trying to save money what do people use instead of kitchen towel

quintwins

missminx007 wrote: »

i stopped buying kitchen towel and use a damp microfibre cloth to go over the window then a dry one to wipe it off, it takes half the time, there is no rubbing for hours to get streaks off. I also use one of the baby's old muslins for draining home made chips and things like that, its a big wide one that I had free but never used.

aww !!!!!! i just gave my last ones away, i wonder if she'd mind if i asked for some back, i gave her about 25 lol

FatVonD

I've never really understood what kitchen towel is actually *for*?? I've never bought it! I use dusters for the windows etc (my mum cuts up flannelette bed sheets to make dusters so I'm never short of them!)

I drain/pat any excess oil of of chips/roast potatoes on a clean tea towel and then wash it.

Penelope_Penguin

FatVonD wrote: »

I've never really understood what kitchen towel is actually *for*??

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quintwins

i just don't wanna mark my tea towels with grease lol, and i don't like the thought of using my manky ones on my food lol

lostinrates

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

How do people wash their cloths and teatowels? I don't like to wash household cloths with other things so I bung them in a bag to save them up for washing but it takes weeks to get enough for a full load, especially as we have a 7kg machine now. Once the bag went all mouldy and I had to throw the lot away. So I tend to use kitchen roll and disposable wipes but I know this is wasteful.

They are one of the few things I hot wash....so I usually let them dry then chuck them in a bucket and I use two-five cleaning cloths and a teatowel and maybe a couple of nappies/cleaning towels ona big day, so I get a small load/big bucket full around a week and a half -fortnight. Then in a hot wash which I also think is good for the washing machine. I don't mind doing this weekly, for the benefit of the washing machine if I don't have enough and I'll also put cloths (that haven't had bleach on them) through on ''normal'' cool washes with things like throws and curtains if they are not for the kitchen. (My clothes are colour coded so I know which are for the kitchen but I usually wash the cloths all together) . I could easily fill a machine a week with clothes...if I dries the kitchen/bathroom floors after washing them, but I'm usually too lazy

Sublime_2

Old, clean, but stained tea towels are great for mopping up spills.

FatVonD

quintwins wrote: »

i just don't wanna mark my tea towels with grease lol, and i don't like the thought of using my manky ones on my food lol

Lol! I've never noticed grease stains but I use the ones with a pile, (more like towels than flat cotton? I think terry might be the word I'm looking for) but my husband has been known to clean his cab with my best teatowels so grease stains are the least of my worries :rotfl:

LittleMissAspie

See we only use 1 teatowel a week (is that gross? maybe I should be changing it twice a week?), a duster will last a couple of weeks before it's covered, and cleaning cloths for bathroom and kitchen will last a couple of weeks as they are only used once a week with me using wipes/tissue mid-week and for spillages. Maybe I should change them more often and/or put them in with the bath towels.

tessie_bear

i use the 17p teatowels that they sell in ikea....whan used i chuck straight in washing machine

BitterAndTwisted

I'm another one who's never bought kitchen-rolls or J-Cloths for that matter. If I want to blot grease on chips (rare, as I don't cook chips) I use newspaper. I'm a great fan of proper dish and floor-cloths. I rinse them in a bit of disinfectant and leave them out to dry and then wash a whole lot of them on their own in the machine.