In Singapore at our rented apartment in a condo we bought an expensive plate and cutlery rack from a department store, probably Tang's at the central crossroads of Orchard Road. The rack was large, shiny chrome, with a plastic tray underneath which you could wash, with a spout to direct water into the sink, and cutlery holders you could remove to wash - frequently growing black mould in the humidity.
We had no dishwasher. Many homes in Singapore have a maid's room off what I call the scullery, what American's call the utility area. The kitchen was too small for an undersink dishwasher and the work surface was not large enough for a table top model. Most homes employed a mai from the Philippines or Indonesia who washed up by hand.
The metal went rusty eventually, After eight years in that condo, we were onto our second or third cutlery rack.
Back at home in the UK, we have the same problem. Although we have a dishwasher, some items are not dishwasher proof. For example, plastic take away bowls which buckle in the heat. Wooden handled cutlery loses its shine. Delicate Royal Albert cups would lose the painting, or chip if you slam the dishwasher door shut and items in the top rack bounce against each other. Wooden handled steak knives - not in the dishwasher! Denbyware cutlery with china handles can develop chips around the join at the top, or cracks.
Our Nespresso coffee cups get washed by hand, because they are in constant use. We have three, but drink three cups every morning, each of us. So it's quicker to wash by hand and leave them to drain.
I went online looking at cutlery trays. The cheapest cost about ten pounds UK sterling,
You can re-set your computer location, or re-set your google or website to another country, if you are about to move, or want to use a different credit card, or are buying for somebody overseas, or plan delivery overseas.) You can also set to a different currency.
If you buy in one country and ship to another, you might get charged tax before the mail will deliver your parcel. We were charged tax, a hefty amount of about seventy pounds sterling, after paying about a hundred Sing dollars to send our kitchenware back from Singapore to the UK, even though almost all of it was used and second hand, and had already paid tax when bought originally in the UK and taken to Singapore in hand luggage with us on the plane.
I found the cheapest item was as little as about two pounds. My husband looked at it and said, it's only 7 inches deep. Our current one is about eleven. If you have a short, or low, item, your cutlery and plates will topple and things will break. It will be a disaster. We have long tongs and spatulas and huge dinner plates.
It depends on what you are using the cutlery tray for. in a serviced apartment with just one set of four of everything, hotel quality, thick and heavy cups, almost unbreakable, small plates. only two long handled items which can be laid sideways, a deep sink for washing without splashing, or draining.
In addition to the huge 24 hour supermarkets in city centres, you can browse and buy in the cheap notions shops in suburbs. You can see them from afar. They have piles of plastic homeware spilling out across the pavement in front of the shop windows.
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