Really greasy tea towels

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DP has used some tea towels to drain fried food on, as we don't keep paper kitchen towels. I have only realised because the dryer smells like a chippy.
Argh! About 5 tea towels (including 2 I am quite sentimental about) are stiff with grease, despite just having has a wash at 60. What do I dooooooo?????
Have I wrecked the dryer? Will it burst into flames? And will the tea towels ever come clean? And if so, how????
Heeelp!!!

I would soak them for a few hours in very hot water with a lot of washing up liquid, then wash at 40 in bio detergent.

(With very greasy oven gloves I put neat washing up liquid on the greasy bits, let it soak in for ages, & then scrub them with a bit of hot water before washing in machine)

It will come out eventually, honest

I second washing up liquid. I use fairy on anything greasy. :)
Soaking in Astonish paste works well too, for the brushes I use to clean greasy things with...

Thank you Violey and Low!
I have soaked them overnight with loads of washing up liquid (and in the meantime re-washed the rest of the load). Helpfully we had a wet bed overnight, so that's washing at the moment- tea towels of doom going in next...

Thank you Violey and Low!
I have soaked them overnight with loads of washing up liquid (and in the meantime re-washed the rest of the load). Helpfully we had a wet bed overnight, so that's washing at the moment- tea towels of doom going in next...