That's a work of art

If space was at a premium, sure, but I'd hate to have this in our kitchen.

Those knives would get absolutely backsplashed by bacteria.

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.
- 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?
- You need to check your available space privilege.
- Some of us rent. I want a dishwasher, I can't have a dishwasher here
- Ok, and how are you fitting it in your kitchen when all cabinets are overflowing and you do not feel like removing your oven.

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

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.

This is normal in Italy. Just the rack would be higher.

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.

Looks neat and space efficient, but I have questions about why someone keeps fruit next to the dishes.

Don't worry, they're plastic.

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.

Magnificent.

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

I once had a tiny apartment and considered something like that. But it was too large to fit the space....

Bit performative hanging out the huge cleavers that you only use when there are guests around for dinner. Where’s the weird little serrated knife with a plastic handle?

I just pull mine out to scare the children

i would've loved this as a kid but i had a Bad Childhood

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.

I was watching cat videos and ended up pausing so I could admire the nice stairs this person had.

Cute cat too but them stairs! Dang!

(Then I realized I am old and sad lol)

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)
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.

I'm old enough to say it's pretty. No silverware. No utility/paring knives. Too many bowls, not enough plates. Most of my utensils can't hang. no glasses/cups, need at least 3 cutting boards.

Great taste, marginal execution.

The knife holder forces you to pull the knives up which simply is impossible with that shelf above
- The knife holder straddles the back post. The draining baskets are only forward of the back post.
  It doesn't look like it could hold more than a 7" knife, but you'd likely be able to lift it out behind the basket.
  Again, nothing i'd want to buy, but for an organized look, it's looks organized.

How do you get the knives in and out of that thing?

With AI, of course!
More importantly, why is the drain on the side of the sink? How do to you get the water out of that thing?
- it 'might' actually exist
- That's likely just the overflow drain?

This looks like to make cleaning large pans or baking sheets unnecessarily difficult.

Damn everyone hates this. I liked mine, but to each their own

I don't like the execution, but it's good in concept

I’ve showed my mother things like this once and she was very not at all excited at the idea of one in our kitchen.

Thats a pathetic little kitchen faucet. Real grownups use professional multi-spray kitchen faucets with removable head and swivel action...

I just bought my first home and immediately decided my first upgrade was to a faucet like this...
I think I need a new username haha
Oh yeah baby that's it
Depends how rich you are. Most of rent...
- True, the one on the picture is an overkill for meme reasons
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I considered this, but was forbidden: The limescale would leave it looking manky.
- The trick is to wipe it down with a wet soft wipe regularly, you dont even need chemicals.

Just wait until you discover the dishwasher.

I wanted to put a rack for those dishwasher trays into a regular cupboard, so that we could have basically a real dishwasher for dirty stuff, and a cupboard for clean stuff so that we never have to empty it.
My husband Veto'd it, because "that's the epitome of laziness". Which I think is exactly the point, but whatever. It's his job to empty the dishwasher now, which solves the problem too.
- Do you mean like this?
  https://images.app.goo.gl/1iUCRCcFd7XAUxBc6
  It's basically in every kitchen in Finland, and has spread somewhat to the other Nordic countries, but is apparently rare elsewhere.
- More like the epitome of efficiency.
- There was a guy on reddit who had two dishwashers for this reason.
  I feel like it would be more difficult to manage a system to figure out which one is dirty, rather than just emptying it.
- You are an absolute genius. If I was in a house I would build this 100% (I build all kinds of random things).
  ~~Also, tell your husband to do the dishes if it's so easy.~~ Reading hard.
Need room for one of those. We cannot have a dishwasher.
I will never use a dishwasher. Every time I have to drink water from a glass that gas gone through a dishwasher I find the smell disgusting. And people with dishwashers get used to the smell, and stop feeling it.
- This can be water. Detergent. Dirty dishwasher. Or you.
  Or any combination of those.
  What you are writing is highly abmormal.
- The dishwasher is actually better than what most people think, but a lot of them don't know that they're using it wrong.
- Try non scented detergent?
- Lol
- Did you forget to use detergent?
  If your glassware smells, something's wrong, as detergent uses water softening agents, enzymes, and rinse agents. Dishwashers do need to be regularly cleaned, and I've never met anyone who does so.
  There's also the question of the dry cycle, which is crucial if you live in a high humidity environment. Otherwise things will get musty, like leaving clothes in a washing machine.
  Restaurants use dishwashers (though generally not the same type as home units, but small shops have similar commercial units with fast cycles) - have you experienced this there?
  Edit: For some reason the "default" way to store glassware in cupboards is upside down. I've always found this causes things to smell musty with the trapped air. Even worse in cabinets with no covering on the wood - that's just nasty. Or with old shelf paper that never gets cleaned, so there's all sorts of grubbiness making smells.
  Even in dry climates I've found upside down causes funk.
- I agree. I can also smell and taste rot and staleness before other people.
  What we get from this, other people simply don't pick up. Fun percentile eh?
  Eveey dish I have used in the last 40 years I could tell if it had been in a dishwasher recently. Very unique odor. Doesn't matter who's dishwasher.
  I hand wash my dishes.
- ... turn the glasses upsidedown when putting them into a dishwasher.
  (Also all restaurants use dishwashers, albeit they are of the more speedy sort. The funny smell is just the poor lad washing the dishes.)
- I used to feel like there was an aftertaste. I switched to using a vinegar dilution in the "rinse aid" slot and that's done the trick.

The knives look like a pain to load and remove though

Yup. Also: I'm tall, so now I can't see everything that's in the sink. It also needs some kind of anti-tip measure if the suggested use is to keep heavy dishes up high like that. Also, I'm not convinced this is sanitary - are we gonna get raw-chicken-water-splashback onto clean plates?
- How often is your raw chicken in the sink
- It's a DRYING rack, it isn't meant to be permanent storage. You wash the dishes after dinner, and place them in the rack. The next morning, after they've dried, the first thing you do is put them all back in the cabinets.
  However, I acknowledge that a LOT of people won't bother with the second step.
- My short ass finds some of this helpful but not enough! It's going to be difficult to get some of the stuff from the back of the top rack for me. More room though...
~~This looks like AI.~~
Why's the drain on the side?
What are those cinnamon sticks?
Why put fruit on the drying rack?
Blurry ass soap labels.
The whisk and ladle are oddly placed.
Alas. I was bamboozled. It's real crap on Wayfair, and it's modular. It's just set up in a dumb way for the pictures.
- I actually have this thing. The knife thing is annoying and it just sits on the back acting as a brace for the dishsoap bottle. The cutting board rack is kinda dumb because it just dries onto your counter.
  But the baskets are nice because they drain into the sink. It was a really cheap kitchen improvement purchase I don't regret.
  What it needs though are raised rubber gasket lined feet so it doesn't hold bits of water under the base you have to lift and wipe up. It's cheap material and easily modified.
  /product review mode
Nah that’s just in the pictured configuration. The baskets and all the accessories just hook onto the rack frame so you can move things around to whatever config you want. Do the dish baskets on top of each other and leave the ‘flatter’ bits (like the knife block) for over the actual sink, much better config. Thirty second job even with the dishes on them.

That would cause me so much claustrophobia at the sink i would stop washing dishes.

wiki/Maiju_Gebhard

Maiju Gebhard (September 15, 1896, in Helsinki – July 18, 1986, in Helsinki) was a Finnish inventor who invented the dish drying cabinet as the head of the household department at the Finnish Work Efficiency Institute in 1944 and 1945. She was the only child of economist Hannes Gebhard and politician Hedvig Gebhard.

- I love this concept. The big problem is that a lot of American kitchens are (weirdly) modeled after old farmhouses where the sink was always under the one window in the whole room. The trend is absolutely hostile to this idea.
- I like these a lot better since the dishes are put a lot higher, meaning more space to move between the shelf and the sink. Guess this makes me no longer young.
It's also super cool that they had a productivity institute before. I wonder what we could have achieved with something like that today.
There are so many ways we could make society more efficient for everyone. Companies mostly focus on smaller issues for consumers, but society could have a more overarching look, and not focus on profits, but on quality of life and efficiency.
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I've also seen these in Italy. Quite genious.
- Wait they're not common elsewhere?
- Genious.
- Yeah, and not just Ikea stuff either, local brands there offer this too.
  (I actually don't really like the concept, but would def think about it if for some reason I would stop using dishwashers.)

Yeah, no I'll stick with the dishwasher.

But how do you dry the dishes once the dishwasher is done? Do you leave them in the dishwasher to dry, which mean that you can't add new dished until it's all dry and you've emptied it? Do you let them dry on a counter? But in that case where do you find enough space? Or do you put the wet dishes in your cupboards even though it'll trap moisture in there? Or do you manually wipe the dishes with towels like some crazy people do?
- I run it at night and it opens automatically when it's done. Wake up to clean dry dishes.
- I just open the dishwasher. Pull out the bottom rack, shake the top rack a bit and deal with any puddles. Anything that's not dry just goes back in for another hour. Leave the door open until dry.
- Good dishwashers have a heating element on the bottom. . It turns on and dries the dishes in a cloud of steam. There is also a button on mine that's for high heat (sanitize) that I leave on. This ensures that the dishes get completely dry.
- My dishwasher dries the dishes too?
Right? I'd get more excited about a dishwasher.
And I don't mean one with tits. They also get to enjoy free time when the mechanical dishwasher is running.
- Wtf?

It's the double sink that gets me. I've lived in places with a double sink. I do not have a double sink right now.
\ I need double sink in my life.

Use the poor man's replacement plastic tub.
- This is the way. Double sinks suck. With this you have a double when you need, but can also waeh big things like oven sheets.
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Such a pain moving from a country where it is the default to a country where it is unheard of.
What do you do with double sink? I've never had a double sink and I can't imagine how I would use it
- It makes washing dishes incredibly efficient, with less water wastage. I could wash the dishes for a family of four in absolutely no time at all, but without a double sink that takes much longer with more water used.
- I can say with certainty you have never hand washed a sink full of dishes before.
- Idk about others, but I have one sink for wash water, and one for rinse water.
I’ve always tried to tell my SO this, but she’s been skeptical. Now, we’re renting a smaller apartment while renovating our bath, and she absolutely detests having only one sink basin!
I too dream of a double sink.
On the one hand I'd love that but on the other it's more cleaning
- No not really. There’s pretty much zero maintenance on stainless steel sinks. Once in a blue moon you can wash down the sinks while doing dishes but it really happens less than you think.

"This is just a quick message to anyone out there who might be thinking of one day become an adult. I would personally advise against it."

"This is as good as it gets"

Except it won't look so pretty and also I can't imagine using the dispensers without taking them out of that thing unless it's VERY rigid.

My mother in law has one of those and I hate it, its all wobbly and just holds way too many dishes so they end up living there basically.

You think my ADHD ass is ever unloading a drying rack? The dishes would just live there and I’d always be cramming new ones into it.

If only we had some technology that could dry a dish immediately and didn’t take up tons of space or grow mold… like some kind of flexible, absorbent material that sucks up the water? We should have NASA work on it

I‘d prefer some sort of drying rack machine that also automatically cleans the dishes in the first place. That’d be a crazy concept. Like, you load in dirty dishes and then you wait a little and bam, they’re clean and (mostly) dry.
- Sure, but not everything goes in the dishwasher
Stick a fan above it. Would dry it quicker.
- The waiting time is not the issue

I want it. Where do I get it?

Wayfair. $72. 4.8 stars. They have other similar items that are cheaper.

We have one of these! Saw a pic on Reddit and had it delivered within a week. We actually use it all the time for things that shouldn’t go in the dishwasher. A few things:

They’re expandable, so they can go over single and double sinks.
They’re generally made of “just strong enough” metal, to the shelves sag. Have had some heavy stuff on there, so it’s still pretty solid.
It never looks anywhere near this organized.
Stuff stays on it way longer than necessary, but it does eventually get put away… when we have company over.

I have one of these, too, and I’ve never been able to use it. Would if I could, it’s brilliant! But in my last flat it was too tall to fit under the cupboards, and in my current one it’s too wide to fir between them.
I have a dishwasher, but I use a dish dryer as a ‘pre-washer rack’ because my ADHD ass can never empty a clean dishwasher quick enough to avoid dirty dishes piling up. So the dryer rack keeps dishes from blocking the sink. Stupid problems sometimes require stupid solutions.
My mother never really removes the dishes from the drying rack, she uses it as storage (it's a cabinet), the one in her home is bent visibly, but it still holds after decades of work.

I need something like this for my pots and pans because keeping them in the cupboards is too chaotic.

12 fucking bowls, that's a lot of cereal in a day.

Look here everyone! @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works does dishes every day!!
:p

I might need this. But I also have a cat.

No link to the purchase? Wtf op. ;)

This is for hand-washing?

No, this is Patrick

Id say. I own that same rack.

I've always wanted the version built into a cabinet, but I live in a high-humdity area and that just screams of mold issues. Why not the version as pictured in the open? Earthquakes. Still, definitely at the point in my life that it's awesome at least in theory

I wondered if they perforated the bottom shelf of those cabinets so water could just drain out into the sink?
- Some of them (the Finnish ones I saw) just had the bottom being the rack, basically, so at least that had dripping and airflow. Having an actual board below it would be a terrible idea, I think, heh.

Looks reasonable, but feels like giving up. I'm not ready to give up on cupboards.

tbh I was more well organized back in the days. Now I just have no fucks to give.

I got way too big of a house to even attempt to keep it

I wait for robots, in the meantime I am moving out the second it gets too clunky aside from two roombas that keep floor in passable condition

Maybe new house will have more allure to keep it or maybe I should hire someone but I don’t trust hired mercenaries to wage war on my dirt

Just don't ever Google the coulds of pathogens that spew forth from your drain.

There are things you are better not knowing 😭 😭 😭