Kitchen towels.

Same as most of you, paper towels for hand washing and tea towel changed every other day, because it’s only used for wiping things off that come out of the dishwasher.
I don’t like the idea of a towel in the kitchen.
I have an enormous stack of tea towels, because there were six of us living here over lockdown, and the dishwasher packed up.
I remember saying to a friend one day, that I had just hung thirty tea towels on the line.

I came to Gransnet and was so pleased to leave behind all the competitive hygiene threads. 😔

Two clean tea towels and dishcloth daily. Used for drying up the odd cup, plate etc. Hands washed at kitchen sink, dried with either kitchen paper or tea towel whichever is nearest.
I wouldn’t dream of going from kitchen to bathroom to wash my hands, I’m forever washing them when working in kitchen.
Don’t know how I’ve survived 70 + years with my hygiene standards 😳

I use kitchen roll to dry my hands. May not be environmentally friendly (though neither is washing multiple towels) but it’s hygienic. Tea towels for drying dishes if not put in the dishwasher or left to drain.

I am slightly horrified at the almost paranoi surrounding hygiene in these threads. As for the over-use of those paper kitchen towels, do people not realise how damagingtheya re for the environmnet as they ALLhave plasic in them?

When I still lived at home, my Dad would get really angry whenI tried to explain (use as an excuse), why I left the coffee cups from having friends in, left draining by the sink, in terms of being healthier!!!! I was told, in noi uncertain terms, to use the tea towel immediately,

I find it amazing how I have managed to survive for nearly 82 years with my dreadful unhygenic lifestyle. I did NOT wash or isolate my shopping/parcels, pandemic.etc at any point during the pandemic. Keep a towel in my kitchen for up to a week at a time for drying my hands when they are wet. Use cotton tea towels also, usually one every other day as they are also used like a bib for me as I eat my meals on a tray on my lap Do rinse my hands before preparing food, in the kitchen sink, but no soap used.

Do wish that people would think about effect on environmnt every time they take a sheet of that paper towel.

Paranoia? I didn’t wash or isolate shopping etc either but I always wash my hands with soap and water before handling food and make no apology for using a sheet of kitchen roll to dry them.

We use 8-10 kitchen towels a day.

Small stack of 12x12" white (so we know when they are stain-free enough for use) cotton, absorbent towels that get used for hands, coffee making, worktop spills.

Then into disinfectant soaking bucket in laundry room sink.

I have always had kitchen towels to dry wet hands in the kitchen and wash them when they need it.

Argymargy: Oh Yes!!!

Mine are very handy, they're on the floor mopping up a glass of water I knocked over 🙂
At least it was only water this time.

@argymargy, indeed. Waiting for competitive eating chicken threads now…

Joining the apparently unhygienic tribe; I dry my hands on a tea towel, which rarely get used for anything else, and which gets washed whenever I remember. Haven’t poisoned myself or anyone else yet.

Paper towels are a significant contributor to deforestation, as well as having other negative environmental impacts, so I avoid using them as far as possible.

Towel for drying hands. Paper towels for wiping things out before washing in dish washer. Tea cloths to lift things out or drying.

I wonder that I survived childhood when I look back at my mother's hygiene habits. She had one towel and one tea towel in the kitchen which were used for everything from drying her hands to wiping the baby's face to getting hot dishes out of the oven.
She lived to be 101 and I am still here at 84.

I use small guest towels to dry my hands in the kitchen.

That reminds me of something. Does anyone remember in the old days when the toilet was separate from the bathroom?There was often a small towel hung behind the door .I still don't know what it's purpose was.

My ex mother in law had one of those. I always wondered but didn’t like to ask. I’m not sure I’d have liked the answer …

The competitive hygiene threads are being edged out by the competitive 'think of the environment' threads.

🤣🤣🤣

Galaxy

The competitive hygiene threads are being edged out by the competitive 'think of the environment' threads.

Add a third.

I'm frugal, don't want to buy endless paper roll for little children's messes. Cotton squares washed are far less amusing than big rolls with "swords" in the middle. "Let me see how fast I can unroll and get to the sword"

I have to dry everything that’s been washed in the dishwasher. Is it just me that has to do that?

How do people know that kitchen paper is more hygienic than a kitchen towel? I suggest that people don't know this at all but have been conned by paper roll sellers.

Some people's kitchen towels may be unhygienic because they don't wash them often enough but if you are using a clean towel it is not unhygienic.

I used to keep a towel in the kitchen but didn’t like that if we had visitors it was being used by several people and got damp very quickly and needed replacing. Didn’t seem very hygienic. Nobody has conned me into using kitchen roll.

Changing the towel when it gets wet is quite easy, I find, especially if one keeps spares handy in a drawer.

Just out of curiosity, do people who use paper towels put them in their recycling bin?

We currently use old bath towels as kitchen towels for drying hands. They are hung spread out on a rail and there's always a dry bit somewhere 😉. We don't seem to have caught anything unhygienic off them even when there are several people using them.

I couldn’t manage without a towel in the kitchen. I rinse my hands so many times when cooking I would get through a whole jumbo kitchen roll a day if I used just that.

Baggs same here.