Poll: Poll: Do you store glasses and mugs rim down or rim up?

[Participant]

One of life's great conundrums to ponder at 3am after your child comes in and jumps on your balls, and prompted by one of the images in the 'I have my own bar' thread...

Do you store drinking vessels upright or upside down, and why?

Simple poll if possible please mods.

 

[Sankari]

Upside down. More hygienic.

 

[sigma]

I like it both ways


Wait, what?

 

[Sankari]

 

[Angilion]

At about 60 degrees because I'm a weirdo Actually, it's because that's my estimate of the angle that mugs hand on a mug tree. Which I don't use any more, but never mind.

Usually, I store them rim down because I'm told to. That's how it's done in a bar and almost all the drinking vessels I put away are glasses in a bar. Maybe it's more hygienic. I don't know. Probably is in that context because the glasses are on smooth plastic spacer mesh that's frequently sterilised and put on shelves that are frequently sterilised.

 

[Rroff]

A lot of people put them rim down in my experience.

Our glasses have ended up rim up while mugs rim down due to an odd one where after washing however well dried if the glasses were immediately put rim down you could taste the washing up liquid faintly when drinking from them (which was nasty) while for some reason the mugs didn't exhibit that - since getting a dishwasher that problem no longer happens but out of habit they've remained that way around. (Also didn't happen if the glasses were left upright for 2-3 hours before putting them away).

Never could figure that one out.

 

[Amp34]

Upside down. More hygienic.

Because the part of the glass you drink from is more hygienic when pressed against a shelf that probably hasn’t been washed for months?

 

[ci_newman]

Rim up, for home use i see no reason to go rim down. It would just trap moisture

 

[Rikk82]

Because the part of the glass you drink from is more hygienic when pressed against a shelf that probably hasn’t been washed for months?

Rim up for me.

 

[cheesyboy]

Our glasses are rim up, mugs rim down.

I remember parents were always rim up until my mum found a house spider nesting in the bottom of a glass. Rim down ever since

 

[DJ85]

Because the part of the glass you drink from is more hygienic when pressed against a shelf that probably hasn’t been washed for months?

Why I go rim up.

 

[Housey]

Good child, a fiver well spent.

 

[Skorpion]

Cups urpight...if dusty just quick rinse then teatowel dry before use.

 

[JBuk]

Upright

 

[Scam]

Because the part of the glass you drink from is more hygienic when pressed against a shelf that probably hasn’t been washed for months?

This. Not sure exactly what people expect to gather in a glass when it's stored upright in a cupboard and taken out and used frequently?

 

[tnx]

I have the big mugs upside down with the smaller ones sitting on top the right way up.

There must be nearly twenty mugs/cups in my cupboard but I always use the same one every time I have a coffee.

 

[NewGamer11]

Either is good. You can just give it a rim job if you're worried about cleanliness.

 

[Trifid]

Rim up. If it's been sitting there a while, I give it a good blow first.

 

[m4rmite]

Mugs down glasses up. Lord knows why.

 

[Schizo]

Poll added.