Mucky tea towels......

moments_of_sanity

Does anyone know how I can get my tea towels stain free please. I have 2 DD's who think they are general use and as many times as I repeat myself it never seems to sink in!

I wash them in the machine at 30 degrees but they still come out stained, would boiling them in a large pan help and if so what do I put in with them, bicarbonate of soda, washing powder etc?

Many thanks

Justamum

I always wash mine at the hottest wash with a scoop of washing powder, a scoop of powdered oxygen bleach and a scoop of soda crystals. 30 degrees won't get stains out - I do normal washes at 40 because of that.

tessie_bear

hi we dont buy kitchen roll and have some teatowels that are for all purpose wiping up if that makes sense, to get them as clean as i can i wash them at 9o degrees and they are far from spotless but much better than they were. I do a wash with just teatowels when i have a few and drying on the line is suppose to bleach them a bit but fat chance of that at the moment
hth

suzybloo

How about soaking them in napisan which is something that used to be used for cleaning and whitening babies terry nappies.

krustylouise

I wash mine at 90degrees with washing powder, if they're super stained they get demoted to dusters. But if give soda crystals washing powder and 90degrees a go first!

System

Try a hotter wash for tea towels. Saying that my washer has an energy efficient setting whereas it washes intensively but using no heat which is just as good.

Before this i washed my tea towels at a minimum of 60 degrees which kept them white and stain free.

GlynD

Try steeping them in a mild bleach solution before washing.

good_advice

Hiya, I think alot of cotton tea towels will show marks after alot of use. Last year I changed mine to micro fibre. I bought them in the Range 2x pcks of 3. pink,blue and green. They wash well, dry quick and do not need ironing .

Justamum

good_advice wrote: »

They wash well, dry quick and do not need ironing .

Tea towels need ironing :eek::eek: I thought the concertina sides were supposed to be there :rotfl::rotfl:

D&DD

I try to get my lot to use kitchen towel for messy stuff and t towels just for drying up but its like talking to brick walls here so I stick mine on a 90 wash usually too

jackyann

I have a bucket with a spot of bleach in (very dilute, or it rots the fabric). In go tea towels, dish cloths, white face towels and flannels etc.
Then I "boil" wash (95 C on my machine). I used to do it overnight so the electricity was cheap, but now as I have solar heating, I do it during the day.

And actually, I think it makes sense to use these sort of cloths for everything. When I am cooking, I tuck one in my apron and use it for hot stuff, wiping over etc. then fling it in the bucket.
Washing up = dish cloth & proper tea towel, but they all go in the same wash.