Handle Up Or Handle Down?
After you wash up the cutlery, do you put your knives, forks or spoons with the handle in the cutlery drain or with the handle sticking up? I chose handle down so that more cutlery can be put in, so that I can see what is a spoon or fork, but also to stop the eating part of the cutlery getting coated with the scum in the bottom of the cutlery drain. On the otherhand, handle up means you only touch the cutlery by the handle. So what do you do? Automatic dishwasher-owners need not reply 
Automatic Dishwashing. Tableware Handle Up Or Down?
My roommate insists that all tableware in the dishwasher go handle down, except for steak knives. However, when emptying the tableware, one touches the part of the utensil which touches your food/goes in your mouth.
I say it should go the other way as you would only touch the handle. I have so far given in, but this makes no sense at all.
So the question is, up or down with the handle?
