I’m the dishwasher and the washing up air dries in the rack. Ain’t no one else here to do it.
Instead of the damn basket, get a dishwasher with a separate cutlery drawer.
We’ve done that in my family, ever since my brother fell backwards on a dish basket and ended upp with a fork stuck in his buttock. (Yes, just like in the cartoons.)
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What about Glass Onions?
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neither - sideways up top in a utensil rack. organized by type / size when they go in, so they never tangle and unloading putting back in the draw takes seconds.
and handwash and dry your cooking knives as you use them… philistines
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We have a reasonably priced GE Adora dishwasher with the silverware tray drawer 
AND a lower utensil holder that’s moveable. That’s where the metal straws go, and it seems to keep them gunk-free.
It’s also super quiet and gets stuff clean, although our hard water creates a surprising amount of buildup around the detergent door, no matter what detergent delivery system we use.
We too have very different ways of loading it within the household, and I’ve essentially taken that over so it’s finally efficient. I was not tactful about my disdain for disorder. 
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I’m a handles-up, over-the-top gal, but my housemates aren’t so I’ve had to make some concessions. Given I moved into a home with several cats, I compromised on the TP by setting the holder so the roll is vertical.
The compromise I won’t make, though, is mixed utensils vs. dedicated compartments. The latter does make it more convenient to unload, but the nesting that happens leaves more spoons (and sometimes forks) with crusty bits requiting rework.
The Bosch solution looks elegant, but to me it simply moves the tedium from the unloading process to the loading (as do the baskets that have handle slots).
Hm, if you had agitating utensil bins that might mitigate nesting without requiring more finicky loading! Yeah, that’s the ticket…
Even better, I’m sure Simone Giertz could create a fine robot to wash each utensil individually, and another to tear off your TP sheets for you. Clearly the best solution to both issues!
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Yup, my little flame-point figured this out. Better than my son’s giant cat who sometimes get a fancy for just plain biting the heck out of the roll. It must have nice mouth-feel for him. 
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End to the left or right?
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If you are washing knives that are sharp enough to be dangerous in the dishwasher, you are doing it wrong.
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I’ll hand wash chef knives, but a serrated steak knife? Pointy enough to be dangerous, no real good reason to hand wash.
Or the meat shredding claws we have. It’d be more dangerous to wash by hand than put in the dishwasher, and it’s still dangerous is the dishwasher.
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Pretty sure the way I load drives my partner a little nuts. But he doesn’t complain because he doesn’t want to be the only one doing it and, ultimately, as long as the dishes are done and clean it doesn’t matter. If it really bothers someone, well, that’s their chore now
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Commercial dishwashers are open trays, so yes, silverware is just spread out without much attention to detail.
We’re talking about consumer dishwashers, in people’s homes, which perform both wash & rinse but can also sanitize depending on the cycle chosen.
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Genius ! Yes… +1 to this !
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And silverware goes in the basket handles down, goes through the machine again and gets turned into another basket handles up. At least in a perfect situation.
At home I hand wash stuff I’d gladly run through a commercial machine at work.
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toilet paper goes on roller. 50% overhand, 50% underhand. Does it matter? It does not.
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So now that the loading a dishwasher delimma has been put to rest, what about kitchen sinks? A single large one, 50/50 split or 70/30? I’m a large single sink kind of person. I also feel they are dirty unless just cleaned. My dishes are rinsed, but do not touch the sink, and then go to a drying mat.
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Big sink! You never know when you will need to fit a large object in there. At home, it needs to hold a 1/2 sheet (18x12”) at work a full sheet. (18x24”)
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Be very careful cutting them - the onion can be more dangerous than the knife
ETA: Actually, thinking about it, it just seems dumb to try
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As long as you’re using the dishwasher according to manufacturer’s instructions, it really shouldn’t matter. Most modern dishwashers are designed to thoroughly clean every cubic centimeter of internal volume, so handles up, handles down, everything should get clean. Personally, I put handles down, and wash my hands before unloading. The only real debate in my house is pre-washing. My wife grew up with her mother washing all the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. This is inefficient, as well as unnecessary, at least if you’re using the dishwasher correctly. Which a whole lot of people aren’t, because detergent pods are convenient. The problem is that using a pod ignores the pre-wash spot included in most dishwashers, which is vital to its operation. Down with pods!
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