Need help finding a nice durable kitchen dish drain rack
vimatuk
8 years ago
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Comments (19)Wow, my Pfaltzgraff stoneware is holding up beautifully. In the 12 years we've had it I think we've broken two plates, and I have even managed to break Corelle (I think I have a talent for dropping them at the exact angle to make them explode into a bazillion tiny shards). None of the pieces have chips or cracks. I have the Acadia pattern, plain white with a basketweave border; I stocked up when they discontinued it a few years ago and pick up pieces on eBay from time to time, since I'm too cheap to pay Replacements' prices. :-) Yes, they get some gray marks on them from knives - any white stoneware does - but if you get really upset about it they can be removed with some Soft Scrub or Barkeeper's Friend or something like that. If you have an Ikea around, I have heard good things about their dishes, and you can't beat the price with a stick....See Moredish drain -- do you have one?
Comments (15)Our dish drainer is out all the time on the counter. It's part of the kitchen landscape and it's an extremely useful tool. It folds up and can be put away--but that really only happens when we're taking pictures :) My mother's drainer is in one sink of her double sink. I find it very awkward. It's difficult to use the sink without splashing or dripping on the dishes that are supposedly drying. It's difficult to pour cooking water out of a pot when one sink is full of sudsy water and the other sink has clean dishes. I prefer the better air circulation on the counter top. I wash quite a few dishes. We're home all day long (dh and I both work from home) so the rack is constantly being used. I like to hand wash easy-to-clean cooking pots (i.e. ones used to steam veggies or cook pasta). I find it easier than loading them into a dw--plus I don't like taking up a lot of space in the dw with bulky items. We also wash all plastic, wood, cast iron and any pots that aren't all stainless steel. I prefer air drying to towel drying. Our dish drainer sits on a sloped drain board built into our stone counter....See MoreDecluttering Help - Dish Rack on counter vs. sink, folding vs. no
Comments (40)I have a question. I often put my pots/pans right back onto the stove to dry, instead of taking up room in the dish rack. Is this a bad idea? They really don't seem to drip at all. (I usually leave the lids in the dish rack, though.) I have an older Simple Human dish rack, and keep two narrow silicone OXO drying mats underneath it for my cooking knives. I also pull those mats out to the side when I have wine glasses to dry. I'd love to get rid of this system, but I can't bring myself to commit to hand-drying all the time right now, in the middle of a move. It might be my next New Years' goal, though. My MIL has zero counter space and hand-dries all the time, even when she visits here. I've been intrigued! (Years ago, my New Years' goal was to make my bed daily and wash my sheets weekly, and it "stuck" -- going on at least four years now!)...See MoreDish drying rack
Comments (20)We use a drying mat. I have 3 that I can rotate. I am home with kids all day so it never really gets put away. We usually run the dishwasher every day or every other day. It almost always has a cutting board, knives, measuring cups and a nonstick skillet because they are used frequently and I can't spare them until the next time the DW is run. I don't have a rack because I have very limited counter space, and when I'm cooking for a large group, I need to be able to stow it. And I don't have room to stow a rack....See More
vimatuk
8 years ago
Carrie B
8 years agoSilverware fits fine on it, too. I hand wash my wooden chopsticks & sharp knives, and lay them on the drying rack. It would work w/ silverware, too. One nice thing is that you can fold it in half if you only have a few small items, and don't want to use up so much of the sink:
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