Washing teatowels

[BordelDeMerde]

Sorry for the boring thread.

AIBU to think it's fine to bung teatowels in with the normal washing at 40° if they're not actually soiled?
DH seems to think we should do a separate wash for teatowels and I think that's overkill when they've just been used in a normal fashion to dry stuff for a few days.

I always wash my tea towels and other kitchen stuff separately.

I’m with your DH.

Me too, I'm afraid.

I chuck them in with everything else 🤷🏻‍♀️

Tea towels go in normal wash for me, I don't care! Slattern that I clearly am.

I do them with towels because with towels I don't use any softener

Yep. Normal wash..
Life is short enough without worrying about how to wash a tea towel.

I used to wash them separately then gave up and can report no ill effects.

I put them in with everything else BUT I iron them on the hottest setting as their final clean.

I put them in with my towel wash,at 40 degrees.

I do all towels together at 60. I would never have enough tea towels to do a wash of just them.

@M4J4

I always wash my tea towels and other kitchen stuff separately.

I’m with your DH.

What other kitchen stuff are you washing, though? I wash the kitchen cloth with other cleaning cloths and any actually soiled tea towels, but teatowels that have just been used, but don't like or smell dirty?

Im with your DH, I always boil wash my tea towels and dish cloths.

I do them with everything else at 30. What exactly are you worried about them having on them? Soapy water and drying them out will mean nothing can survive on them.

It would never ever have occurred to me to wash them separately. The things they dry are clean. The hands that hold them are clean. Why would you need to?

*look, ffs

I wash them in with the bath towels at 60 degrees.

Aprons, micro fibre towels, veg bags for potatoes etc

I do a separate wash for tea towels and cleaning cloths. I love a washing thread.

I throw them in with other stuff at 30. We have a dishwasher so they are used very occasionally to dry something that has just been washed. How dirty can they be?

Once they are damp I fling them in the machine and then they are washed with whatever load goes on next. They are drying clean dishes not mopping up ebola!

We bung them in with towels at 60 or 90.

I put them in a towel wash along with my sanitary ones and face wipes too.

With your DH , tea towels in with towels on 60°c wash. Not keen on washing them in with the family's smalls!

I pop the dishcloth in the dishwasher when it goes on.

They go in with bedding and or towels on a 60 degree wash here. And get a pre-soak in Vanish if they are stained.

60 degree wash here, in with the towels.