where do you hang your kitchen towels?

[Anonymous]

I bought a magnetic towel rack for the front of the oven door. I feel if I tuck the towel in the fridge handle, it won't dry properly, and I can't abide that. None of my other appliances have handles with a gap.

[Anonymous]

Oven

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, how did the dish towel ruin the oven door?

I'm wondering this, too. If you're using it to dry dishes so much that it gets soaking wet, shouldn't it go straight into the hamper?

[Anonymous]

We have a towel bar on the end of our kitchen island, before that I always used the oven handle door. A wet dishrag would go over the kitchen faucet and a wet towel goes in the laundry room to be washed, so I have never put a towel that was more than damp out to dry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how did the dish towel ruin the oven door?

I'm wondering this, too. If you're using it to dry dishes so much that it gets soaking wet, shouldn't it go straight into the hamper?

I'm wondering how the door got ruined too, but why would a wet dishtowel go into the hamper rather than be left to dry out? Why do people re-use bath towels then, which have far more bacteria than dishtowels used to dry clean dishes? (Before someone points out that human bodies are also clean when they are dried, they are also alive, and impart bacteria into the towel.)

[Anonymous]

Nail in the wall next to the sink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how did the dish towel ruin the oven door?

I'm wondering this, too. If you're using it to dry dishes so much that it gets soaking wet, shouldn't it go straight into the hamper?

OP here. We hung the towel to used dry your hands on the oven. I don't think it was the hanging towel itself that was the problem; it was the water splash every time you swung over from the sink to dry your hands. The water would run down the front of the oven door and eventually the bottom of the door got all rusty! Regardless, DH (who is the chef in the house) has declared no towel on the oven door this time, so I'm looking around the room for other options. We also have a new wood floor, so minimizing water splash all over that every time we reach for the towel. I think it would be best to have it right near the sink somewhere.

I never thought I would be putting so much thought into this issue.

[Anonymous]

There are racks you can hang over a cupboard door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a towel bar on the end of our kitchen island, before that I always used the oven handle door. A wet dishrag would go over the kitchen faucet and a wet towel goes in the laundry room to be washed, so I have never put a towel that was more than damp out to dry.

That sounds really cute!

[Anonymous]

Can I follow-up with another question? How often do people wash their ktichen towels? and do you just throw it in themachine with almost nothing else in there? Do you jsut use the kitchen towel to dry your hands after washing the dishes? All silly questions but all things I've wondered. My mom was never a fan of them so I always see them in other people's kitchens.

[Anonymous]

The oven door which is close to the sink. When you wash your hands, you give a quick shake to shake off the dripping water and then you walk 2 steps to the oven door to get the towel. I also wanted a towel next to the cooktop, so I got one of those command strip hooks and put one on the wall next to the cooktop. Works great and you can move it if you need.

[Anonymous]

Wolf oven handle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I follow-up with another question? How often do people wash their ktichen towels? and do you just throw it in themachine with almost nothing else in there? Do you jsut use the kitchen towel to dry your hands after washing the dishes? All silly questions but all things I've wondered. My mom was never a fan of them so I always see them in other people's kitchens.

I only use a kitchen towel for a day at most (usually less, so I go through 2-3 per day) before it goes into the laundry. I don't hang towels anywhere per the previous conversation. Clean ones are so in a drawer. Used ones are on the counter. Dirty ones are in the wash.

[Anonymous]

If you have a counter overhang you can put a command strip or hook on the underside and hang the towel from that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are racks you can hang over a cupboard door.

DH has vetoed those also.