A housewifery question re tea towels

I just chuck them in. Never thought of doing anything different.

An odd sort of question. Is it serious or a set-up?

I do them with the bathroom towels, not a boil wash, but usually 60 degrees or 50.

I definitley use the "chuck it in" method jingle I do loads of washing and simply don't have the time to clart on with seperate loads for this and that. My sister washes all her undies by hand (what?) too much time on her hands that's what I say.

I also do the Stuff it all in together method but only the "better ones" go on the line

Chuck them in with towels on a hot wash. Very few things need to be boiled!

Chuck 'em in with towels, bathmats, dishcloths, floorcloths and hankies. Rarely use tea towels for their intended purpose apart from drying/polishing non-dishwasherable glasses! I have, therefore, quite a stash of reasonable looking ones and two from Cadbury World on the wall!

I use an amazing amount of dishcloths though - probably 2/3 per day and they must be cotton!

A 60° wash made my towels go cracker shaped. Label says 40. Does the detergent do the trick, without the heat.

Gorki this is really serious.

I use loads: big family and no dishwasher. Everyone always taking a clean one when it is their turn to dry up..
I only ever wash them on 30 which I find perfectly adequate and no-one has suffered yet !

Right. Thank you. The Thread need go no further.

I wash everything at 40. Only things I separate are DH work clothes. Dishcloths I soak in fairly strong bleach solution first then 'chuck em in'

Aaaaahhhh we were only just getting going jingle

Oh no! Feel free!

I wash mine with other cottons at 60 degrees, as I reckon they need something of a hot wash to rid the bacteria.
Just on a related note, my brand new washing machine began to grow mould on the door seal. Very upsetting, until I read somewhere that this is a result of using cool washes. So every 6 weeks or so I do a 95 degree wash with dishcloths, bathroom cloths etc all pushed in. No problems with mould now!

Nina there are garments of DH' s that I wash separately. But we won't go into that.

#dirtylittleman

I'm not sure why one would need to really hot wash tea towels. One uses them to dry up clean washing up...not mop the floor. Mine go in with the whites/pale wash at 40.

Yes Pollhaid there is a lot to be said for that.

Picturing a little old man resembling Old man Steptoe jingle which I am sure is not what your DH looks like at all.

Maybe I should n' t have put that particular post up. He's not really dirty. Poo

MInd you I do change them every couple of days and use a dishwasher for the bulk of the stuff.

True, Pollaidh. When I had a guest house and a cafe, hygiene rules said to wash towels and teatowels at as hot a temperature as your machine would allow. A temperature of over 55 gets rid of dust mites so I wash bedding at 60.
I wash towels and teatowels at 90 and that's usually once a week to keep the washing machine mould-free. j08 why do want your teatowels to be a decent shape. Just do not use the good ones that people buy you to look at. Put them on the wall.
Staph A thrives at 30 degrees.

I DID NOT TYPE THAT WORD ON THE END THERE!!!

This bloomin' Kindle is determined to get me into trouble!

I do a monthly 90° empty wash with the stuff the engineers use... seems to do the trick. I buy a year's supply of the stuff (12 sachets) which costs around £1 a month.

jend No, it's my towels that went cracker shaped. When I washed them at 60. They are John Lewis ones too! I think the decorative insert a few inches from either end shrunk.

I think she said cracker-shaped towels, not teatowels. Is it pulled in at the non-terry-towelling strip that they put near the ends, J08 If you can be bothered to stretch those strips straight while the towels are still damp, they will dry without the gathers. If not, does it matter?