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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 9, 2023 23:41:53 GMT
I have way too many (what we call) tea towels, maybe about 40 or so. A lot of them are colour co-ordinated with my kitchen, and I always have one hung over the oven handle. For actually drying dishes I prefer the raggedy old ugly towelling ones, but I don't like them to be out on display. I am trying to encourage my son NOT to use my nice ones to wipe his grotty hands on.
Mine don't get very wet, because I let the dishes air dry in the rack, or in the dishwasher. So they just get a quick wipe over if there is any moisture left on them. I will wash them whenever I put a load of washing on.
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Post by malibou on Apr 10, 2023 0:00:18 GMT
9. I don't dry dishes, so mine are for hands only. At the end of the day I throw it in the hamper and they get washed once a week.
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Post by SuPeaNatural on Apr 10, 2023 0:21:03 GMT
No dishwasher here, it's just me on my own so I hand wash. I use a sponge to wash the dishes, they come in a 4 pack, 4.5' x 6" x 1/2" in size. One of my daughters in law uses dish cloths to wash her dishes, but I prefer the sponges.
Then I use a tea towel to dry them, I've tried terry towel types, but don't like those, I prefer woven cotton ones. I have about 10 - 12 on hand. I only wash up once a day, so use the teatowel 2 or 3 times before getting a fresh one.
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Post by maryannscraps on Apr 10, 2023 0:48:05 GMT
I have maybe 10 dish towels and 10? Swedish dish cloths I use to wipe down messes. I change them out every day. I also do laundry almost every day.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Apr 10, 2023 1:04:25 GMT
I have no idea the actual number, but it's a lot. We have a dishwasher, but do quite a bit of handwashing too with items I don't like to put in the dishwasher. I go through at least one dish towel every day, but most days two. My friends know how much I love funny ones with pithy sayings so I have a lot like that!
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Apr 10, 2023 1:06:13 GMT
I have a couple dozen. I love the waffle type towels from crate and barrel. Once they are wet, they go in the wash.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 10, 2023 1:15:05 GMT
I don’t typically use a towel to dry dishes unless I need the thing again immediately. For the most part I let any hand washed dishes air dry because I’m lazy like that. Even with the dishwasher washed items that don’t get totally dry, we prop the door open and leave it that way until the dishes have air dried and then they can just be put away, so I don’t hand dry dishes much at all. Sorry, I don't mean to be quoting you everywhere, but you said exactly what we do. Hand-drying dishes is foreign to me. Even when we handwash a few dishes we use the dishwasher as a drainer, so no need for tons of dish towels. Same here. I have a seasonal towel on the oven but rarely use it. I have several bar towels on the counters and have a lot of them. When they get dirty I just take them to the laundry room and wash these and the one on the oven weekly. I have two drawers full of kitchen towels.
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Post by pjaye on Apr 10, 2023 1:55:53 GMT
I am trying to encourage my son NOT to use my nice ones to wipe his grotty hands on. So you've finally been brainwashed by the peas and renounced your Aussie citizenship If you dislocate a hip flushing the toilet - don't come to me for help.
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Post by luckyjune on Apr 10, 2023 2:34:57 GMT
I purged the kitchen towels when we moved to the beach and still ended up with 18 or so. I'm about to buy new ones that match our kitchen remodel. Those ones will be in regular rotation and the others will be stashed in the hall linen closet until I ask myself, "Why do I have all of these dish towels that never get used..."
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 10, 2023 12:45:00 GMT
I have about 20-25 in a kitchen drawer. I love pretty dish towels, so I buy new ones frequently and move the worn ones to the rag basket. Me, too. I have some decorative flour sack type towels I hang from my oven door. I folded mine kind of like Marie Kondo folds t-shirts and lined up in 2 rows in my drawer. It works great and looks nice.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Apr 10, 2023 12:59:21 GMT
I folded mine kind of like Marie Kondo folds t-shirts and lined up in 2 rows in my drawer. It works great and looks nice. Don't mind me. I'm just adding "Kondo my kitchen towels" to my list of things to do today. Lol.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 10, 2023 13:58:08 GMT
I have about 10 of the tea towels and 25 regular towels. I should get rid of some of the regular towels as they are pretty beat up. I love the looks of tea towels but not a fan of using them..
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Post by huskergal on Apr 10, 2023 14:02:30 GMT
I have about 10 of the thin dish cloths. Those are exclusively for drying dishes. If someone uses it to wipe something up or to dry their hands, I put in the laundry and get a new one. I have different towels for drying hands. They get changed out every couple days. I probably have a dozen hand towels.
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Post by busy on Apr 10, 2023 14:09:26 GMT
Somewhere in the 12-15 range, I'd guess. Fewer than 20 for sure. They're mostly used for hands and changed daily. We don't hand wash much of anything besides knives and a couple things that don't fit well in the dishwasher (and crystal but we don't use it that often). If I need to hand dry something, I get out a clean towel, use it, throw it in the wash.
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Post by DEX on Apr 10, 2023 14:17:43 GMT
I have about 4-5 of the large white dish drying ( zztop11 from Mills Fleet Farm usually on sale). I machine embroider them and they hang from the stove after drying any strays. I also have about 6 cheapo towels from the dollar store that I use when I am doing food prep so I can wipe my hands with them and I don't care if they get stained.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 10, 2023 14:24:14 GMT
A lot. I bought a crap load from IKEA when we remodeled our kitchen. I change them frequently because a few people wipe their mouth or dirty fingers on them. MOUTH'S?!?! I could see drying poorly washed hands, but who uses a dish towel on their face? Sorry distracted by this thought. We have a couple dozen? One is pulled out in the morning for hands. And then when pans are being drying one after dinner, an additional one or two is used for that depending on how many pans and how many are helping. Afterwards they're all thrown in the laundry room at the end of the night. I use a clorox wipes on our countertops not dishtowels - and yes, yes I know all the granite manufacturers say you can't - I've done it for 20 years and it works for me. Well you would be shocked at the use of our towels. For some reason my husband thinks that the dish towels are his personal towels. He will make his dinner and use a towel for his fingers/face. Every meal that isn't at the dinner table. Those get thrown directly into the wash when he is done with it. He's done this since we been married. I'm the normal one that gets a paper towel with her food..lol
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Post by iowgirl on Apr 10, 2023 15:23:24 GMT
Only like the thin flour sack towels. Once they are wet I throw them down the stairs to the washer. And I must have about 50 of them. I use them until they are filled with holes. I think I'm obsessed I'm not going to count - but there is a large quantity! I too love the thin flour sack towels. They are hard to beat! I use them for so many cleaning purposes also. Can't wash windows without them. I have newer ones for my kitchen, as they get stained, they go to window washing, then I use them for harvest/planting time. I put a few in a gallon zip lock bag with a can of SprayWay glass cleaner (THE BEST EVER) in the cab of very tractor, combine, and truck. Make cleaning windows easier when I have a kit in each rig... and sometimes the other drivers even wash their own windows! LOL (The truck drivers always do). I have recently discovered Geometry House towels. Oh - how I love these! They are thin, but kind of dimply texture. Not fluffy like a terrycloth. They are made of recycled materials. They have SO many patterns and designs for holidays and all year around. I have been buying them to use and as gifts. I like their other towels and napkins also, but do not care for the "Not Paper Towels" at all. Here is a link to check out the GEOMETRY HOUSE towels. Google for a coupon code. It's easy to find 15% off codes that work.
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 10, 2023 15:38:10 GMT
Less than 20. I don’t usually even hand dry stuff I just let things air dry in the dish rack on the side of the sink. I change out the towel daily or more if I end up needing to wipe something up from the floor.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 10, 2023 22:41:51 GMT
I am trying to encourage my son NOT to use my nice ones to wipe his grotty hands on. So you've finally been brainwashed by the peas and renounced your Aussie citizenship If you dislocate a hip flushing the toilet - don't come to me for help. 😂🤣 OMG nooooooooo!!! What have I become?! 😆 Surely there is a difference between a tea towel (made for drying dishes) and a hand towel (made for drying hands). Neither of which should be used to clean tomato sauce from mouths and hands, mind you.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 11, 2023 4:12:43 GMT
I don't call them dish drying towels, just dish towels or kitchen towels.
They are a woven cloth. I don't own any flour sack towels/tea towels.
I think I have 15? No idea really. I change them out daily. I don't trust everyone uses them for hand drying only.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 11, 2023 4:28:36 GMT
OMG nooooooooo!!! What have I become?! 😆 Surely there is a difference between a tea towel (made for drying dishes) and a hand towel (made for drying hands). Neither of which should be used to clean tomato sauce from mouths and hands, mind you. There is a difference but I use a hand towel for drying dishes and drying hands. I rarely DO dry dishes, so I own no tea towels.
This type of towel is what I use. I like the ones that have a weave in them.
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Post by gramasue on Apr 11, 2023 13:00:35 GMT
Tea towels are for drying dishes, not hands. Kitchen terry towels are for drying hands, not dishes. Just ask my kids what happens if I catch them drying their hands on a tea towel. Haha! I have about 6 or 7 of each and change them every two days. Launder them once a week.
I made my own tea towels from tablecloths I purchased at a thrift store. The fabric is the same as what you buy in a tea towel and you can make them the size you want. Very easy to do, just cut and hem 4 sides. Very economical, too.
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Post by oh yvonne on Apr 11, 2023 15:10:43 GMT
I'm a kitchen towel collector, impulsively picking them up when I shop. I do purge once they get stained or ripped.
For drying any dishes that I don't put in the dishwasher I like to use a microfiber cloth from Norwex. There is a lot I won't put in the dishwasher (like anything wooden or pots/pans). I don't like leaving dishes out on the counter so a quick swipe with a Norwex sucks up all that water in one pass. All my cleaning cloths, dish cloths come from Norwex. I have enough to change out every couple of days and I'm super strict about wring and hang them so they don't get funky.
I love flour sack towels for general use, and I love collecting pretty ones so I have a lot of those, including a few I embroidered on my own using those old iron on transfer patterns (like the bonnet girl and the dancing veggies with a face). I also love to pick up those up when I travel.
I like to buy pretty ones and hang for display too. Right now I have a really cute Tinkerbell tea towel DD picked up for me at Disneyland a couple of weeks ago. I have a wooden shelf drawer unit that sits in my greenhouse window and I always have some sort of cute tea towel on display hanging off of it.
I have waffle weave towels that I use mostly for laying on the counter to let the dishes drain on.
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Post by papersilly on Apr 11, 2023 17:20:57 GMT
I am a nut about my drying towels. Only like the thin flour sack towels. Once they are wet I throw them down the stairs to the washer. And I must have about 50 of them. I use them until they are filled with holes. I think I'm obsessed i only like thin, flour sack-like towels too. IKEA sells 100% cotton dishtowels that i love. i have dozens of them. thick enough to be absorbent but thin enough to dry quickly so the towels don't get mildewy before i toss them in the wash.
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Post by scrappert on Apr 11, 2023 17:38:35 GMT
New towel to dry dishes. A towel for drying hands. New dish rag every time the dishes are done.
I have a ton of towels and change them for every season, holiday, etc.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 11, 2023 18:33:03 GMT
I folded mine kind of like Marie Kondo folds t-shirts and lined up in 2 rows in my drawer. It works great and looks nice. Don't mind me. I'm just adding "Kondo my kitchen towels" to my list of things to do today. Lol. I think we both have the same need for things to be organized as well as pretty!
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Post by myshelly on Apr 11, 2023 18:39:43 GMT
We just have kitchen towels, no distinction between hand towels and dish towels. If it lives in the kitchen, it’s a kitchen towel. That’s why I get a new one out when I dry dishes.
I would rather wash more than keep track of and trust who used which towel for which thing and when.
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Post by gina on Apr 11, 2023 20:24:32 GMT
I don't dry my dishes. They are either drying in the dish rack or in the dishwasher which I run every evening.
I probably have about 20 towels. There are always 2 hanging in my kitchen: one on my wall-oven and one on my dishwasher bar- so I can dry off my hands after they've been washing dishes.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 11, 2023 20:28:08 GMT
OP, I am a lot like you. Love the sack towels and have about 20 of them. I keep them folded neatly in a drawer standing up and pull one out each day (or so). It goes in the laundry room (one step outside of the kitchen) once it is used. I have a few nice more colorful/themed cotton towels that go on the dishwasher and oven that are not used.
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