to not have oven gloves or tea towels that match the kitchen

[StealthPolarBear]

Well to sone extent they match - old and a bit tatty, like the kitchen.
But it never occurred to me that even when we replace the kitchen we'd get oven gloves and tea towels to match. I've just discovered this is a thing, thanks to mn.

I am very anal and can't have anything like a tea towel or oven glove on show, even if they matched. Even the toaster has to live in a cupboard in this house.

I don't have the energy to worry about that sort of thing!

Ohhhh I'm so old I remember the 70s, orange, plastic chairs. Yes my friends orange plastic. I thought it was cos we was common, but the lack of matchy, matcht, cos what the fuck matches with orange plastic, means we was well posh.

Fuck you lower middle class scum.

Yanbu. Matchy kitchens are rather 'Stepford'.

I have sturdy Le Creuset oven gloves. They don't match and I don't care.

Stealth surely a student would use a tea towel to get a hot baking tray out of the oven?

Yes I was enlightened today too - I never knew people were so particular about their matching kitchen fabrics.

Ours do not match and we have a rag tag of a kitchen to match anyway I would have to source from a local skip to find a match

Red tartan oven gloves, cream hand towel, black/white checkerboard tea towel.

Tomorrow's tea towel is possibly Views over Whitby... but still with the tartan oven glove.

When we had our kitchen done in our old house I bought coordinating tea towels and hung them permanently on a 'for show' towel rail. I think that was the start of my breakdown tbh.

Mine don't match but I love tea towels, I have about 20 . Gallery/museum/national trust gift shops are great for them.

Totally unreasonable. Not even sure you sure be having guests around to such squalor.

Troy we have standards

Growing up we had tea towel with words to Amazing Grace on it I have fond memories of singing it with my Mum in the kitchen whilst using it to dry dishes

Our oven gloves don't even match each other, never mind the kitchen

All my in-laws are matcha matchy complete with things like show towels.
It's like they live in Dunelm Mill or NEXT home.

I was about to buy new tea towels, when I thought of the huge tower of muslin nappies in the airing cupboard. These are now my tea towels

My daughters never wear matching pyjama tops and bottoms but they are over 18 and can wear what they want (though it irritates the hell out of me)

I might have matching tea towels, hand towels, oven gloves, pot stands, washing up sponges, cleaning cloths and scrubbing brushes. 😂 Getting just the right shade of Aqua-ish/pastel green is v hard and I spend far too long searching for more to add to the collection. DP used one of the blue general cleaning cloths in the kitchen the other day and I was less than impressed.

That said, most everything else in our house isn't matchy matchy but I did go a bit haywire when putting in the new kitchen. Nothing matches the kitchen per se because it is v neutral.
I would have loved matching pastel utensils but the quality of everything I found was crap.

Well, I have two oven gloves, and they match each other, that is the extent of my matchiness.

I do have some teatowels that match each other, but they don't tend to ever be in use at the same time as each other. I am not that organised.

Actually we do need some new oven gloves, due to quite serious singing incident the other week when my gloved hand came in contact with the heating element on the grill (thank goodness I was wearing them!). Just suggested to DH that we could buy some to match the kitchen. He looked and said, "What, you mean with pictures of cupboards and kettles and things on them?"

"" would have loved matching pastel utensils but the quality of everything I found was crap."

I'm reading it but I don't understand it. They sell stuff in Tesco, that's my big tip.

The quality of the pastel coloured utensils I found was shit. It was cheap crap. So I just bought plain black and silver.

I think oven gloves are horrid bulky silly looking things. What's wrong with a tea towel?

Holiday bought tea towels are essential

Doesn't cover the whole of your hand. So if you're taking something out of the middle or bottom of the oven, using a tea towel you can burn your hand on the top shelf. I know, I have done this several times, so now I have oven gloves.

I must be a very careful oven user