Tea towels! Help settle a debate between DH and I

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Lighthearted!

One of us uses tea towels to dry dishes and dry kitchen sides AFTER they have been cleaned.

One of us uses tea towels to soak up spilt drink on the floor, to dry off potatoes after they've been rinsed before making chips or roasties, to wipe sides of spillages before they've been cleaned.

Who is right?

I’m the former and everyone else has n my house is the latter, I just don’t care any more.

I would use them for both purposes (but not the same tea towel). I tend to leave washing up to air dry though as I thought that was more hygienic?

It's definitely wrong to use the same cloth to wipe the floor and the dishes you'll eat from!

Both, but when used for a dirty job, ie spilled drink, they go straight in the wash

Both are correct in my book as long as you don’t do both with the same towel without washing

im fine with all those things except the tea towel on the floor.
I presume the tea towel goes in the wash after drying the potatoes or mopping something up and if the potatoes are being dried it’s a clean tea towel not one that has dried any plates ?

The person who uses them for floor spillages is right.

I never use a tea towel to dry dishes. I leave them to air dry. I also use tea towels for drying the sides, drying spuds, mopping up spillages etc.

If I know the tea towel is fresh out il use the same one for drying the side and then perhaps drying the spuds the next day. If the tea towel's been used for a spill, I wouldn't use it again til it's been washed.

We do both, but once a tea towel has been used for something messy it would go straight in the washing pile and I'd get a fresh one out.

If it has only been used for drying it would probably get replaced every few days, but they rarely last that long before it's called to mop something up!

We have a grubby tea towels for dirty jobs and nice ones for the clean ones so both #OnTheFence

For both and everything and anything

They're tea towels

If I use them for dirtier jobs, they go straight in the washing machine. Or rather, in the cupboard under the sink to wait until I’m doing a suitable wash.,

And yes if I need a tea towel for something food related I'll get a clean one out.

Personally I don't have any issue with using them on the floor. They get washed before they are used for anything else and so as far as I'm concerned they're clean.

both, first couple of uses its dishes and sides, then it'll get used for the other jobs before going in the wash.

Obviously fresh tea towels for each task

I'm the former. DH is the latter. You are right.
A kitchen cloth is to clean up spills.

If there's a spill, I'll grab the currently used tea towel to mop it up (as long as it's not one of my favourites - they never get used on the floor), then throw that in the wash and get a new one for drying the dishes.
So both are right.

Tea towels for the former

Stack of ancient baby muslins for the latter

Both

Both are fine but if my tea towels clean up spills and wipe the floor they go immediately in the wash

A tea towel or dish cloth should never be used to clean stuff off a floor unless it has been relegated to the 'cleaning' cloths pot.

A clean t towel should be used for food.

A t towel used to wipe dishes can then be used for work tops but then goes in the wash.

I’m with @minipie and I’m pleased to see I’m not the only one who still has muslins around for this purpose 😃

So one of you (him) will wipe the floor with a tea towel then use it to dry food? I mainly only use the tea towel for drying dishes but I occasionally use it for drying fruit or lettuce, but when I do I use a fresh one.

I use them for drying washed veg. I also use them on worktops before they go into the wash, during normal food prep type stuff.

I would never use a tea towel on the floor. I have old towels kept in a pile for floor spills, using on garden chairs that are wet etc.

So one of you (him) will wipe the floor with a tea towel then use it to dry food?

This is gross isn't it?!