Tea towels

faerie~spangles

I use mine for wiping up spills, to ...

BitterAndTwisted

The only thing I don't usually do with mine is dry dishes with them.

jamespir

i use them to get food out the oven

faerie~spangles

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

The only thing I don't usually do with mine is dry dishes with them.

Drying dishes is the last thing I'd do...

Kiwisaver_2

Drying my hands, get dishes out of the oven and sometimes to give cutlery a quick rub to polish off water marks.

Molly41

Well I dont use mine to mop up doggy pee like the woman did in the programme I just watched on Catch Up TV - The Syndicate. Now that was very enlightening!

Toxic_Lemon

I've always wondered why they're called Tea Towels. :think:

coldcazzie

Ours largely dry our hands. They very rarely get used to dry the dishes - I prefer to let them air dry.

I have a separate pile of terry nappies and old handtowels that have gone grey that are used to mop up drink spills, wee, mud etc.

Dontknowanymore

I use mine to get stuff out the oven, and to dry the worktops when I have washed them down.
I only dry dishes etc with a CLEAN one if I need something right away and it is still wet.
I have about 17 tea towels and they all get cleaned regularly, I can't stand when you see someone wiping their hands and sometimes face on one that they use to dry dishes with _pale_

jpscloud

Mine are washed with a little bleach, and when freshly washed I use them to cover cooling food, wrap bread etc. and most of the jobs you'd use kitchen paper for. My dishes air dry but if I need something that's just been washed I use a fresh tea towel to dry it.

For germy spills and thrills, I use old towels torn up into small cloths, then bleach the burggery out of them in the washing machine.

BitterAndTwisted

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

I can't stand when you see someone wiping their hands and sometimes face on one that they use to dry dishes with _pale_

Which is why I bagsied my granny's dinky little kitchen hand-towels when we were sorting my mother's things after she died. My sisters didn't have any use for them. I wonder what they use to dry their hands on?

I like having kitchen textiles like oven-gloves, tea and hand-towels, dish and floor-cloths which can all be laundered so I have no use for rolls of kitchen-paper and J-clothy-type things which I've never bought.