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

marmiterulesok

jinky67 wrote: »

I dont use tea towels either, they are thoroughly unhygienic

I have to disagree.

If you change them daily,wash them regularly and don't use them as hand towels,then they are perfectly hygienic.(I have separate hand towels in the kitchen.).

What do you use to dry your dishes?

lostinrates

marmiterulesok wrote: »

I have to disagree.

If you change them daily,wash them regularly and don't use them as hand towels,then they are perfectly hygienic.(I have separate hand towels in the kitchen.).

What do you use to dry your dishes?

When I was a little girl of 11 and we did home econmics at school we were taught it was more hygenic to leave to dry than to dry wth a tea towel.

which is what I do.(mainly, everyday there is something I need again immediately)

BUT...I have to say in a house where pets wander through the kitchen and people tramp through in wellies I often doubt that's right here:o

aloiseb

Where I work, they provide kitchen roll. It is meant to be used to stand delicate things on to dry, after rinsing in warm water.

However, there is usually none left, because some members of staff use it to blow their noses on!

bluebag

I use a squeegee for cleaning windows, really fast. I use microfibre and a plain water spray for mirrors. Spills and other cleaning I use cheap face flannels( 6 for a £1 ages ago) and just chuck them in the wash.

I use kitchen roll and a milton spray to go over the loo daily.

GreyQueen

I've heard that commercial kitchens aren't allowed to use non-disposble cloths, but I'm not sure if that's true or not, does anyone out there know for sure?

A professional at a laundry service which does very high-spec cleaning for the pharmaceutical industry told my mother than almost nothing (bug wise) can survive being laundered at 72 degrees. So, boiling your cloths the OS way is hygenic.

Like large parts of the UK, I'm in a hard-water area, and if I allow certain things to air-dry on the dish-drainer, which is my preferred option, I'd get stains on glassware, cutlery and my stainless steel pans, so these get dried and the rest can whistle.

My friend and neighbour, known on this board as SuperGran, is a retired nurse, specifically a retired theatre sister. To say she's a clean freak is to underestimate the situation. She uses kitchen roll for EVERYTHING; wiping minor spill on counter tops, drying dishes, you name it, she kitchen-rolls it. She's working hard at reducing her expenditures in a variety of household bills but has a blind spot about how much she's spending on this item alone.

I keep my nose out of her business as how a person organises her kitchen life is very much her own business........

leanneh

Just wondered if anyone has any ideas as I seem to get through loads of the stuff.

I use it for wiping my fingers / spills in the kitchen, when I have washed up the milk powder dispensers I finish draining them on it, when I use the same mug in the day I rinse it out and then dry it with a kitchen towel.

Doesnt sound like a lot but somehow I seem to use a lot.....

LollopyBear

I use one mug during the day, but I never dry it after rinsing it out! I rinse, shake and then refill.

Do you have any tea-towels? Rags? Cut up old t-shirts? If you are worried about hygiene of using something more than once for drying/mopping up spills, then if you have a stack of rags to hand you can use one and then put it in the washing pile. They aren't going to add too much to your laundry, but will save you time/environment in paper towels.

Pink.

Hi leanneh,

Welcome to MSE

This existing thread should give you some ideas:

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

I'll add your thread to it later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

rachbc

depends on the task - for dishes and drying stuff in I use a tea twoel replaced daily. For draining fatty stuff I use different tea towels saved for that job, for sticky fingers cheap flannels, for wiping spills just washable dish cloths

rosekitten

I always keep a look out for cheap packets of serviettes
they are often reduced recently bought 20, 2ply packs in Asda,
christmas design on them but 20 in a packet 10p a pack
they lasted ages as I bought 16 packets.

IKEA do a packet of 100 large white 3 ply serviettes for £1.39
thats the regular price and a pack of them lasts a lot longer
than a twin packet of kitchen roll