For love nor money cannot find kitchen hand towels

[TinyGarden]

Do they still exist? Went to Dunelm and various large supermarkets - they only seem to sell tea towels.

Did kitchen hand towels stop being a 'thing'? How do people dry their hands?

I ended up buying a bathroom hand towel, but it's far too big for kitchen use really.

Please could someone direct me to some online? I've been searching half an hour and feel like I'm cracking up!

I didn't know there was even such a thing as hand towels specifically for use in the kitchen.

[quote thedevilinablackdress]These from H&M are good
www2.hm.com/en_gb/home/shop-by-product/bath-shower/towels/guest-towels.html[/quote]
Yes, they look much better! The one I got today was 50cm x 90cm. Those ones are 30cm x 50cm. Sounds much more 'kitchen like'. Thank you!

So...what is the point of a tea towel then? Drying my hands is the only thing I use them for. This is an eye opener indeed.

I just use terry towelling tea towels.

I didn’t realise people had such things as separate hand towels and tea towels until I met MIL - I’m still never sure which is for which 😂 the fluffy ones or the flat ones...
We just use tea towels, although we have a dishwasher and wash nothing up by hand other than our chillys bottles so no drying of dishes/pots etc.
And I change them every day so I’m not worried about germs.

@Peanutbutteryogurt

So...what is the point of a tea towel then? Drying my hands is the only thing I use them for. This is an eye opener indeed.

Same here!

What's the problem with just using a tea towel?

I have hand towels in the bathroom but they would look very odd and out of place in the kitchen.

Someone mentioned a hook though? I remember my gran had a hook for (what I thought were) tea towels in the kitchen. Maybe one was for a hand towel? Could this be a generational thing?

I got mine from H&M home, 2 in a pack. Perfect.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

How are they too big? My hands are the same size in the kitchen and the bathroom.

The issue is that a bathroom hand towel hangs very low for a kitchen.

....I've just realised I have some flat tea towels and some fluffy tea towels. Is this the difference? Are the fluffy ones actually hand towels?

[quote TheSpottedZebra]Odd, but Hema, the Dutch shop a bit like Tiger is very into kitchen hand towels: www.hema.com/en-gb/cooking-dining/kitchen-cookware/kitchen-textiles[/quote]
Thanks Zebra will take a look.

Oh, drives me mad when my husband dries his hands on the tea towel not the kitchen hand towel. And yes, it's really hard to find them!

Asda.

We got the Asda (think they were smart price) smallest towels, changed daily and although thin, they do the job. I think I use it umpteen times a day!

@FindMeInTheSunshine

Oh, drives me mad when my husband dries his hands on the tea towel not the kitchen hand towel. And yes, it's really hard to find them!

Ha - this is exactly what sparked off my search!

Except even worse, he was also using the hand towels as replacement oven gloves and ruining them. !

I have the old fashioned kitchen towel loop on a wooden roller to dry hands. All these people drying their hands on a tea towel, yuk! Tea towel is ONLY to dry clean dishes. Even things from the dishwasher have drippy bottoms sometimes and need drying. It's revolting to use something that people have wiped their hands on.

Hangs low?

Mine don’t. They are hung the same way as a bathroom towel.

This is a mystery.....

@TheChosenTwo

I didn’t realise people had such things as separate hand towels and tea towels until I met MIL - I’m still never sure which is for which 😂 the fluffy ones or the flat ones... We just use tea towels, although we have a dishwasher and wash nothing up by hand other than our chillys bottles so no drying of dishes/pots etc. And I change them every day so I’m not worried about germs.

Ah, we don't have a dish washer you see, so the thin ones deffo get used for drying dishes. They are often damp from that, hence the importance of having a nice dry 'hand' towel for drying hands.

I can see if you have a dishwasher that tea towels might suffice for hands.

We just use this kind of thing for drying hands in the kitchen:

www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-terry-cotton-check-tea-towel/blue/p4055125

And non-terry ones for drying dishes.

@BoudicasBoudoir

We just use this kind of thing for drying hands in the kitchen:

www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-terry-cotton-check-tea-towel/blue/p4055125

And non-terry ones for drying dishes.

Oh yes....I know those. They are sort of half way between a tea towel and a hand towel, just to confuse matters

All these people drying their hands on a tea towel, yuk! Tea towel is ONLY to dry clean dishes. Even things from the dishwasher have drippy bottoms sometimes and need drying. It's revolting to use something that people have wiped their hands on

I never use a tea towel on my dishes, if things from the dishwasher are still wet I put them on the drying rack. And it's not revolting, don't be utterly ridiculous. These are the same hands that put said dishes in the cupboard, get them out again, serve food on to them. Dishes are not sterile. And hopefully the hands wiped on them are clean, since they've just been washed. Good grief.

I bought normal hand towels, cut them in half and hemmed the raw edge.

I have these from Sophie Allport, think they are meant for Aga's but look ok in my small kitchen.

I love a hand towel in the kitchen

www.sophieallport.com/collections/roller-hand-towels/products/labrador-roller-hand-towel

Try TKMaxx. Beside the tea towels and kitchen utensils not beside the towels/bedding.

I use tea towels for dishes once and then they get relegated to hands. And then thrown in the wash. We use 2 or 3 a day so they're probably cleaner than the one a pp uses over and over again for dishes.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

How are they too big? My hands are the same size in the kitchen and the bathroom.

That probably wasn't meant to be funny but