Thanks to my resourceful husband, I have just saved up to $60 on the cost of a new cutlery basket for my dishwasher. My old cutlery basket was badly damaged, with large holes mostly caused by sharp knives. I was shocked to discover that a replacement basket was not only difficult to source, but could cost up to $60! When I told my husband, his thrifty side appeared and he suggested we use some mesh type plastic to replace the worn sections on the old basket. We went to the local supermarket and bought a cutlery drainer – the type you use on the sink, ours is made by Starmaid – for $2.99. It has a lattice type plastic on four sides and the bottom; hubby cut the plastic lattice with a Stanley knife to fit and used plastic cable ties to secure the new plastic pieces into the six bottom sections of the damaged basket. The holes in the plastic are large enough to let water flow but small enough to not let cutlery slip through. It’s also strong enough to withstand the heat from the bottom section of the dishwasher.
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