Three separate towels!?

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Somehow I got to adulthood without knowing about the necessity for dedicated glass towels. New OH is English and insists on them. Glassware is only to be dried with glass towels, NOT regular teatowels. Fair enough, it takes all the streaks off and all that.
But… my question, which he can't answer, is, why don't we just use the glass towels to dry everything, whether it's glass or not? Presumably that won't harm the other items.
He doesn't know the answer but still insists that glass towels are only for glasses.... so now I have to have three bleedin' towels hanging up in my tiny kitchen!!??

Please enlighten me!

Same! Mine are always streaky because I don't dry them at all (and live in a hardwater area).

they are made of linen usually and great for streak free glasses but not so good at water absorption so less practical for drying lots of things.

May be you should have a chat with Food Standards Agency, that is what their training say!

I understand what a glass towel is and I understand why you would use them for glassware/Pyrex but why do people dry dishes.
As a family we never dried a dish, a pan or anything. It was all stacked to drip dry them out away. I understood that it was a hygiene thing
As an adult I don’t own a tea towel let alone a glass towel. Everything goes in the dishwasher and then gets put away.

I tried a glass towel once, it just made a weird squeeky noise and left me soaking wet!

Hate streaky smudgy glasses - I'm with your husband on this one.

Lol, lol, lol!

We do have glass towels, white with a blue trim. On my DHs instigation. We drink a lot of wine. Have nice wine glasses.

To dry a wine glass to high shine the cloth needs to be dry. If you dry dishes and cutlery with the same cloth, the cloth is soggy and you won't get the shine on the glass that you get with a dry cloth.

It is actually a thing. My DH is a bit of a nerd, though- love him!

Oh and some glasses can't go in the dishwasher.

Glass towels are definitely a thing. They say "glass" on them, but in reality they are just a tea towel and I use the ones I have as normal tea towels. There is really nothing special or unique about them.

I handwash my wine glasses I have had way too many break in the dishwasher.

A glass towel is one that won't leave any fluffy bits on your glassware. So it's usually linen or just woven cotton as opposed to the Terry towelling or waffle woven sort.

It's really used for polishing a glass that is already dry rather than soaking up the water.

No I don't have separate ones. But if I'm doing glasses for an occasion (rather than just family use) I'll get a fresh tea towel out.

Every day is a school day on MN.

Can't abide linen teatowels/cloths though, they just push all the wet about and don't dry things off properly.

When you've had your teatowels as long as I've had some of mine (I'm talking decades here), they have long since lost any sign of lint and are as threadbare as anything. But they dry up like wizards.

You just use a clean one and dry the glasses first, before anything else, and nothing gets smeary.

This.

You should dry glass with linen or similar - lint free. But you can also dry everything else that. You could get fluffier teatowels for drying other stuff, I suppose.

I mostly just leave washing up to dry on the rack, rather than dry up with any sort of towel.

This.

We have a glass towel, but only use it for the best Riedel wine glasses (different shapes for different wines!).

For obvious reasons the glass towel doesn't get used all that often!

Am I the only scuzz bucket who is pondering the existence of a separate hand towel too? I just use my arse to dry my hands

Your OH insists on glass towels?
LTB

What's the third type of towel for? Hands?

I'm was still British last time I checked and I've never heard of a glass towel.

Glasses go upside down on the draining rack or on a kitchen cloth until they're dry, then they get put away. No polishing required, they're always perfectly clean.

I used to waitress is a very high end restaurant as a student and they are definitely a thing but I’ve never seen them anywhere else!

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Is he from a wealthy background? I don’t never heard of glass towels so can only think it’s a posh person thing 😂

Yes this, I got a pack of 3

Linen - glass towel (gets wet very quickly)
Waffle - dish towel
Fluffy - hand towel

Not that they get used for these specific things though as we use the dishwasher. Linen or waffle will be used to dry any that are hand washed including glasses.

Redefine the problem and let your glasses air dry !

Or leave him to dry them up with whichever piece of cloth he can find

My Mum always had a this cotton T towel just for glasses and a Terry type thicker one for everything else.