To think kitchen roll is too expensive to use more than one sheet?

[reql]

I buy good kitchen roll because I find the own brand stuff to be rubbish. This means it can be 2-3 pence per sheet. I use it sparingly. I use a cloth to wipe things up, but you need kitchen roll sometimes.

DP loves the stuff. He uses multiple sheets at a time. For example, if he brought me a piece of fruit like a peach, he'd rip off two maybe three pieces of kitchen roll to use as a plate. If he spills something, he'll use a few sheets because he doesn't like the spilt food getting near his hands.

AIBU to think that this stuff, is too bloody expensive to use multiple sheets? He says I am a scrooge, and it's become a joke amongst friends not to use more than one sheet of kitchen roll.

We don't use napkins, very few people do these days

Washable cloths and no kitchen roll here.

Washable cloths, plates, hide kitchen rolls for really horrible jobs eg cleaning up after pets

Jesus wait until you hear about the cotton handkerchiefs people used to use rather than tissues!

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I do t use napkins except for fancy meals, I have disposable napkins in various colours and qualities plus cloth napkins for if i want to impress

Oh and I chuck the cloths in the washing machine and they get washed with whichever load comes next, just like tea towels, I do recommend having some blue roll too, handy for really mucky jobs, we keep it in the garage. I have Lidl's own brand kitchen roll which is adequate

Some of us still do, although I admit it's a bit niche nowadays 😁

And yes, they go in a normal wash.

We have tea towels, cloths for wiping and cloth napkins for messy food. Never bought kitchen roll.

When I had a cat and decapitated mice were a thing, I’d just use rubber gloves when disposing of one. And a washable cloth, because washing machines.

And how many minor wounds are people needing to staunch?

I think it’s one of those things that if you have it around, you invariably use it for everything and find uses for it; if it’s not in the house you manage and discover you’ve got plenty of non-disposable things that do the same job. I get rid of pan grease by leaving to set then scraping into the bin with a rubber spatula.

I buy value kitchen roll
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I also buy reusable cloths from home bargains.

Agree with this - if it's there, I end up using it!
Scrape grease etc into the bin.
Wipe spills etc with a cloth or a dish sponge
I guess i very occasionally need it for messy food but again, just use one of the millions of microfibre cloths we have.

People who are freaking out about cloths going in the washing machine… does your washing machine not wash very well? If things are coming out still dirty/‘contaminated’ then I don’t think your machine is very good 😬

Who has newspaper? There hasn’t been any in this house for years. Just put him in charge of buying and paying for kitchen roll @reql then he can do what he likes with it.

I’ve always used cloth napkins, but I was brought up using cloth napkins (in my 50s). Mine are linen ones which belonged to my gran so are older than me 😂

^^ This. Blue roll is dirt cheap, and a six-pack lasts months.

Kitchen roll is one of the things I treated myself to after years in shared houses. A roll wouldn't last two seconds there. I use it sparingly though. Nearly had conniptions when a friend gave a whole piece of kitchen roll to each child and it wasn't even mine.

so if you are eating with hands eg tacos what do you do with your dirty hands?

My ex used to tear off 3 or 4 sheets, with wet hands (leaving a big wet thumbprint on the roll!) to dry his hands...

I don't have it any more - I have a dispenser with the blue workshop roll in it, which is cheaper, and because it's dispensed, it's harder to grab too many sheets and it's impossible to get the roll damp.

Cloths/teatowels/napkins in general, then blue stuff for those times when I don't want to get a cloth that dirty (eg. dabbing steak dry or wiping grease out of a pan to use it again)

My MIL used to boil them in a big pot on a Monday morning 😩

I only use kitchen roll for absorbing fat when cooking. We use napkins, actual cloth ones for meals and cloths for everything else. If I wash fruit or veg then it gets dried with a tea towel. I have loads of them for this reason. Same with dishcloths. It all goes into a tub in the utility and then into the washing machine once a week along with other kitchen towels ie tea towels and hand towels.

It doesn't need a high temperature wash because I use Dettol laundry sanitiser and tumble dry it all on high heat. We have Costco kitchen roll as it is massive and really thick.

Use and reuse! First use as napkins with meals/snacks, reused for sweeping up crumbs from tables and benches and final use as floor rags. There are always food bits and spilt bits on the kitchen floor after meal prep; a quick spray, wipe up with said napkins and into the bin they go.

This made me laugh. Even before col crisis this was always an ongoing joke with me and my lovely late sister.

"Wow, you've got kitchen roll?! Must be pay day!" Counted as a luxury item to us anyway!

And yes it is too expensive and I regularly tell my teenager off for wasting it.

Ex uses loads of it. I use mainly cloths other than for wiping out fat from pans. Old kids pants are used for cleaning mouldy windows in winter then chucked in the compost. Old kitchen sponges for cleaning surfaces not in the kitchen, then for the floor when older,floor etc. Drove me bat shit when he used to use loads. I probably ought to use old cotton cloths for other cleaning too and dishcloth for washing up. (Old t shirts/school shirts/pants/vests/holey sheets)

My washing machine is perfectly good but wouldn’t remove all the stains from tea towels if I used them for grease and highly coloured foods on a regular eco wash. I don’t believe anyone’s does that. I don’t care about stained cloths but I don’t want stained linen/ towels. Soaking in bleach should be a last resort as it’s terrible for aquatic life.
kitchen roll is fab for a few uses- blotting food without leaving fibres, grease, blood/vomit, emergency mop up of large spillages as it’s so much more absorbent than cloths. If you put liquid fat/ grease straight in the bin it escapes the bin bag. I haven’t had a printed newspaper in years!

This.

Tho the odd time we end up with a bit of kitchen roll it does feel like a massive luxury!

I put pan grease and oil into a used jar. Once it's semi full I then throw it away.

You are buying a manufactured product that creates masses of C02 and is often plasticised so tastes 100+ years to decompose AND then you throw it in the bin. The entire point of kitchen roll is that it's a disposable single use product. It's ALL waste? So the only feasible option is to just use a washable cloth and then that removes ALL waste 🤷🏼‍♀️😂