I found it faster and less steps. Pulling the utensils out of tray is basically one or two at a time and slowed down because of watching out for fork tines and knife points. Once on counter you can grab say 4 or 5 forks at a time. Ended up about half as much movement and about half time as the old way. Granted it's only about 15 seconds time savings twice a week, but i thought it was cool.