lint free cloths or paper towels?
jiggreen
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Comments (27)Lily, huck toweling? Just googled it and hard to tell what it is... Can you enlighten me? About microfiber, honestly I cannot stand the way that stuff feels on my hands, it's similar to chalk on a blackboard and it snags on cuticles. I have to wear a pair of disposable latex gloves when using them -- which sort of defeats the purpose of using something re-useable, LOL. I just noticed yesterday that the horizontal part of my PT holder is covered with PT dust. It has been up in this house for a year. It's a very nice one from Ballard Designs and was up in my last house for 2-3 years and never got any dust on it at all. It's definitely little PT fibres....See MoreIsland prep sinks- where do you keep your paper towels?
Comments (6)For the most part, I've rid my family of paper towel use. There was a thread not so long ago about how to cut down on paper towel use. I do keep a roll on a free standing holder that occasionally gets put out when I've got something nasty to clean up on the floor or the like. For an island prep sink you've only got a few options: -freestanding, holder or no -genius niche in cabs -holder mounted to inside of sink base door -someplace else in the kitchen, like Rhome...See MorePaper towel alternatives
Comments (22)I am raising two young grands...I go thru tons of paper towels which is why I made the switch to cloth. My bathrooms are stocked with a large'ish basket filled with cheap white face cloths rolled neatly for drying hands. A clean one each time and I've found guests expecially appricate this instead of using a community towel. I do not wash any kitchen towels with bath towels ever. I know we all have some amounts of ecoli near our....area....LOL. All of my towels, kitchen, bath, hands are white. I enjoy the clean fresh look of white. Elizabeth, as for frying foods I use paper towels, but I do little frying as it makes me ill smelling hot oil. I always have a few brown paper bags and next rare time I decide to be expecially nice to the family and fry something I'll use your method. Sounds like a great idea. As for the toilet. My hubs brings me stacks of cloth like disposable cloths home from work they work great for the toilets which get wiped down daily, boys ya know. Lets touch on disinfection while were talking about kitchen towels. Its a good idea to either use thermal or chemical disinfection since many times kitchen towels are exposed to raw meats or other foods with risks of bacterias. In other words either wash them on a sanitize cycle that truely heats the water to the proper temps (not all washers with a sanitize cycle actually engage the heater, some manufactures LIE) or use chlorine bleach unless your sure the towels wernt exposed to dangerous bacterias. Its really not difficult to keep white kitchen towels white, just don't be a cold water person. LOL...See MoreFluff post: prints on paper towels, napkins
Comments (38)I don't think I've even seen printed paper towels in a couple of years. I usually only order online at Target or Walmart so they will ship them and I get free shipping or I buy them at Target. I've always been cautioned to buy white toilet paper because the dyes cause problems for some women. I either have that shipped or buy at Costco. I only buy Kirkland brand or Scott brand although I currently have a case of Charmin because my neighbor gave me her stuff when she moved....See Moremustangs81
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