Kitchen hand towels always wet.

[DrWackadoodle]

Can anyone recommend any that aren’t sopping wet after 2/3 hand dries?
We have tea towels for any dishes, that get little use as we have a dishwasher, but I’m constantly washing my hands if prepping food, feeding the animals etc and they just seem so wet after 2/3 hand dries that I’m sometimes getting through 3 hand towels a day.
Is it a towel quality issue? I don’t remember towels feeling so wet when living in DM’s house as a teen/early 20’s, although maybe I just didn’t do so much and wash my hands so often.

Buy an aga then you can hang it on the rail to dry. 😄

I just got a couple of these and love the thickness and size.

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-gingham-cotton-tea-towel/haze-blue/p110341595

Are you using the same tea towel for drying your hands as you would use for dishes? If yes, they aren't great for hand drying....they're very light and then. You might need a proper hand towel. I keep separate towels in the kitchen - the light tea towel for drying the odd dish and then a thick towel for hands. Like you'd use in the bathroom.

**light and thin

Op mentions tea towels and hand towels so sounds like they are using separate towels

Do you use fabric conditioner in your washing machine? Towels that have been treated with fabric conditioner are a lot less good at drying.

We have a stock of 6 hand towels for the kitchen with one in use and the rest on standby. If there are no spills or disasters each lasts a couple of days.

We did go through a stage of needing to replace them every couple of hours. We discovered that autistic dc had taken to trying to dry out the dish sponges and J-Cloths using the hand towel!

We use a bathroom handtowel, no problem with wetness. We have loops on them and they hang on hooks. However our kitchen is quite warm.

I had no idea kitchen had towels existed. We just use an ordinary towel.

We dont have 'hand towels' in the kitchen, we have about 3 or 4 tea towels, the old fashioned thin linen ones, scattered about, get used for this and that, I dry my hands on them, when one is too wet I use another

We have a dishwasherr but Im also always wiping up wet work tops etc

And like others say, never use fabric conditioner on towels of any kind

Not used for dishes as we have tea towels for that. These are towelling kitchen hand towels, so like bathroom hand towels really.
No, never use fabric conditioner.
Towels are hung on a towel rack over the radiator so they are aired rather than screwed up wet. Obviously winter this means they aren’t as wet, but with the radiator not on in summer they don’t dry between hand washes.
No room for an Aga.
The ones linked are tea towels, which we do have, and I have tried to use that type for hands with the same soggy results.