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…

Please don't put fat down the sink, no matter how little you think it is. Let it go solid in a bowl and put it in the bin or out for the birds.

I just use muslin squares. I had them when DS19 was a wee bairn. Cut them up into quarters and zig zag edged them.

Had about 24, now have about 15.

They're brilliant. Just pop them in the wash, and when they're worn, put them in the clothes recycling 👍

Yanbu. The price has rocketed

Pour the oil into a tub, let it set and give it to birds

Otherwise just put them on a cooling rack/sieve with a baking tray underneath if I feel like they're dripping in oil.

I am not tight with many products but I am unbelievably tight with kitchen roll. I always tear it in half! I think it’s because only posh people had it when I was growing up. Now I know why!

It's mostly because they're using it instead of a cloth!

It's one of those products that people seem to believe is a household essential, like loo roll or washing up liquid. It's a great marketing trick!

We have multiple muslin squares and old towels cut into squares for the one off jobs, they get used and put in the washing machine, take up maybe the space of a pair of pants and are better than the paper ones as they don't fall apart from the wet!

This too. We use an old jar

I can't live without kichen roll, there are so many icky things I just don't want to be wiping with a reusable cloth - not least dog wee/sick. I also wipe excess oil from around the pan and the electricity and water needed to wash oily cloths is probably no better for the environment than using kitchen roll - particularly as I wash things as infrequently as possible as our electricity day rate is high due to our heating being on economy 7. So washing things on a high heat would cost a fortune.

The only thing I use paper kitchen roll for is cleaning windows, can anyone suggest a miracle product for that? I have microfibre cloths, and reusable bamboo kitchen roll and they both leave the windows smeary.

I inject 6 times a day and also test my blood, how the heck do you use that much. I use swabs and they last so much longer

My kid vomited all over the bathroom last week. I was grateful for kitchen roll. I used to buy Regina blitz and use it a lot now I mainly use reusable but buy the cheapest in Aldi. Four rolls for £2. 20 ish. Pretty poor but just really used for vomit/ air fryer type stuff.

The 'miracle product' you need is old newspaper. That's what people used to use before kitchen roll became so widespread.

There's probably a TikTok by someone showing off their marvellous new recycling discovery ........

God, why would you absorb the fat from a burger? That's what makes if delicious and juicy.

Otherwise you just end up with a sad dry disc of depression in a bun...

I buy Blossom from Tesco. It’s 8 rolls for a couple of quid.

We hardly use it. A pack of two easily lasts a year+. I think it’s used for schnitzel ( once in a blue moon) and really dirty stuff like bike oil or gloss paint spills that don’t come off cloths.
Everything else people Mention I just use a cloth.

I can’t imagine people using it to dry kitchen counter after cleaning it, I mean it’s been cleaned, so just use a dry clean cloth to dry it.

We used washable nappies etc, so if cat was sick on floor i would just clean it with various cloths and soapy water

Yes! I remember using newspaper.

I'd rather not use newspaper or old towels to soak up the oil on top of a curry.
So I grab extra napkins whenever I can and keep those on hand.

That would require me to buy a newspaper, specially.

I buy mine in bulk from Costco it’s better quality although they have messed with it lately. We use too much as a family I’m trying to cut down.

I don't understand the 'just go reusable' answers either.

No I don't want to do 20 loads of washing like the rest of Mumsnet.

We use a little, but I’m trying to convince my husband to only use it for the things where a cloth isn’t practical - like wiping solid fat out of the frying pan before washing.
For things like wiping kitchen sides or cleaning spills/wee accidents we have microfibre cloths and all the muslins from when the kids were babies.
They all go in the wash with the tea towels once a week, it’s not loads of extra washing and muslins are so thin they dry really quickly.

Regina Blitz is around £3.50 a roll in supermarkets and we can make a roll last a week, sometimes more. If a piece has just been used a bit we keep it for the next spill.

Wood and waste has increased massively in price. The manufacturing process also has huge energy requirements. Then of course, transport costs have also gone up. Basically, every step of the process has seen huge cost increases, so increased shop prices is inevitable.

Get commercial blue roll or white roll. They sell them on amazon and in quite a few places physically

Regina is true to the name and totally rules over domestic rolls