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Washing teatowels

197 replies

BordelDeMerde · 06/10/2021 18:50

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.

OP posts:
XenoBitch · 06/10/2021 22:46

@Ionlydomassiveones

There are definitely people around my local Tesco who have the cavalier ‘I wash all my grim shitty stuff together at less than body temperature and nobody died’ attitude and they actually stink. Alive but nose blind. Minging.
How do you know their washing machine habits? Do you ask them?
LubaLuca · 06/10/2021 22:48

Washing them with underwear and sweaty clothes is gross.

Can underwear be washed with sweaty clothes? Can sweaty clothes be washed with non-sweaty clothes? Do I need to buy a second washing machine? It's a bloody minefield.

TheKeatingFive · 06/10/2021 22:50

Do you ask them?

I'm thinking she has a survey she hands out to the smellies.

It's all about the data.

GretchenWieners0 · 06/10/2021 22:54

Who has time to wash tea towels separately? Confused

XenoBitch · 06/10/2021 22:58

@LubaLuca

Washing them with underwear and sweaty clothes is gross.

Can underwear be washed with sweaty clothes? Can sweaty clothes be washed with non-sweaty clothes? Do I need to buy a second washing machine? It's a bloody minefield.

You clearly need a washing machine for each individual garment.
TheKeatingFive · 06/10/2021 23:00

You clearly need a washing machine for each individual garment.

It's the only way

JJ123456 · 06/10/2021 23:30

I wash them with our other towels at 60

XenoBitch · 06/10/2021 23:40

@TheKeatingFive

You clearly need a washing machine for each individual garment.

It's the only way

On Eco wash too. Got to save the planet.
Ijustknowitstimetogo · 06/10/2021 23:46

60 degrees separately or with towels. I’ve never known any different.

JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 06/10/2021 23:48

I wash them with bedding and towels at 60C.

DroopyClematis · 06/10/2021 23:50

D*o not engage! It's like the flat Earth society
*
I think you're absolutely spot on.
It's like those stupid people that won't put a dog's bowl in a dishwasher which washes hotter than your hands can bear! And with skin eroding detergent to boost!

RavingAnnie · 06/10/2021 23:53

I wash tea towels and cleaning cloths separately at 60 as 40 won't kill germs and I prefer my tea towels germless 😊

TheKeatingFive · 07/10/2021 00:00

I prefer my tea towels germless

Talk me through the risks of all these germy tea towels?

ThinWomansBrain · 07/10/2021 00:01

Usually chuck them in with bed linen & towels, occasionally clothes.
If I waited until I had a load full of tea towels that'd be about six months worth Hmm

BarbaraofSeville · 07/10/2021 00:03

@DroopyClematis

D*o not engage! It's like the flat Earth society * I think you're absolutely spot on. It's like those stupid people that won't put a dog's bowl in a dishwasher which washes hotter than your hands can bear! And with skin eroding detergent to boost!
But are quite happy to put chopping boards that have been used for raw chicken in there.

If the chopping board comes out clean without leaving raw chicken all over everything else, and the dishwasher itself, wouldn't the same logic apply to dog bowls, or indeed cloths, pants, tea towels etc in the washing machine?

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olidora63 · 07/10/2021 00:05

All my washing all gets chucked in together!! I am still alive decades later !!

knittingaddict · 07/10/2021 03:11

Tea towels go in with the towels on a mimimum 60 degree wash. Used to be hotter than that, but the oven gloves and bath mat won't go on that temperature.

I will always do one hot wash a week because I would never wash towels or dishcloths on a 40 degree wash, so tea towels might as well go in with them.

brokenbiscuitsx · 07/10/2021 07:32

They go in with everything else, they have been used to dry clean pots and pans!

Exactly and bath towels have been used to dry a clean body. What are people doing that their tea towels are mucky?

KatherineJaneway · 07/10/2021 07:35

In with everything else

Wazzzzzzzup · 07/10/2021 07:45

Do you all who are waahing it nilly willy with anything also have toilet brush and bath mat? 😁

(I am for washing it with anything I don't use conditioner on so not making fun of mixing them in with normal atuff😁)

Myusernameisnotmyusernameno · 07/10/2021 08:38

Thank you @TuftyMarmoset

Washing tea towels with reusable san pro is NOT the same as drying your cat with a tea towel then drying the pots with it 😁.

My DH uses tea towels to wipe up the sides then leaves it on the worktop. Drives me mad.

Original poster
BordelDeMerde · 07/10/2021 12:22

@Wazzzzzzzup

Do you all who are waahing it nilly willy with anything also have toilet brush and bath mat? 😁

(I am for washing it with anything I don't use conditioner on so not making fun of mixing them in with normal atuff😁)

Guilty on all counts!

I don't put the toilet brush in the washing machine, though, that would just be silly.

OP posts:
Harpydragon · 07/10/2021 12:25

Mine go in with towels and cleaning clothes at 60. It's the only wash I don't use fabric conditioner for

Blossomtoes · 07/10/2021 12:28

Team DH here. I’m as far away from a hygiene obsessive as it’s possible to be but the thought of tea towels being washed with pants and socks makes me heave. 🤮

PickAChew · 07/10/2021 12:29

You use them for a few days?

I wash all my towels, people towels and tea towels together, at 60 with a very small dose of powder. They stay a lot fresher for it.

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