Three separate towels!?

[TwoTowels]

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!

People dry their glasses with a towel?

I can categorically say that I've never tow dried a glass. They dry on the draining board.

here's the problem.

All T towels should be linen.
Most of the ones sold today are crappy slightly fluffy nonsense, the name is misleading, a T towel should never be made of toweling fabric.
These fluffly things are not T towels.
T towels should be linen, and need washing about 10 times befire first use,
Then they dry everything perfectly glass or not. The older the better, they improve with age.
Hand towels for drying hands should be toweling fabric, you know like an actual towel.
Don't use a T towel for hands

(but in reality, stick them in the dishwasher and then who cares? )

That's amazing @greenhousegal. Which provider at you with in Ireland?
With two teenagers who eat non stop I'm not sure I could hold off using the dishwasher until Saturday, but could definitely get a rake of washing and drying done!

@TwoTowels They ARE absorbent, they get better and softer as they age. I only use this kind of T towel, I cannot stand fluffy ones (or microfibres or whatever). The best ones are the 'glass' ones, but the others are ok too once they've aged a bit (horrible new). I mostly leave dishes to air dry (doesn't take long as I rinse them under the tap flowing very very hot. But they're fine for drying dishes if you want to. I wash glasses first, and if I'm drying them, dry them first too then use the T towels for everything else, but in order of plates, bowls, cutlery etc leaving pots until last and generally use paper towel or an old T towel for pots.

Then they get hung up to dry & once dry put in a separate washing box & when I have enough dishcloths & T towels they get soaked in laundry Dettol & washed separately to everything else.

I'm admit I'm 'anal' but it works for me.

Ss for your new man, I don't quite understand his need for them to be 'only' for glass if the rest of the dishes have been washed properly, but it's a minor thing and I'll just roll my eyes & go with in.

but I can see for people who use one t towel for the week/month/year it would be a bigger adjustment.

This is very true, it is quite difficult to get linen tea towels nowadays, most are cotton even expensive ones. Years ago most were linen, often called Irish linen I believe. John Lewis sell the glass towels in 100%linen, most of the others seem to be microfibre or cotton. Amazon sell 50% linen ones which are called linen.

Nrft
glass towels are linen like. They dry glass, streak free.
other towels are ‘Terry towel’ they dry cups, plates, pans etc.

glass towels are actually no retry shut at drying, but good at polishing.

a glass towel is pretty useless as a drying towel.

not really good at drying

Electric Ireland. A Smart Meter is needed to avail of this tariff.

There is a lot of talk floating around about the low uptake of Smart meters, and whether tariffs like mine are true to their publicity or not. I think that depends on your routine and the times you use electricity the most. I have not obsessed about it, but as I said my lifestyle for lots of reasons means that I can hold off most big ticket items until Saturdays and just do the basics in the week such as cooking and hand dishwashing etc.

I will monitor it over the year, but so far so good!

Thanks @greenhousegal
I'm not sure I quite trust smart meters yet, and from anecdotal evidence from chatting to friends etc... it looks like tariffs increase even more, which scares me as they're increasing enough at the moment. But I guess it does make you take ownership of how/ when you use your gas/electricity.
Something to bear in mind though, so thanks for that! 😊