Why is kitchen roll so bloody expensive?

[Tootsweetrodders]

First world problem obviously..

But why the mother fecking feck is kitchen roll SO expensive?!

Possibly it’s just me and my — Sunday evening, but drunk, doing the shopping on my phone app in front of shit telly - self…

Surely you can't use reusable clothes for everything? Like draining chips etc.

I get a pack of micro fibre clothes from Primark at every visit. I think they are £1.50 for four. However I don't like putting anything with any type of cleaning solution in with my clothes washing so I only use a dot of washing up liquid on a damp cloth. Sometimes I need detol and kitchen roll.

I also get 6 packs of while roll at Costco instead. One pack has lasted since god knows when. November I think.

@OutDamnedSpot I keep putting off buying something like these but these look really cool, thanks for posting them!

Reusable kitchen paper. I bought it a year ago and haven't bought disposable kitchen paper since. They just go in the wash with my other cloths or towels. I find popping them together again and rolling up quite satisfying and only takes a 5 minutes. They look lovely on the counter and have lots of nice designs on Etsy.

How do you absorb grease then?
I'm all for reusable but I don't particularly want fluffy burgers or chips😂

I came off right shifts a few weeks ago and needed some more kitchen roll (there are certain more "dirtier" things I like to use it for than I do my white-backed fabric reusable "kitchen roll" that I have), I ordered 2x6 of plenty (so 12 rolls) for just under £21) - I had only meant to order on pack but...post night shift brain 😅.To buy the same amount of Plenty kitchen rolls in Tesco would cost you just over £30 (although they do have 3 rolls on clubcard price at the minute for £5, which would work out about the same as from Amazon)
It is absolutely ludicrous how much good like kitchen roll and toilet roll cost now. Oh and Kleenex are doing sneaky shrinkflation too - they used to do twin packs of tissues with 64 tissues in each box, now they have replaced them with "bigger" boxes at about the same price but with 8 less tissues in the box. It's all an absolute rip off!

I very rarely absorb the excess grease 😂 i just eat it as it is, or maybe the food I eat isn't that greasy?! So its not been an issue for me. but if I did I would use the reusable kitchen towels to degrease. The ones I have aren't fluffy like normal towels they are quite flat if that makes sense! I use the resuables for all sorts - napkins when eating, wiping hands, mopping up spills.

On another tack, I had to buy cat litter this weekend - I'm fairly economical with it, so a pack lasts around six months, but it used to be £5 or £6.
£11.50😧
Admittedly £20 for two packs, so I have a years supply - but double!!

I don't use that much kitchen towel, and often forget where I've put the second roll of a pack, so won't have to buy any for a while.

I won't buy it anymore. I buy the big dishcloths but the thick decent ones and cut them in half so I get double the use out of them although I use them and wash them for a good few months before replacing.

Use newspaper? Even if I'm draining fat, I use newspaper underneath the kitchen roll.

Because it's unnecessary. It's also damaging to the environment for a tiny bit less of an effort than a dish cloth.

Plenty was £8-40 for 4 in supermarket last week ....It's a complete rip-off !

Not newspaper direct on food obvs but for absorbing grease from cooking pans etc. I also use it when I've cleaned the oven and have all that grimy muck to clean, scunched up newspaper is great for that. Also great for cleaning windows.

I drain chips onto muslins (the type used for burping babies). I just bung them in a hot wash with the other disclothes, towels etc.

We don't use kitchen roll - I've not yet found anything it does that can't be done by a dishcloth, a muslin or tissue/toilet paper (e.g. the finger pricks etc for that one).

One day we will look back and be horrified it was acceptable and affordable.

Perhaps we are at the affordable bit already

@Justleaveitblankthen
and we use it as 'cheap' serviettes at mealtimes - if we aren't hosting guests obviously-
Does nobody else do this? 🤔

We do!

Blue roll.

Use cloth instead.

I'm glad there's a financial disincentive for a single use product, maybe people will think more about what they consume.

Buffalo, from Home Bargains, is a good substitute for Regina Blitz. The sheets are slightly smaller though. £1.89 for three big rolls.

According to some, it's because I use it like it's going out of fashion.

Apparently.

We use Regina Blitz, go through loads as I find it better than tissues for my runny nose.

For people that don't use kitchen roll, how do you drain foods that have been fried?
Like a chicken schnitzel or sausages?
I put them on kitchen towel to absorb the fat.

For those asking how to manage without, please try and consider giving it a go they’re so wasteful.

I don’t seem to have any grease to absorb from foods I’ve cooked, but would use a slatted spatula to drain it if I did. I put fish or steak straight in the pan, no issues. I don’t usually need a napkin but we have cloth ones if I do. I use an ecloth to buff chrome handles etc. We’re a family of 4. both working full time and haven’t used them for about 20 years.

The only thing that I can re-create that I learned when having a kitchen table meal was that Michelin stared chefs use jay clothes to absorb meat juices and fat lol. They placed them flat on baking trays.

Kitchen roll has increased in price because paper making is a very high intensity industry and they've probably also seen increased post Brexit costs as a lot of wood pulp comes from Europe.

Kitchen roll has a lot of use in our house. Peeling boiled eggs onto. Dabbing fish before shallow frying in a pan. Soaking up oil after things have been pan fried. Drying the kitchen surfaces after washing them with a cloth and hot soapy water. Emergency runny/bleeding noses. Small spills. Napkin/serviette replacements for most meals. Drying off salad/veg/fruit after washing them. Cleaning the gunk from the washing machine door and seal

Most of those are completely unnecessary. Peel the eggs straight into the bin or onto a plate. Dry kitchen surfaces with a tea towel or cloth, likewise drying veg/salad and cleaning the washing machine door. For the latter, just wipe it with a tea towel or cloth that is about to be washed.

We probably use a roll a month, mostly for wiping out the frying pan or picking up the remnants of 'what the cat dragged in'. We just get the cheap stuff and also save all the excess napkins we get given with takeaway food to use (WTF do they always give you a great handful of napkins??? Half the time they won't let you not have them and put them in the bin if you give them back, so it's not worth trying to argue with them) so the cost isn't that great and it's useful to have on some occasions. But I just can't get my head around how some people seem to go through rolls and rolls of it.

We’ve lowered usage

I never buy kitchen roll. I never fry anything in enough oil to need to drain anything either. Stuff like mince that needs draining I’ll just use a spoon to hold the mince to one side and drain the excess water / fat down the sink (I only buy low fat mince anyway so there’s not much). If you get a good non stick frying pan and just use minimum frying oil you never need to drain anything.