Million Dollar Idea number 002
I think someone should organize a Dishwasher Olympics. I consider myself pretty good at fitting dishes in with each other and recognizing when more will fit. I think I'd get style points for distributing the forks, knives, and spoons evenly among the compartments of little holding box. For example, I never put two forks in the same compartment until every compartment has a fork. I just realized that this method sort of resembles the aufbau principle from chemistry, and that probably makes me one of the most obsessive dorks alive.
You know, I can't really think of many separate events to include in the Dishwasher Olympics, so instead I've decided just to make dishwasher loading a single event in the regular Olympics. Wish me luck.
Submitted by
ReviewGuru
at 6/22/2004 12:49:17 PM- The question I have is this:
Do you stick your utensils in the compartments with the handles facing out or the used end facing out?
Submitted by
nathan
at 6/23/2004 10:27:16 PM- Handles facing out (up), definitely, because why touch the business end of a newly washed fork with your fingers? On the other hand, if roomie loads stuff handles-down, it doesn't bug me, except for sharp knives occasionally.
I thought of another event. There's that whole top shelf/bottom shelf thing. Not Everything Can Go On The Bottom Shelf! It would be a timed event, of course, and the winning "athlete" will have correctly sorted through the most items, placing each item carefully on its correct shelf. It's lame, but what can you expect from the Dishwasher Olympics?!
I'm like you, by the way. I Will Not have any of my spoons "spooning" each other in the utensil compartment.