It can be an unpleasant surprise if you are emptying your dishwasher's cutlery basket only to spot brown discolouration on knives and forks - or indeed anywhere in the appliance. Don't worry, though, ...

Question: Johnnie, I hope you can suggest something. I need to repair the baskets in my 3-year-old dishwasher. The plastic coating has worn away on some of the posts, most noticeably in the bottom ...

So you dropped a few hundred or more on that stainless steel cutlery set – do you really want to risk cleaning it in the dishwasher? Will it survive the wash? And if it says dishwasher-safe, why do ...