Useless Umbra Compact Dish Rack

This Umbra Compact Dish Rack is perhaps the most useless kitchen item I have ever purchased. One website claims “This self-draining compact dish rack from Umbra is a modern essential, especially well-suited to small kitchens with limited counter space.” Ha!

It is indeed an attracive and compact bit of folding plastic – that looks a little bit like translucent fish bones. And it is at a nice angle for draining. The problem is that dishes don’t stand up in it, as advertised, rendering it entirely useless for its stated purpose. Avoid.