Monday, August 1, 2016

How to clean dish towels

If you use very hot water to rinse your dishes, before you drain the hot water you can rinse out the dishtowel in that. Then, if you hang it up to dry (even on the faucet), and it can get thoroughly dry between uses, then you can use the dishrag all week, and wash it with your other towels.

If it doesn't get dry, though (or you can't be bothered to rinse it in VERY hot water), I would change it everyday. If you can hang it up somewhere, then you can do them all at once at the end of the week.

Dishtowels (the ones for wiping dry dishes) probably should be changed daily. We had a system where we'd use the "old" towel for draining dishes, and grab a fresh one for wiping. Then the wiping towel would be hung up on a hook, and the draining towel was draped on the laundry basket.

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