My 60/40 has disposal on the smaller side. That's where I wash vegetables, clean strawberries, etc. I even wash smaller pans on that side. The larger side is big enough to bathe the baby! I dry hand-washed dishes on a towel next to the sink. I opted for the custom drainer for this sink but didn't use after the first month (it's been 4 years). Waste of $. But I do like the cutting board that fits the small side and use that all the time. btw, we have an airswitch that I learned about on this site. Love that.

Here is a link that might be useful: my 60/40 sink

We have our GD on the larger bowl. My DH cleans up and he likes to soak utensils & flatware in the small bowl while scraping dishes, etc. in the larger bowl.

Also, when I'm peeling potatoes I prefer the large bowl...I don't have to be as careful w/my aim! The peelings go everywhere in the sink and by using the larger bowl I don't have to be careful not to "throw" peelings outside the sink.

Our GD is going on the smaller bowl in large part because it is more shallow and so the GD will hang higher in the cabinet.

I've always had a 50/50 sink and would use one side for draining the washed dishes. We're definitely not a family to always dry dishes and put them away, and I really dislike a dish drainer or towel on the counter. OTOH I want to be able to soak larger pans, so.... this time I think we're doing a 60/40 sink. I want to be able to use the smaller side for drying, as well as for rinsing vegs if there are dirty dishes in the main sink. I am leaning towards putting the GD in the big bowl, because it will be the most-used side. In theory, the smaller sink is just sort of a bonus, a dish-rack or for use when the main sink is busy. Just theory.. we'll see what happens in real life!

I'll be putting the GD in the small side of my 60/40 sink, because the bigger side will frequently be full of dirty dishes!

I've always put the GD on the smaller side because I use the large side to hold dirty dishes, etc. I just load the dishwasher once at night.

I don't really handwash/dry dishes, but my parents do. They use their dishwasher racks to drain/dry their dishes, LOL.

I almost never actually fill the sink to wash dishes. Most dishes go in the dishwasher. The few remaining things to left to wash by hand don't warrant filling the sink. I also hate to see the dish rack on the counter. We have the disposal on the big side and keep a dish rack down inside the small side, just like staceyneil.

This is a link to the Whitehaus 60/40 sink we have. Small bowl is situated on the right in our install. We did install disposal in the small side, but honestly I have been thinking that I might have liked it better in the larger side. That side is large enough for dirty dishes and scraping, frankly. The small side is really small and I have to be careful when I am "aiming" -- we have container for veg. peels, eggshells, etc. for compost, but scraping dishes is a bit of a pain into such a small space, especially when training the 6 & 9 y.o. to do it. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: whitehaus sink

altho the sink is not actually installed yet, we will be putting the gd on the "small" side. That side is actually almost the same size as the right side of my old 50/50 sink so I won't be losing anything. I want to keep the "big" side for stacking and soaking.

I ditto budgeteer (all the reasons she states). In fact, my old arrangement had the disposal on the small side. I always had a small amount of dishes (sippy cups, etc.) air drying in there so it was not easy to scrape dirty dishes into the disposal. I LOVE it in the large basin, as my air-dryed dishes in the small basin remain clean and out of the way of disposal activity. I just make sure that dishes are scraped before I start to fill large basin with water.

HTH! (Oh, and I now have grids in both sinks and wouldn't be without them!)

The disposer normally goes on the smaller side.

I used to have a 50/50 split; kept a dish drainer for clean dishes on one side and always had the GD on the 'dirty dish' side of the sink. I now have a big/small split sink. The disposal is on the large side. I have a grid for both sinks and drain clean pots, utensils, etc by placing them on the grid in the small sink. This arrangement works well for me.

We currently have an 80/20 size sink (it seems) with the disposal in the smaller, shallower side, which I hate. Our new sink is more of a 60/40 split and we're leaning towards having the disposal hooked up to the larger side this time around.

We put ours in the small side and regret it. The big side holds dirty dishes and that's where large or extra icky items get scrubbed, so it would have made MUCH more sense to put the disposal in the big side. We're disappointed in the disposal at that sink anyway, so when we decide to switch it out, we'll move stuff around so that the disposal goes on the big sink.

Thanks to every ones advice. I was planning to keep my 50/50 but will now order a 60/40. I hope to put the GD on the big side. Thanks Again to you all!!!