looks like one could get where you don’t want.
As for knocking it over, the “feet” look relatively sturdy, so ideally that would be difficult to do.
If space was at a premium, sure, but I’d hate to have this in our kitchen.
Unless that window has a view of a brick wall I agree. Also butcher block with a drying rack dripping on it isn’t gonna last long.
You think my ADHD ass is ever unloading a drying rack? The dishes would just live there and I’d always be cramming new ones into it.
If only we had some technology that could dry a dish immediately and didn’t take up tons of space or grow mold… like some kind of flexible, absorbent material that sucks up the water? We should have NASA work on it
Stick a fan above it. Would dry it quicker.
The waiting time is not the issue
I prefer the Dutch cabinet (I think that’s what they’re called) is what I want. It’s basically that except it’s in a cabinet.
Actually this is an abomination and I hate it
I hate it too. My SO bought one and its not a great product. It’s hard to wash anything larger than a small pan, it leaks water everywhere, and makes cleaning the please difficult. It also looks horrible in our apartment kitchen.
Controversial! I admire your gumption
I would be bothered by having low clearance above the sink to do dishes, even if it was practically enough room.
A side rack with drainage into the sink is ideal for handwashing dishes, anything more or less complicated than that is going to be endless headaches. This thing looks unstable as fuck.
Imagine pumping soap from the dispenser while the top rack has several plates and pots and pans (and fruit??) on it.
I have never needed a drying rack in my life. On the very rare occasion I can’t just dry something and put it away, I leave it sitting on a towel to dry. When I am done I wash the towel and the counter again becomes empty. I am not kidding when I say I am an empty counter extremist.
We just use the right side of the sink for drying. It has a little plastic grate insert to elevate the dishes and dirty dishes go into the left side, clean into the right, and then theyre dry by the next time you need to do dishes so they get put away. Only time its somewhat of an inconvenience is when i want to fill the brita pitcher and theres no bottom of the sink to rest it on so i have to hold it or place it on the counter and hold the sink hose over it.
It’s the double sink that gets me. I’ve lived in places with a double sink. I do not have a double sink right now.
I need double sink in my life.On the one hand I’d love that but on the other it’s more cleaning
No not really. There’s pretty much zero maintenance on stainless steel sinks. Once in a blue moon you can wash down the sinks while doing dishes but it really happens less than you think.
To be fair I do have to wipe my sinks more often, only because we have rather hard water in this area. The scale builds up quickly.
Same here, I deep clean it, then as soon as I open the water for a split second, it’s all white again
I’ve resorted, about a year or so ago, to using large bottles of natural spring water for the kettle (when making tea/coffee).
It’s an extra expense, however the lack of scaling has been lovely. Not had to clean my kettle once.My sink is another story though.
Yeah the kettle gets bottle water, it’d be a block of limestone by now otherwise.
Ok so that takes you what an extra 30-90 seconds like once or twice a month? That’s negligible. The other person Almost made it sound like he had to spend hours because of extra basin.
Yeah pretty much. It’s not a big issue though one which could become compounded into one if there is any slack with the cleaning times.
I too dream of a double sink.
Use the poor man’s replacement plastic tub.
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This is the way. Double sinks suck. With this you have a double when you need, but can also waeh big things like oven sheets.
Such a pain moving from a country where it is the default to a country where it is unheard of.
What do you do with double sink? I’ve never had a double sink and I can’t imagine how I would use it
Idk about others, but I have one sink for wash water, and one for rinse water.
And you, just, like, put a clean dish in the same stale water as all the others? I am shivering just thinking about! Only the first couple of plates will be clean, everything else is dirty with the shit from previous plate!
I’m not sure what you mean. I fully wash the dish in the wash water, then put it in the straight hot rinse water for a minute or so before putting it in the drainer to air dry. The hot water helps them air dry faster and rinses the soap off. If the rinse water is any less than completely clear, I’m not washing the properly, and I drain and refresh the rinse sink. In my opinion it saves water over rinsing each dish under running water.
it saves water
Oh, with big enough amounts, sure.
Yeah, it didn’t save much water when I was single. Half the time I didn’t even fill the wash sink.
The rinse water is clean and stays clean. You’re rinsing off the soap suds. You can wash a shit ton of dishes and the end result is the wash water is dirty and the rinse water is clear. Frankly you’re being absurd, you’re not shoveling dirty water into the rinse water JFC. The rinse cycle on a dishwasher is wayyy worse.
How can it stay clean if you just put all your dirty plates there? And oils, all the oils are floating on top! And all the pieces and bits, just there!
Are you serious? Dish soap breaks down oil. You wash in the dish soap. Which breaks down the oil. Bits and pieces come off in the wash water. When you pick up the dish, the wash water comes off. Carrying the bits and pieces with it. Back into the wash water. Some soap suds remain, which you rinse off in the rinse water. Have you never washed dishes?
It’s actually not exactly true. Soap doesn’t break down oil. It attaches to the oil molecules, and attaches to a water molecule by the other end. Which, when the water is running away and takes all this mess into the drain, is incredibly effective. With the stagnant pool of water, less so.
I did wash the dishes in buckets when I was young, lived in poverty, and had to do it all by hands. I still remember that feeling of always dirty dishes, that’s why I am always terrified when people do it on purpose.
It makes washing dishes incredibly efficient, with less water wastage. I could wash the dishes for a family of four in absolutely no time at all, but without a double sink that takes much longer with more water used.
Single sink makes cleaning pans so much easier. Everything smaller goes in the dish washer, so much faster than hand cleaning.
I can say with certainty you have never hand washed a sink full of dishes before.
I did, in that terrible time without the dishwasher, that I would like to forget. I was taking a plate, scrubbing it with a sponge and then rinsing it with clean water from the tap.
Or do you want me to tell, y’all using a dirty sink full of dirty water to do it?They sure are and “what do you mean rinsing with clean water?” say some folks in Europe
Not sure if we can blame the commercials
I don’t use dishwashers, but I hand wash and rinse everything, as well as change the water when it’s greasy or otherwise too dirty.
And I can taste when dishes have been in a dishwasher, for 40 years+
As I understand from the other comments, it’s a place to put the dishes after they’ve been cleaned and ready for rinsing? The way I’ve always done it is I clean the largest vessel first, then everything goes into that vessel until it fills up, then do a round of rinsing. If I don’t have a large dirty vessel, I take out a large clean mixing bowl for this purpose.
I’ve always tried to tell my SO this, but she’s been skeptical. Now, we’re renting a smaller apartment while renovating our bath, and she absolutely detests having only one sink basin!
That would cause me so much claustrophobia at the sink i would stop washing dishes.
