What’s not hygenic about a tea towel Annie?
If you don’t want water marks on yer pots and cutlery you need to dry and polish them with a nice clean tea towel. I despair at stained cutlery when we go out for a meal when they come straight from the dishwasher into the cutlery tray. And I can’t abide a water stained glass.
In our house only Mrs fox and me handle the tea towels, and they get washed when they have been used a couple of times.
The best advice so far…
The dishwasher has a drying cycle and the dishes come out looking fine. But if you’re talking about tea towel shine then you need a linen glass tea towel or you end up with lint everywhere. Another reason I don’t like teatowels. But in general I don’t think I would be happy with a teatowel unless I had boil washed it on the stove for several hours. I’m not as fussy about bathroom towels as about anything that might go near food.
Totally. Sharing towels is a great way to spread infections and viruses.
Boli washed it on the stove for several hours .?
Whatever do you do to your tea towels !
You can get a detol additive if you are that worried
Your electricity bill must be huge
I do share towels with MR M
We sleep in the same bed so any virus es don’t have to wait for the towels.
The bills are ok because I don’t use tea towels except to line a tray & stop spills. If I did use them on dishes, they would need to be boiled before I was happy they were clean (but I don’t so it’s not a problem).
The concept itself is impractical. As you are wiping dishes the towel becomes increasingly damp so it becomes pointless. I’m also not keen on dishrags for the same reason. I realise most people aren’t as fussy as me when it comes to food and kitchen hygiene. I guess everyone is different and I’m not as fussy as some others about bathroom towels (except when it comes to sharing…).
Do you ever use cash ?
Money must carry more germs than a tea towel, .
How about supermarket trolleys
Do you wipe them down before use?
( I did during covid )
Washing towels? Every leap year, whether the towels need it, or not!
To sanitizer towels and any other clothes it’s not necessary to boil them .
Just add an antibacterial sanitizer like Dettol this kills viruses and bacteria ( including the covid one ) even at very low temperatures.
It’s a multi tasking thing Muddy. Us blokes seem to have a very poor reputation in that respect so I thought I’d put things to rights … one lump or two?
Thank you I’ll pass 
Handwashing before cooking works pretty well for any/ all those circumstances.
I’m getting the feeling that my prejudice against tea towels doesn’t wash with you 
ALL our towels of strong paper and only used once then disposed of?
I wash towels about every 3 or four days.
I like a bit of dry humour
Try Sainsburys antibac it’s cheaper
Clickbait … GRRR
Hi
I dump them in the washing bin after every use, they are not washed until the bin is full.
