Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

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I separate the laundry - dark colours (school trousers etc), whites (school blouses, underwear etc) , towels, tea towels and dishcloths (they go on a boil wash with a long cycle wash) and finally mixed colours. I don't really use cleaning cloths as such, the tea towels get roped in for spills and mop ups! I have paper disposable (eco friendly) cloths on a roll for dusting and polishing jobs.

Am I missing something? Tea towels are used for drying crockery, cutlery etc. that has just been washed and probably drained for a bit, and is clean. Why should a 60 degree wash or bleach be necessary?

annodomini- yes, things go in dishwasher- but I use cloths for cleaning/drying worktops and sinks, etc. Much more ecological than using wipes, etc.

PS I also put dish brushes in the dishwasher. One in, one out.

I think I am fairly clean. I use teatowels to dry clean glasses and the occasional pan. Can’t think they need any special washing they haven’t been near anything dirty.
Dish cloths, well I have loads but I don’t use them for dishes I use them to wipe down surfaces.l I bought rolls of bamboo wipes and use two of those together. Wipe down the surfaces and put them in the wash with anything else. If I’ve been cooking with anything dodgy, chicken for example, I pop them in a bowl with a bit of bleach, leave, rinse then wash.

I’m trying not to use paper towels and use the bamboo wipes for mopping up too.

Why not? People seem to be very exercised about germs these days. I sling the dishcloths in with the usual wash.

welbeck

kittylester, do you have any sisters left ?

I know!! I should proof read. I wish I had sone sisters and then they might do the dusting - my brothers are useless!!

I don't do much washing up as such. Most things go in the dishwasher. For pots and pans with stuck-on food, I use a scourer called 'Washup Wizz' which goes in the dishwasher too.

Why bleach and then wash? Surely only a rinse is needed if the bleach has done its work.

I used to soak dishcloths in the sink in bleach nightly but now I use anti bac pads or sponges and put them in the dishwasher nightly
All other cleaning cloths go in with normal washing cycle

MawB2

welbeck

kittylester, do you have any sisters left ?

I love that Maw. .
I remember a thread like this when I first joined Gransnet back in 2013. How often do you wash your teatowels?
Followed by "what's a teatowel?" etc.
As an older Gran I didn't have a multifunctional washing machine until recently.
eg what's laundry? only nappies. So who cares about cleaning cloths?

I put the sink sponge and green scrapper both which I use to wipe, yes wipe and scrape clean everything, that goes into the dishewasher. Then, they themselves go into the dishwasher. I can’t stand the way my DGC fill the dishwasher with food on the plates.

Put them on a 60c wash with the towels and tea towels.

I can't get on with the sponges.
My grandson complains about it, but I'm never sure what to do with dingy sponges.
Wash them? I do, but they still look greyish and dingy.

tanith

Not cloths, arrgghh predictive text

So glad not clothes -especially at Jigsaw prices!!!

use cloths for environmental reasons - much less rubbish/waste.

I wash towels, tea towels etc. together on a hot cottons wash. Sometimes with bed linen if there is room.
The clothes we wear I always do by themselves.

Not cloths, arrgghh predictive text

I use sponges mot clothes and they go in the dishwasher on a hot wash.

given my lack of domestic acumen, it's just as well that i've never had any sisters.

I wash them altogether washing is washing
I wash everything at 30 But then I don’t have any men’s white shirts white towels bedclothes or much apart from a couple of summer tops even my knicks are brightly coloured

I bleach my dishcloths, in washing up bowl and add the small drainer ( midsection of sink unit) and cutlery drainer into the bowl too. All get a good soak, then use the water to clean the sink/drainer and then a rinse. So the whole lot cleaned.