Kitchen Towels
#11
For general use I buy the towels from the automotive section. A roll of 12 is around $6 here. Just white, square towels. We use them at the restaurant I work at too. They hold up well and are absorbent.
#12
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Central NJ
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Another suggestion, if available to you...a restaurant supply store. Like the auto shop towels that willis.debra mentions above. Not sure about any price difference between a restaurant supply shop and auto shop but I think from the restaurant supply they are a tad thinner than the shop towels. They are easier for my smaller hands to work with.
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Oak Point TX
Posts: 759
My son has a window washing service and he turned me on to the towels from the dollar store. They are not fancy, not large but do the job. The are usually sold by the auto supplies. All are white and a terry material.
#19
Kitchen towels are always on my Christmas and Birthday wish list that as a family we exchange for gift ideas. I usually get some nice towels as people generally spend a bit more to buy a nice present. I'm not talking about $60 towels. That's outrageous.
#20
I know just what you mean, thin and not very absorbent unless you want to spend a fortune at the high end stores. I needed a new ones but the budget didn't allow for them at the time, so went to the dollar store and got a bath towel, cut it into even sized pieces and did an overlock stitch around the raw edges (I don't have a serger). They may not be the prettiest but I made six nice, thick and thirsty dish towels for $3.50.
I use the terry ones for drying hands, and have a cotton flour sack type for drying dishes (which I rarely do). DH is under strict orders NOT to use it for anything else! If I am going to wipe dishes I want to know it is clean.
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