Is this weird or am I a slattern

[allgoodinthehood]

I think it totally fine to wash tee towels in with clothes washing .
My partner thinks they should be washed separately on a hot wash.
He thinks it just not right to have tee towels and underwear washed together as its unhygienic.
My clothes washing is on a 40 degrees wash.
Tell me Im not mad .
Happy Easter everyone.

Mine all go in together on a 30 or 40 wash with no fabric softener - its bad for the environment - but a splash of that antibacterial rinse thingy.

Once every couple of weeks i wash the towels on a boil wash.

I do it too - what is the problem? I wash everything at 40 degrees and we have survived

Ultimately its time to let dp do the laundry if dp don't like the way it's done

I wash work uniforms and school uniforms as hot as possible, do towels and tea towels/cloths separately as I don’t use softner on those, and everything else gets chucked in a mixed load on 40. Pre covid I only separated the towels and cleaning cloths, only because they don’t have softner. I am constantly drowning in washing though so don’t take advice from me 😂

Tea towels are used to dry clean things. They can go on with whatever. If there are towels in I'll just not use softener, that's not really necessary anyway. I'd say the same thing about towels as they are used in clean bodies but I know many on mumsnet wash only with water so I'd definitely recommend those towels be washed entirely separately!

I always wash tea towels with normal stuff at 40

Everything goes in at 30 to 40 degrees with laundry disinfectant. Then dried outside. It is fine.

I wash them separately but purely because towels tend to give off lots of fluff that stick to clothes.

Tea towels in with matching colour of other clothes. I probably use a couple per day and then they get shoved in the machine.

@Champagneandmonstermunch

Surely the whole point is that everything comes out clean, so I can't see why it would matter? If you were storing tea towels in with dirty underwear, then using them, then I could see the issue.

It does matter.

40 degrees can't possibly kill the bacteria on a tea towel

I don't have enough dishtowels to justify a wash just for them. Besides they all come out clean anyway, makes no difference and it would be wasteful to separate them out.

40 degrees can't possibly kill the bacteria on a tea towel

Yet no one in my household has never even had so much as a tummy bug let alone any sort of food poisoning so it doesn't appear to be an issue.

My tea towels are used to dry dishes and then washed when damp. What dangerous bacteria is on them that needs a hot wash?

@HikeForward

I boil wash my tea towels on 90, separately. I think it’s a bit unhygienic to wash on 40 with clothing.

I think it's okay as the plates, bowls, cutlery etc. have already been washed clean and are just wet.

What on earth is on your tea towels that require a boil wash?

I don't use tea towels.

HTH

I couldn't be arsed saving up my tea towels to do separately. They get used and if needed chucked in the machine for the next wash. I've been doing this for decades and we are all still alive and rarely ill so obviously it doesn't matter a jot!
I do wonder if some neighbours think I'm a right dirty mare when I hang my tea towels next to the boxers shorts but what the hell.
Bedding goes on a 60 because of make dirty greasy heads but thats it.

I wash mine separately on a hot wash but I have loads and save them up to wash together, so it’s a full load.

40 degrees can't possibly kill the bacteria on a tea towel

And yet no one who washes them with everything else is ill. Why do you think this might be?

Whattalotta
here you go

Do people boil wash their hands?

I wash my tea towels on a 100 degree wash, with a dose of plutonium in with them for any of those stubborn germs.

I lost my mum to a tea towel borne illness, so now I dont take any chances.

I once accidentally used the same towel my daughter had used just a couple of hours before, I was then knocked down by Long Towel-itis and now find lifting a dish cloth too strenuous.

You cant be too careful in these dirty towel times..

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/bohemian-middle-class-household-just-dirty-20160923114303?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1617531100

Interesting! Similarly, I was once told (don’t know the original source) that water temperature is irrelevant also for hand washing for the same reasons. To make any difference to germs, the water would have to be so hot that it would be intolerable for the skin, so the temperatures at which we wash our hands makes no difference- it’s the soap that does the magic!

I saw (I think it was on QI) for hand washing (and possibly washing up) it was soap and how vigorously you scrubbed - hence covid 20 second rule?

Nothing wrong with that. Where possible i do try to put towels separately with no softener as they dry you better. But that’s just not always possible. My kids need 600 towels each per shower apparently 🙄