Kitchen Towels

[HoneyNut]

In my current house the oven is closer to the sink than the refrigerator, so my kitchen towel is on the oven door (with a clothes pin to keep it from being accidentally slid off). The dish towel is also sometimes on the oven door, if it is drying and I plan to reuse it. I have a couple kitchen towels that have holiday themes, and I get very disappointed with myself if the holiday passes and I forgot to use the towel (oh no, just realized Valentine's Day has passed and I forgot to use that towel!).

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I have two hooks on the side of my cabinet that isn't in direct view where I hang my towels. When you enter my kitchen the first thing you see is the stove and my towels aren't something you would want on display. Bleach stains, ragged edges, a hole or two and Christmas towels I use in August.
The only thing I can say about them is that I wash them frequently and they are always clean.
When I'm done with a towel its to far gone for the rag bag.
I have a hand towel right under the sink for drying our hands.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I don't like seeing kitchen towels hanging on something that people wind up brushing against (who knows where they've been wearing those clothes). And if they have dogs that jump up or have the run of the kitchen, forget it. I definitely wouldn't dry my dishes with a dish towel that's been hanging and brushed against. I use paper towels most times to dry my hands. I use dish towels sometimes to dry my hands and have a protruding towel rack to hand them on. I never use dish towels to dry the dishes. When I have to dry the dishes, which most time isn't necessary because they air dry in the dishwasher, I use paper towels.

I have some decorative ones. One even had some glitter on it....it was so pretty I had to get it. I had gotten some white and green ones because I have green countertops. Some are getting worn because they were my mother's. My sister has sets of dish towels and napkins for every holiday.

 

[katlupe]

I have two hanging on my oven handle. One is navy blue and one is white. I bought decorative ones with parrots on them but could not bare to use them so they are in a drawer now. I do not use them to dry my hands though, paper towels for that.

 

[Gary O']

I have an assortment of kitchen towels but most of the time I use these inexpensive blue stripe bar mops.

Bar towels

Those are the BEST
The very best

Good all around for everything

I learned this early on when I lived in bars
They'd give 'em to me around 2AM
(or I just took them.....can't remember)

Do you have a dish towel and a hand towel?

Are they decorative?

My lady makes her own

Decorative, yet functional

(she made a huge one for me.....I'm 'Mr Sloppy')