Kitchen towells

[Amielondon23]

So I went to my my friends garden yesterday for a cuppa after school and the kids played in the garden.
Her kitchen backs onto the garden- one of her boys went to dry his hands in a tea towel and my friend yelled at him ‘not the tea towel- that’s for the dishes!’ ‘Use the designated hand towel’

Random post! But do use all have a separate hand towel in the kitchen?
I just use a tea towel. I get through about 5 tea towels a day however I’m. Interesting if this is the done thing?

I’m interested *

Bleah! You don’t dry your hands on a tea towel. Tea towels are for dishes, hand towels are for hands.

We have separate hand and tea towels. It is good kitchen hygiene plus tea towels aren't very absorbent for drying hands.

Yup. Tea towel, for drying pots etc so it's 'clean' . Hand towel (bit like a bathroom towel but more kitcheny) for drying hands. Tea towel also doubles up as an oven 'glove' . The hand towels never do. Tea towels feel different to ordinary towels, they tend to be thinner and often have false claims of being absorbent.

Of course you have a towel. It’s unhygienic to clean hands on a tea towel. Your friend is right; tea towels are for dishes.

We use the tea towel, no separate hand towel. We’re obviously a very scummy family 🤣

I prefer a separate option but currently living with a kitchen so small you need a microscope to see it so I just don't have room for both to be out so I tea towel for both currently but dislike it and change it every day to reduce the ick factor.

We have two towels in the kitchen- a tea towel for dishes and a hand towel for drying hands.

Depends on the household, where it's normal for people to wash their hands at the kitchen sink then a hand towel makes sense.

This is one of those topics that MN collectively gets aerated about, but around which I can’t bring myself to give much of a shit.

I have a tiny kitchen and only hanging space for one thing. So I have a tea towel and that’s it. Ergo I do occasionally dry my hands on the tea towel.

That said, we don’t generally wash hands in the kitchen sink, so it doesn’t happen very often.

Just tea towels here, which in the main is used for drying hands as the dishwasher dries the dishes.

We use separate hand and tea towels. But I do sometimes use the tea towel, seemingly without any danger to self or family, to dry my hands if DP has wandered off with the hand towel, which he does frequently and which disproportionately pisses me off.

So what people are saying is that even in these Covid times that after washing their hands they’re actually still dirty.
The same washed hands that they then use for food prep.

Ahhh! Ok will be getting some separate hand towels for kitchen!

Separate hand towels,

We have a dishwasher so most of the dishes go in that but there's always a tea-towel on the go. Don't have a separate hand towel; how are clean hands any different than clean dishes?
But as PP had mentioned I get though at least a couple of tea-towels in a day; as soon as it gets too wettobe effective, I chuck it into the washing machine rather than hang it to dry.

My ex partner used to drive me mad as he used tea towels for drying his hands, wiping work surfaces and even his face if he was warm from cooking. Small kitchen but we had a hand towel in the utility two steps away and we had dishcloths for wiping round.

We only have tea towels, but we rarely dry dishes. They're either in the dishwasher or left on drainer to dry. If after a party or Sunday roast we need to dry dishes, we just get a clean one out of the drawer and use that.

No seperate hand towel and don’t know anyone who has one. But drying hands is really just after washing dishes, dirty hands tend to get washed in the loo.

Always have a hand towel and a tea towel. I'd rather use each for what they're intended for.

Never occurred to me to have separates.

We have a dishwasher, and washed hands are clean hands

@Amielondon23

So I went to my my friends garden yesterday for a cuppa after school and the kids played in the garden. Her kitchen backs onto the garden- one of her boys went to dry his hands in a tea towel and my friend yelled at him ‘not the tea towel- that’s for the dishes!’ ‘Use the designated hand towel’

Random post! But do use all have a separate hand towel in the kitchen?
I just use a tea towel. I get through about 5 tea towels a day however I’m. Interesting if this is the done thing?

We do the same. Once the tea towel is damp it gets shoved in the washing machine and we bring another one out. I dont have space for hand towels and tea towels

@LividJabber

Never occurred to me to have separates.

We have a dishwasher, and washed hands are clean hands

Agree, I don’t understand the difference between a washed hand and a washed dish, they are both washed.

I have kitchen towels for drying hands. They are really really hard to find tho. I got a couple from Dunelm a few years ago and one has gone awol :(

Tea towels are linen or fine cotton; kitchen towels are a small towel. So it's about the fabric rather than clean or dirty hands. But if lots of ppl don't do this, maybe that's why I can't find them!

I think if you are using 5 tea towels a day what is the point of another hand towel as what on earth can be on your tea towels if you are drying clean hands. If having a hand towel will reduce your washing to one tea towel a day I don't think you need to change what you are doing . Only rule I have is a clean tea towel for covering food every time.