NITORI Dish Rack SUS review

A 26 x 19 x 6cm stainless wire plate cradle that fits inside a sink bowl or on a shelf. It holds plates and nothing else, and for a small kitchen that is exactly the point.

What is it, exactly?

Worth being precise, because the product photo can mislead. This is not a standing dish rack. It is a compact stainless wire plate cradle, 26 x 19 x 6 cm and weighing 180 grams, that holds plates upright on edge. In NITORI’s own listing photo it sits on a separate rail shelf, which is a different product; what you are buying is the cradle itself.

That changes where it goes. At this size and weight it drops inside a sink bowl, onto a shelf, into a drawer, or onto the narrowest strip of counter in the kitchen. A standing rack has to live permanently on the counter, and this does not.

Does the material hold up?

This is the strongest thing about it. SUS is the Japanese standards designation for stainless steel, and it means the rack is bare metal with no finish over it.

That matters more than it sounds. Nearly every dish rack in this category fails the same way: the powder coat or chrome plating chips at a weld or a corner, water reaches the steel underneath, and rust spreads out from that point. Bare stainless has no coating to fail, so its rust resistance does not depend on you keeping a finish intact. In a kitchen where the rack sits permanently damp, that is the specification that decides whether you are buying this again in two years.

It also ships assembled, which removes the loose-joint wobble that flat-packed racks develop.

What does it not do?

Three things, and they are all consequences of the size rather than defects.

It holds plates only. There are no cup supports and no cutlery caddy, so mugs, glasses, and spoons need somewhere else to go. The 6cm frame height gives no clearance for a bowl to sit in or a tall glass to lean against. And the small footprint takes one short row of plates, so a family’s worth of dishes dries in batches.

None of that is a criticism if you know what you are buying. It is a criticism if you expected a dish rack in the usual sense.

Is it sulit?

Around ₱329 as of August 3, 2026. Check the latest price on Shopee. That is cheap for stainless from a named Japanese retailer with its own Philippine stores and a published product spec, right down to the 0.18kg weight and the fact that it comes assembled. That level of documentation is rare in this category.

The record is thin at 9 ratings, so there is not much owner history yet. But for a piece with no moving parts, no coating, and no assembly, there is correspondingly little to go wrong.

Who should buy it

Buy this if you wash for one or two people, want a plate rack that lives inside the sink or on a shelf rather than occupying counter permanently, and you value stainless that will not rust out. If it needs to dry a household’s plates, bowls, cups, and cutlery together, buy a full rack instead.

See how it ranks in our best dish racks in the Philippines roundup, or work out which type suits your kitchen in our dish rack buying guide.

Alternatives to consider

Need a full rack in the same rust-proof material for not much more? The Masflex stainless steel dish rack is the one to compare. Want NITORI’s slim standing drainer with a cutlery caddy and a drain spout? The NITORI 1-tier slim dish drainer is the step up.