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Washing kitchen linens...❓❓❓

house_cat — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:12:53 GMT

I've always done one load a week of whites. I use a long cycle with hot water and bleach. However, I've recently found a couple of long hairs on my clean dish towels... TOTALLY GROSSED ME OUT. I think hair in the kitchen is the most gag-worthy thing and I'm super careful about it, but never thought about the laundry. I'm ashamed that it has never occurred to me before now.

Do you wash your kitchen linens separately?

I cook a lot, but even so I think it would take a month before I had a full load of dish towels and micro-fiber dish cloths.

Do you have a separate hamper for kitchen things?

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fthunt — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:19:15 GMT

I only have a couple of drying kitchen towels so put in with load of bath towels. If the 'hair' is mine - I wouldn't get grossed out.......hair has been through the wash cycle = so should be clean.

Personally I'd never think to get upset.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:29:06 GMT

@house_cat We have a separate small hamper in the laundry room that holds kitchen towels and dishcloths until they get laundered. They getted washed alone, no bath towels.

DD and I seem to accumulate enough for a load quickly. We change kitchen towels daily and always have 2 or 3 a day. Same with microfiber cloths. I grab one instead of a paper towel most times.

DD and I both have a "thing" about kitchen towels and buy them too much. DD will come home with some and annouce, "I saw these and thought they were cute,pretty, etc".

We must have at least 40, we need a 12 step program.

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Reconnaissant — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:32:55 GMT

@house_cat

I share your thoughts on hair in the kitchen.

We wash our kitchen towels, pot holders, etc separately.

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ECBG — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:42:49 GMT

I always tie my hair back in the kitchen.

All of my towels in the house are white. Everything gets cloroxed together and dried. The nurse on our staff said no germ could survive the procedure.

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rockygems123 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:55:57 GMT

@house_cat

Yes, I wash my kitchen linens separately. It may be a small load but I prefer to wash bathroom & bedroom items on their own.

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KLm — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:58:37 GMT

I, too, wash kichen towels separately. Always have.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:05:20 GMT

Some people here are seriously germaphobic. Clorox will kill anything in the wash. You must not have pets.

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mizree — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:10:34 GMT

separately with bleach. i keep soiled kichen linens in laundry room until enough for small load. it is also the only laundry i do in hot water. i would not want to put kitchen linens in hamper with bath towels and underwear. even if i knew it was our hair and clean i would not want to find it on dish towel.

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lynnie61 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:11:19 GMT

@Retired Legal Secretary. Oh my, I need a 12 step program, too! I usually get them at kohl’s after the holidays, and get them on clearance + my coupon. Good quality. I’ve told family, please no more. I wash them with bath towels, but change every day or two. I always have two or three hanging on my stove handle. I probably have enough for life.

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Drythe — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:16:48 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Some people here are seriously germaphobic. Clorox will kill anything in the wash. You must not have pets.

@Kachina624

Do not read if you are germaphobic

I drew the line when I found DH washing the kitchen towels with dog beds. Guess no one will come eat at my home! 😶

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santorini — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:17:08 GMT

I do all towels together because they're the only items where I don't use fabric softener. I don't worry at all about a possible shower towel strand of hair being washed along with the kitchen towels.

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godi — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:05:26 GMT

I wash them with my towels.

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jannabelle1 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:40:52 GMT

Kitchen linens? I don't have any. I use microfiber clothes - one to dry hands and one for any small utensils that I've hand washed. When there are enough for a small load of laundry, I wash them usually once every 2 weeks.

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Sooner — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:00:46 GMT

Bath towels will be washed sometimes with jeans when we have a small load. But 95 percent of the time are washed just bath towels.

All kitchen cloths are washed separately with bleach. All bath towels and wash cloths washed separately with bleach. And they are not in a hamper together either.

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froggy — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:02:50 GMT

I wash my kitchen towels and tablecloths and placemats all together. I don't use bleach on anything.

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shoesnbags — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:42:39 GMT

So do all of you who are bleaching your kitchen towels only use white towels? My kitchen towels have pretty colors and patterns that I don't want to ruin with bleach. Same with the microfiber ones - they're all bright colors and I want them to stay that way. So all of our kitchen linens are washed separately in hot water, but no bleach. No bleach for my bathroom linens, either.

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QP Doll — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:49:48 GMT

I wash all towels together in hot water & lysol laundry disinfectant.

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furbabylover — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:50:26 GMT

@house_cat Between my husband and I, we go through 2-3 dish towels a day. I know it sounds like a lot, but its just what we do. So around day 5 I have 10-15 dish towels to put in the washer on "sanitize" and bleach. I always do them separately from other laundry.

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rockygems123 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 04:19:22 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Some people here are seriously germaphobic. Clorox will kill anything in the wash. You must not have pets.

@Kachina624

Not everyone can use bleach, I can't with asthma. I use unscented Tide and that's as wild as I can get lol.