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Review on ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Rubbermaid Compact Dish Drainer by Kelsey Brown

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Smart design for storage and organization

I replaced an old Rubbermaid beige dish rack with this one. The reason for mentioning the color is because the black dryer's coating is thinner and feels a little firmer than the white and beige dryers I've seen. It's too early to tell if thickness matters. Two main issues with this upgraded unit: (a) If you don't use the rear cutlery holder as shown in the picture, you may want to hang it on the outside or side - you'll find that it doesn't have a wire base, and will therefore fall Dishes (even 10 inch dishes) onto the underlying mat and therefore does not dry completely. (b) In my old drying cabinet, if you placed dishes between the raised wire bars that run across the rack's short dimension and keep the dishes upright and separated, the dishes would settle and settle. stable between wires running perpendicularly along the long dimension of the frame. With this rack, the distance between those long wires has been narrowed so the dishes don't get stuck, but instead roll to the side where you would normally place glassware. This is true even for relatively small 9" cymbals. This shelf is also lighter than the old one (so when I hang the same cutlery holder on the side of this new one, the shelf tilts, which the old one didn't). I don't think that every Rubbermaid product is poorly designed, but some of them, especially dryers and dish racks, seem to have been designed by people who don't actually use them.Of course, not everyone has the same needs and preferences, but it seems that given the shortcomings I have identified could be designed to please a wider range of consumers than this design likely does.

Pros
  • Not cheap but decent
Cons
  • Nothing