Most boring thread ever. I promise you.

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How do you keep your dishcloths fresh?

We use a sponge (with a scoury side), a scourer, a jcloth and a brush. We wash-up maybe twice a day, and bin/wash cloths once a week or so.

In between times we fill the sink with hot water and bleach and the cloths/brushes, once or twice a week.

We always rinse them after each use - but they never dry properly (they get put in the mini rinsing sink between uses). So we rinse them again before using them.

We use antibacterial Fairy liquid.

I HATE hanging the jcloth over the taps.

What do you do differently? Is there any cool kit which’ll make my washing up more fun?

i put them in the dishwasher regularly, and bung in the wash again, regularly. i have loads. teatowels too. i dont use bleach at all.

They go in a hot wash.

My MIL wets them and puts them in the microwave. Not metal scourers obviously.

I use microfibre cloths and once I've cleaned the kitchen with one it goes in the washing machine (after being rinsed). I'm not happy to use it again without a wash but I'm sure I'm about to be told that putting dishcloths in with clothes is gross.

After using the cloth to wipe down the side I rinse off the crumbs etc and then sqeeze a bit of washing up liquid on it, squish it a bit and whispershangitoverthetap
The brush gets washed in the dishwasher every now and then. The green scourer did as well a few days ago but that was by accident - I didn't realise it was in a pan.

I buy blue dishcloths in big packs and change them every couple of days, throwing the old Ines away

Clean dishcloth every morning and I bleach the green scourer every night

But we do have a dishwasher

My dishcloths get washed at 60 with the towels

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2680928/Which-household-item-dirtier-toilet-60-DISHCLOTHS-harbour-life-threatening-bacteria-UKs-filthiest-world.html

www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/cloths.pdf

MsHarvey that's a hell of a lot of landfill.

I use 2/3 dishcloths a day, then they get chucked in the kitchen laundry bin and washed at 60 once a week

I read an article a while ago that said microwaving or putting sponges in the dishwasher actually makes matters worse as it kills off some bacteria but makes more space for the more resistant (worse) bacteria to take over can't find the exact article but this link says something similar.

Think this might have been the article www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/science/sponges-bacteria-microwaving-cleaning.html

Dishcloths & tea towels are (in my house) single use only, then they go on a rail/radiator to dry & when dry get put in a kitchen laundry bag. They get washed on a very hot wash & not with anything else.

Dishbrush gets washed/rinsed in extremely hot water & frequently replaced.

It turns out I’m more scuzzy than I’d anticipated. I’m in awe of you people with kitchen laundry bins! And drying them before they go in there...(Of course it makes sense, it’d get stinky otherwise).

I worry about landfill too (see another of my very boring threads about how to reduce waste in our house). But I think the actual answer is to buy better dishcloths (better than Waitrose Essential jcloths) and wash them (hot) every day or so.

I promise I’m quite neat, tidy and clean in most ways... or least I think I am!

Boil them in a pan with some washing detergent, makes the kitchen smell good too

Holy shit! I do none of this! Not killed us though....

I use old fashioned cotton ones. They get bleached occasionally. I put them in boiling water and wash them and the tea towels in biological washing powder and hot water. Keeps them fresh. I have a big supply and change them everyday and wash the lot together when I have a bigger pile to do. We have no dishwasher, though, (and a family of six) so will get through a couple of dishcloths and several tea towels a day.

yellowplum I like the idea of the old fashioned cotton ones, but they feel really clunky and heavy in my hand after a jcloth. Maybe I need to be less of a weakling. Too weak for washing-up cloths. Poor me.