Kitchen Towel - Do you use it?

thriftmonster

I buy the roll made from recycled paper and try to use as little as poss. Draining fried food is all I use it for. Ds1 uses it occasionally if the dog is sick - I can't do sick as it makes me retch as well so I can't quibble about what ds1 uses - he's only 11. Otherwise we use cut up school polo shirts for most things - when they have got to the grey stage each June - and the Aertex material is very effective.

this_is_it

When my mil was still here she used to live with us she used to get through tons of it but she used it for everything to put sandwhiches in as tissues it used to drive me mad as i saw it as a waste plus it wouldnt last 5 minutes with the kids. I use micro fibre clothes and also have a rag bag with oh old work shirts in it use them loads for spills etc

moanymoany

I have kitchen towel in the house, but I now use much less than I used to.

I saw on Aggie and Kim that it is a good idea to have a bowl of water with a drop of washing up liquid and a drop of bleach to put your cloths in. I now do this and I know my cloths are clean and when I wipe down the surfaces they are clean. I wash the cloths with the tea towels.

DH loves kitchen towel. :rolleyes:

Garnet_Gem

I use kitchen roll but always buy BOGOF or special offers. Lidls have good strong stuff at low cost too. I use rags when dusting, floorwashing and cleaning the car but since seeing a scientific programme about germs in the kitchen, I feel that kitchen rolls are best for cleanliness. I don't grudge the money for them and I recycle them through composting.

student100

My personal take is that hygiene comes before the environment. But that said I don't use much kitchen roll at all - a roll lasts maybe two months.

For most cleaning tasks I use cloths, rags or old tea-towels (though I don't wash J-type cloths in the machine - they're disposable, and the old rags are washed separate from clothes for hygiene reasons - normally in the same load as the bathroom mat). For the sake of hygiene, kitchen roll is used when necessary for food contact (e.g. absorbing fat), wiping up small spills from the floor that don't need a floor cloth (I'm sure the energy, water etc, not to mention money, used to make one piece of kitchen roll is far less than that of washing a floor cloth or old rag), and tasks where you need a really clean dry absorbent wipe (like cleaning the computer). I have a small kitchen and bathroom so for washing those floors I use one or two pieces of wet soapy kitchen roll, wipe over and pick up all the dust and throw the whole lot away - again more efficient than having to wash floor cloths.

larmy16

I use old rags for most cleaning but there are occasions like when the cat is sick that kitchen roll is handy. At a boot sale I recently bought six rolls of massage couch paper for a couple of quid. I have been using these in place of kitchen towel. They have a serrated edge to tear the paper off and are very absorbant. Still only use it for jobs when a rag will not do.

vivaladiva

We use kitchen roll -3rd child is unbelievably clumsy! But OH brings in the genuine Kimwipe industrial type stuff. The tri-ply is amazing for spills and lasts for ages. We must use less than 1 roll per month.