Tea towels - how do you wash yours?

[TyneTeas]

Do people wash them separately or stick them in with an ordinary wash?

I always do mine separately, but it means they are hanging around until I have a few to do.

I'm not sure whether everyone segregates things that go on bodies from things that go on things that food goes on or if I am being a bit ridiculous...

I've always done my tea towels and dishcloths on separate 90' wash

DH is now in charge of washing and everything goes in together .

Wash separately with towels and flannels. My mum and aunt used to boil tea towels back in the day!

Wash them with towels on a 60 wash, no fabric conditioner.

Put them in with household linens on a cotton wash.

Our tea towels don't really do much drying, we tend to leave the washing up to dry on the rack, so it's not so much what the (not very) dirty tea towels could do to clothes as what the tea towels might 'get' from them, I don't know, as I say I never really thought about it at all

I wait until someone I know has been to the Lake District or Cornwall and gives me a present then a throw the old ones away.

But since no one seems to have recoiled in horror at the prospect of them sharing a wash with other things, I am inferring the collective blessing of MN and am about to stick some in with ordinary towels

Thank you everyone

I do mine with towels and sports clothes. Basically all the stuff that I don't want to use fabric conditioner for.

Washed with my towels and micro fibre cloths because they are tumble dried. Rest of laundry goes on the washing line whenever possible.

They go in an ordinary wash with clothes but I do give them a good hot steam iron.

We put them in with towel washes at 60 degrees

I wash them with other tea towels and hand towels, bibs and dishcloths- about 2x a week

Bath towels are washed together

Bed linen washed in a bedding wash

Clothes are washed together

Underwear is washed separately with children's vests + pyjamas

I sort mine by category and do a separate load for each:

Cathedral/fancy church
Scottish Lochs
Gardens in bloom
Saucy naked men
Feline cuteness

Anything bought by MIL obviously gets chucked straight in the bin.

Any normal wash

Underwear and all towels on together.60c with a cap of zoflora in the drawer.

I chuck them in the machine when wet / dirty and they get washed with whatever goes in next.

I wash mine separately as they get washed at 60.

I'm washing everything at 50° at the moment and they fo with the appropriate coloured wash (I do light and dark but I dont separate whites)

In any 60 degrees wash!

Not with clothes...yuk

In with towels it in doing a 90 degree wash

Or a normal wash by themselves

My mother soaked them in bleach water, rinsed, and then boiled them in a pot (a particular pot, not used for food) and hung them out to dry. The idea of washing your underwear in the same machine as a towel used in the kitchen was unthinkable.

I dry the used ones on the radiator (or outside in summer) and once bone-dry (so they don’t get mildewed or musty) I put them in a plastic bin under the sink until there’s enough for a separate load- boil wash with bleach (they’re all white).

With towels. Definitely NOT with underwear. Yuck.

Hot wash separately.

I segregate washes by:

clothes (lights/darks) - 30;

bedding;
towels;
tea towels, dish sponges and kitchen surface cloths;
bathroom cloths & dirty stuff like mop pads, icky rags etc; Or
Dog beds/blankets

• all hot wash

Might mean I need to wait for a build up but fine with that. I feel gross mixing clothes or bathroom stuff with kitchen!

I can't read any more.

People putting them in with nappies, mop heads, cleaning cloths,bath mats & guinea pig poopy towels 🤮

They hang up to dry, then get put in the used t-towel box & washed together with the dishcloths (But nothing else) after being soaked in laundry sanitiser.

I know the idea of washing stuff is to get it clean, but there's no way I want my dish cloths or t towels swilling around in the washing machine with guinea pug poo, floor moos, cleaning cloths or anything else.

I think my thinking is that they have been used instead of oven glove and general mop ups so if they have oil or fat on, it's going to get in the clothes.

See, that isn't what happens to a t-towel in my house. We have cloths for moping up spills / wiping surfaces, and oven gloves for getting things out the oven.
That said, I tend to stick those cloths into a bit of water to soak first but then put those cloths in to the next hot wash I am doing, so still don't keep them separate.

Not with clothes...yuk

Why on earth not ?