A clean kitchen is a triumph of the modern era. Show this to a caveman or a renaissance era scholar and claim two middle-age adults with at least one child and a dog accomplished it in less than an hour. They will praise it as a miracle.
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.
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.
I just have a dishwasher so this would be a bit overkill.
So, the art is a bit deceiving. We have a few things that can’t go in the dishwasher - the espresso pot which would be ruined in the machine, a few bigger pots and serving bowls that don’t fit neatly, some of my son’s high chair components that get gunked between meals, our nice set of enameled chopsticks that need to be hand-washed - and this works great to keep them out of the sink while we’re doing the rest of the kitchen.
But I agree, there’s no reason 90% of the image art stuff can’t just go in the dishwasher normally.
Those knives would get absolutely backsplashed by bacteria.
They’d also be very difficult to place and remove.
Some people will literally do anything to avoid using/purchasing a dishwasher. I don’t get it. Hand washing is unsanitary, time-consuming, and wastes water. Just fork over the $600 and get one already. It’ll change your life for the better.
Just fork over the $600
I prefer paying my rent over kitchen appliances
You can get them for way less though (esp. used).
If you’re paying rent, you’d think the unit would just come with the kitchen basics.
Do you have a refrigerator, at least? A stove? Or is your landlord making you use a shared root cellar and chimney fire?
It doesn’t have to waste more water. There are ways to do the dishes where you only use water to rinse off the already washed plates. That is in fact less water than with a dishwasher. Maybe you are thinking of washing the dished with the water constantly on.
You need to check your available space privilege.
I have both. I’m not putting my plastic salad spinner or German chef knives or old plastic food storage containers or blender jar or my pots and pans and etc. in the dishwasher. Restaurants have human dishwashers for valid reasons.
How is it unsanitary?
Because the machine is generally more reliable at doing it in a more sanitary way. People often cut corners when doing it manually.
Some of us rent. I want a dishwasher, I can’t have a dishwasher here
Where are you living that the unit doesn’t come with a dishwasher? I’ve been all over Houston, on the rich side and the poor side, and I’ve never seen a unit that doesn’t at least have one of those bargain basement whirlpools.
In the greater Seattle area it’s about 50/50 whether a rental will have a dishwasher.
That’s crazy, especially considering rental rates.
Ok, and how are you fitting it in your kitchen when all cabinets are overflowing and you do not feel like removing your oven.
I put it in the space for the dishwasher. If you do not have such a space in your kitchen, there are standalone units, even countertop variants. You could remove a cabinet if you can afford to lose the space.
The counter top ones take up a lot of space, and you cannot use your kitchen sink while it is running because it connects to your kitchen faucet. Which also means you need to have the correct kind of faucet for the attachment to fit. Also, dishwashers use a lot of power. There are hidden costs at play here, and with the price of power only going up, why wouldn’t I do dishes the cheap way? Not to mention haveing to buy dishwasher tablets and all the waste products created by the single use packaging.
even countertop variants
Good thing countertops have no use in a kitchen!
Many people rent. You can’t just remove a cabinet in that case. Can’t decide how big the kitchen is either. I’m sorry, but your comments come off as very privilaged and honestly ignorant.
So you wheel it around?
I have one of these and it’s pretty cool. The knife holder thing sucks ass though, idk who thought that was a good idea.
Lots of folks saying “why don’t you just dry and put your dishes away?” but I have this exact model and use it mainly for storage. Zero cabinet space in my tiny kitchen. With this I can actually own enough plates and bowls to feed guests!
yeah I own one cause even though I have a dishwasher there’s some stuff that’s hand wash only and you can use it for handy storage too like yours
Looks neat and space efficient, but I have questions about why someone keeps fruit next to the dishes.
Don’t worry, they’re plastic.
Looks terrible. I can’t use the sink without worrying about splashing the clean dishes. Disgusting. And they’re practically just hanging in my way.
How would you possibly splash dishes so high above the sink?
This is normal in Italy. Just the rack would be higher.
We just got one of these a couple weeks ago, my mom and I got to crack up over this, thank you. Who knows how many more laughs I’ll be able to share with her before death comes knocking.
You know how to take your dish rack to the next level? Slap some large googly eyes on that bad boy. Surpise your mom. Make those memories.
Actually this is an abomination and I hate it
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.
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
Magnificent.
I’m old, and I actually hate this…
How awkward it must be to try to remove the knives. And why is the fruit in the top right? The cutting boards are going to leak all over the counter after you wash them.
Also, I have a dishwasher… So this is just a great way to block the window in front of most sinks for no good reason.
You’re the only person who mentioned the window.
An efficient way to drain dishware is great, but looking out the window when you’re in the kitchen brings much joy.
And a window can be an emergency fire escape.
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)
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.
Link?
Currently unavailable on amazon, but this is where I bought it:
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.
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.
