Do you wash your bathroom towels with your kitchen towels?

[Bluerose27]

Just that really.
I like to keep on top of washing, especially when the sun is shining. So today I had half a load of bathroom towels and half a load of kitchen towels so I threw them all in on a high temperature.

I feel like it's two different types of germs mixing though.

But I feel a bit silly as I type this. If I'm crazy to worry about this please let me know gently!!

Towels here go in together ... bathroom and bath mats, kitchen (including microfibre cloths), half bathroom.

Zoflora linen clean and a hot wash.

They'll be fine. I've always washed all towels and cloths together at a high temperature as have my parents. Don't use much detergent (makes them hard) and no conditioner.

no....I'm extremely slack in the household department, but I was tea towels and washing up sponges/cloths at 60 with bio powder (and nothing else)- bath/hand towels I wash at 40 or 30 depending what else is in with them.

Eh?

I just shove a Load in. Towels, clothes, bed linen; whatever is to hand.

No. Kitchen towels are done separately on a high wash.

I just put things in the washing machine together

I was all towels together at 60 with biological powder. You could put some Dettol laundry cleanser or Zoflora if you are concerned about germs

What NapQueen said...

I only use towels once and they all go in together

I just chuck in anything that needs washing - bathroom towels, kitchen towels, clothes, bedding - and stick it on at 40. Everything gets clean!

Bedding seems to consume things so have always washed and if tumbling done them separately. I was up to four beds over a week, sometimes more as I do a holiday cottage changeover.

Towels are always done seperately.

All in regardless here too.
You all must be endlessly washing!

Eh? People wash their kitchen towels and bathroom towels separately

What on earth for?????

I wash all my towels together, at 90 degrees granted, but I have never ever considered that I should separate them

Yes, all in together at 95.

I wash towels (bathroom or kitchen), tea towels, kitchen cloths and bedding all together. Always wash them on a hot wash and maybe put a little bit of disinfectant in the wash too if they seem grotty.

And I don't have specific 'kitchen towels' or 'bathroom towels'. All my towels are either white or blue and I have no idea which is which.

All in together on a hot wash.

Washing bathroom towels at 30 is disgusting, there must be all sorts of faecal bacteria and skin fungus all over them

No, kitchen towels and oven glove on a high temp wash.
Towels separate - 40 degree
Bed linen separate - 60 degree
Bath mats and bath cleaning cloths separate - 40 degree
Whites separate - 40 degrees
Colours 40 degrees seperate.
More delicate tops 30 degrees separate.

Machine is never not on. Looking at the seperate categories like that, must be mad.

Each person's towel bundle gets washed on their laundry day along with their bedding.
Guest bedding and towels are done the day after they leave.
Pool and post gym towels are washed daily with people just putting them in the skip after use.
Kitchen towels are washed daily with tea towels and dishcloths on a hot wash.

They're the only things that can go in on a really hot wash - 60+ - so yes, all together. For some illogical reason I am OK with chucking kitchen cloths/tea towels in with bathroom towels and bathmats, flannels etc. but would not put the bedding in the same load. Totally illogical and the whole point is the stuff comes out clean! But as bedding always makes up a full load anyway I don't really have to dwell on it.

If you don't want to wash stuff together don't - but the germs and dirt aren't going to "transfer". If your washing machine doesn't get all the stuff in it clean and hygienic, why are you using it in the first place?

Eh?

I just shove a Load in. Towels, clothes, bed linen; whatever is to hand.

Oh, thank fuck. I always think I'm going insane on these threads!

We have highly efficient machines designed to clean fabrics at a high temperature, siphon the dirty water, then rinse them again in clean water.

I am pretty confident that such a machine can handle tea towels and bath towels simultaneously without risk to my health.

Yes all in together (subject to separating the colours that run) and I put them on a 60 degree wash. We are all still alive and in good health after several decades of this practice of mixing botty germs with other germs...

Surely the easiest is to just put some disinfectant into the wash

I do the lot at 30, sometimes do the towels at 40 for a treat but modern machines get things clean and hygienic at low temperatures so washing higher just seems a waste of energy to me.