Glass cloth tea towels? Simply the best I think.

I am another one who does not get particulary anxious about germs on tea towels. Well within reason, I would not mop the floor with one. I have never yet caused anyone to be ill as a result of poor food hygiene .

I always use linen tea towels, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to find, and very expensive.
Glass tea towels, intended for drying glass and china without leaving smears, are made of natural linen (I think) and have a red or blue stripe down the middle. Now frequently seen on upmarket cushions and upholstery.

Now there's a surprise.

"tea towels carry too many germs "
A few years ago there was a very long thread about this, something like "How often do you change your teatowel?"
The arguments became quite heated

Er, what is a glass cloth tea towel?

We have a dishwasher - have done for ages - that is used all the time, but I still use tea towels. Sometimes need to wash and dry something in a hurry, or for various things that can't go in the dishwasher.

Not long ago I went to a kitchen design person ((never did re do ancient kitchen though) who bossily told me I wouldn't need a draining board if I had a dishwasher.
Er, yes, I most certainly would!

I don't know why 1974cookie really needs tea towels when she has just bought a new dishwasher

‘Too many germs’ ha strange how I m still alive
Yes probably a wind up I guess

Windup??
Could anyone really get excited about this /bother to post on GN /expect others to become involved?

I let things drain or use dishwasher tea towels carry too many germs however clean you are,

I find Terry ones do a good job. I don't dry much, I let most things drain. I don't have a dishwasher.

willsmadnan

Sorry, but what miraculous tea towels are you referring to? Don't the bog standard linen/cotton ones do the same thing?? Can't really get ecstatic about something so mind -bendingly ordinary. Maybe I'm missing something

I always had a problem keeping them stain free, so I gave up on them in the end.