10 Best Dish Racks of 2025

This is not a comprehensive list of all the dish racks we’ve tested, just what’s still available.

Countertop dish racks

Target’s Brightroom Large Steel Dish Drainer is extremely spacious and can hold many styles of dinnerware. However, it doesn’t come with a drainboard, and the Brightroom drainboard we tested alongside it arrived extremely warped (and it didn’t drain well anyway). The acrylic coating on the bars was also worn off in multiple places, and we didn’t like the lack of compartments in the cutlery holder.

The Yamazaki Wire Dish Rack is pretty but not very functional: The plate prongs couldn’t hold most plates upright, space is limited, and we scuffed the pristine white surface within the first five minutes. Water also collected in the corners of the tray, and the spout is too low for a drop-in sink.

The Kitsure Dish Drying Rack tipped over when we placed pots and pans in it. It also doesn’t drain very well and wouldn’t work with a drop-in sink.

The IKEA Kungsfors Dish Drainer can hold a wide range of items and dries effectively. But it’s excessively large and heavy for countertop use (though it can be mounted to a wall) and lacks a cutlery holder.

The Polder 4-Piece Advantage Dish Rack System can hold a substantial amount of dishes, but the wires screeched every time we loaded thicker dishes into it, and its open sides sometimes failed to prevent dishes from falling out.

The all-plastic Sterilite 2-Piece Large Sink Set drained poorly because the tray wasn’t angled enough.

The Yamazaki Two-Tier Wire Dish Rack is a nice-looking, space-saving option, but water from the top tier dripped onto the lower rack, leaving dishes on the bottom rack wet after eight hours. Also, the drain tray is flat, so it pools water rather than angling it toward the spout to flow out properly.

The PremiumRacks Professional Dish Rack is difficult to assemble. Though it has the most space of any model we tested, we wouldn’t trust it to hold fragile or heavy dishes, as it felt flimsy.

The IKEA Ordning Dish Drainer required annoying, fiddly assembly. It refused to sit flat on the counter, it required extraordinarily high clearance, and it couldn’t handle large items. The rack’s perforated bottom requires a mat underneath (but it doesn’t include one).

The OXO Good Grips Compact Dish Rack couldn’t support sheet pans or thick-lipped plates or bowls. Water from larger items dripped outside of the tray, and plates tended to roll out the sides. This rack’s tray also doesn’t have a built-in drain, so water just pools.

Water collected in the silverware caddy of the OXO Good Grips Aluminum Dish Rack. Many owners also complain about water leaking onto their countertops, and although that didn’t happen during our eight-hour drying test, it did when we poured three cups of water onto the rack.

The Neat-O Deluxe Chrome-Plated Steel Small Dish Drainer requires you to purchase a drainboard separately, and it wasn’t sturdy at all — when we loaded the silverware first, the whole rack tipped over into the sink.

The Umbra Tub’s high sides allow for easy stacking, but they don’t do much to promote air circulation. We also had concerns about this model’s inadequately grippy feet and its slick surface, which sometimes formed a seal with wet glasses or bowls placed upside down on it. Lastly, this model drains through an opening, not a spout, so it would not work for many overmount sinks.

Collapsible dish racks

An X-shaped collapsible model, the Better Houseware Folding Dish Rack does not come with a drainboard. And though the rubber-coated wire is gentle on dishes, the coating was a little too effective in practice: Our dishes slipped out of the slots, and the catch mechanism that was supposed to hold the rack open would slip out as well, causing the whole thing to collapse.

The OXO Good Grips Foldaway Dish Rack has well-considered design features and a sturdy build, but it couldn’t hold nearly as much as our other picks. Its inflexible plastic plate dividers couldn’t hold up pots, pans, or large vessels, and using the remaining space for bigger items required precarious stacking.

In- and over-sink dish racks

The Umbra Sinkin needed an annoyingly close fit in the sink to be adequately supported, and we found the utensil holder unstable. The rack’s slots also weren’t compatible with some types of dishes.

Owner reviews reported the ClosetMaid Over the Sink Drainer to be durable. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with a utensil holder, and it’s too small to be useful for more than a single person.

The Polder Expandable In-Sink Dish Rack filled up fast and wasn’t able to hold a variety of dishes. For example, we couldn’t safely put glasses in it alongside large, heavy items. This rack also lacks a utensil holder, and the utensils we laid in the basket fell through the mesh.

The Better Houseware Adjustable Dish Drainer does not come with a utensil holder, though the manufacturer sells a small one separately.

The all-plastic Progressive International’s PrepWorks Collapsible Dish Rack had a utensil divider that felt flimsy and didn’t always stay in place, and we found that the dish slots didn’t work well with thicker plates and bowls. Reviewers say it eventually cracks.

The IKEA Lillhavet Multifunctional Dish Rack arrived slightly out of kilter — it wouldn’t sit straight in its drain tray or over the sink. It also could hold only conventional porcelain dishes upright, and it wasn’t able to accommodate any cookware that we tried.

The Antopy Sink Dish Drying Rack is sturdy and can hold all styles of plates, but we worry about rust building up on the extendable arms. The cutlery holder is too small for large-handled items, and the drain holes have rough edges that are likely to get gunky.

Drying mats

The S&T Inc. Dish Drying Mat XL dried well and folds easily. But it arrived with a horrible plasticky smell, and while it’s the same size as our drying mat pick, it costs almost twice as much.

The IKEA Nysköljd Dish Drying Mat must be air-dried. It’s also small and gets oversaturated quickly.

The Umbra UDry Dish Drying Rack with Drying Mat is a mini rack and mat in one. The rack worked well, as it offers enough prongs to hold a household’s worth of dishes, but the mat wicked water to its edges and bottom, leaving our countertop damp.

The Dorai Dish Pad is made from diatomaceous earth. During testing, this sleek mat dried within an hour. However, water got trapped between the removable silicone mesh and our dishes, leaving the rims of our cups and bowls wet.

Roll-over racks

The Bellemain Over Sink Drying Rack is the strongest roll-over rack we tested, barely bending underneath our 26.5-pound kettlebell. But it’s on the smaller side, and it’s frequently unavailable.

The Sur La Table Over-the-Sink Drying Rack looks like a lower-quality version of the Kraus rack we recommend, for nearly $20 more. The seams around the bars are messy, with excess silicone sticking out, and the rack bent quite a bit under our 26.5-pound kettlebell.

Despite its claim to support “up to 100 lbs,” the Ohuhu Over Sink Dish Drying Rack bent severely under our kettlebell.

The Dorai Over the Sink Dish Pad is an expensive roll-over rack with a small dish pad that sits on your countertop. The dish pad dries quickly, and the rack remains sturdy under heavy weight, but we have concerns about mold buildup.

This article was edited by Amanda Arnold and Marilyn Ong. This guide builds on the work of Haley Sprankle.