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KeepYouInStitches (Sherry) mentioned this towel in another post. I've never heard of it before now. Is it some kind of a special towel, might I want it, and, if so, where do I get it?

It's another name for a dish towel. Regional it seems.

We call it a dish towel!

Martha

Yep...dish towel.

I have cup towels (for dishes) and kitchen towels (for hands). Do NOT confuse the two and use one of my white flour sack CUP towels to dry your hands. That is what the terry cloth KITCHEN towel is for. And whatever you do...do not use either to wipe a spill off the floor. That is what PAPER towels are for.

Linderhof is once again right. I would love to find some nice tea towels. The stores seem to only carry terry cloth dish towels.

Love my tea towels - bought some great ones several years ago. I also have my terry dish towels and separate terry hand towels.

still tryin, Look for what is marketed as "flour sacks." You can find them in places like Hobby Lobby and I would imagine Joann's. They are generally bundled in 6s or 12s.

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Originally posted by KeepYouInStitches:
still tryin, Look for what is marketed as "flour sacks." You can find them in places like Hobby Lobby and I would imagine Joann's. They are generally bundled in 6s or 12s.

I got some "flour sack" towels at Walmart a couple of years ago. I think it was a pack of 5. Seem to be about the same as when I was a kid & they were REAL flour sacks!

Learned something new here as I've never heard the term...moppine yes as I'm of Italian heritage and thanks to Rachael Ray it's gone mainstream.

You can find tea towels at gift stores and even Crate and Barrel.

A few sources for your towels.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Main...Towel-White/14938258

More selections here
http://www.towelsandhome.com/flour-sacks.html

More towels
http://www.americanchairstore....our-sack-towels.html

Last one for you!
http://www.vermontcountrystore...oursack_Towels/63272

Sherry,
I like your rules! My kitchen~My way!

OMG, I've been using cup towels all my life!! Who knew!

In fact, I've embroidered quite a few cup towels, too!

(I've just typed a "wink" with a semi-colon and a closing parenthesis from Idaho Resident's emoticon list. Now I'll see if it worked!)

I bought my first set of "flour sacks" towels at a "general" store in Delta Colorado a few years back. Since then I've seen them in several places.

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Originally posted by CA Lori:

(I've just typed a "wink" with a semi-colon and a closing parenthesis from Idaho Resident's emoticon list. Now I'll see if it worked!)

It worked, CA Lori!

For anyone who doesn't know about the emoticon list I posted since the ones here on the forum haven't worked for a long time, they DO WORK but you need the key code which I have posted recently (in its entirety) on the Pet Forum board including , , , , , and ~ check it out!

As for the names of towels? CUP towels, dish towels, kitchen towels, terry cloth towels, tea towels, paper towels and flour sack towels ~ and lions and tigers and bears ~ oh, my! Have to admit that I had never heard of CUP towels but the others are familiar!

Have mainly dish towels here with a few flour sack ones - the dish towels are decorative and work well for light-weight jobs but the flour sack ones are the "work-horse" of my kitchen! I bought the last ones I'm using now from the Vermont Country Store about 8 years ago - time to replace them....

Thanks, Beau Rose, for providing the link in your post above!

I've been using the WM flour sack towels for a few years now. they are really BIG, about twice the size of regular dish towels and lightweight but VERY absorbent. I toss them into a bleach load every so often and they look great even after the kids use them to wipe up floor spills.

Terry never seem to actually dry anything. so I save them for potholders etc.

IR, I noticed that your last emoticon on this thread isn't on your list. How to you get the smile with sunglasses?

Can't believe I forgot to list that one - It's colon cool colon!

I cut the flour sack towels in half then hem the raw edges. It makes them a more manageable size for me.

This is new to me, also! I have always used terry cloth towels for drying dishes. I thought that those flour sack clothes would not absorb the water.

I use terry cloth for hand towels, too.

Thank you for the links BR. I want to find the towels locally so I don't have to pay for shipping. I already have to pay 9 per cent tax on purchases.

Grapefruit the flour sacks absorb more water than the newer terry towels I have purchased. I wonder if it is fabric or the designs on the towels.

I'm fussy about my kitchen towels and it has become increasingly difficult to find good quality towels of any type and weight I like.

I don't buy cheap anything, but still is hard to find decent product.

Newest batch I purchased were from Williams Sonoma and Crate & Barrel.

Hint - don't use fabric softener or dryer sheets on cotton towels, it makes them less absorbent.

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Lurah is absolutely correct about fabric softener! I don't use it at all in my clothes or linens.

Fun thread! It wasn't until I married DH that I ever heard the term "cup" towel. Perhaps because he's a native Texas, and in NY, we call it a dish towel.

The best cup/dish towels we've ever found are at IKEA; 79 cents each for the TEKLA towel. They are the old-fashioned kind: lightweight cotton, strong, very absorbent and they even sport a neat woven red stripe. They leave no lint when drying glasses. We've been using them for years.

FWIW, these towels have gotten a lot of favorable reviews from Bon Appetit and cooking blogs.

You must visit the store to buy them; they are not sold online. Just found out they can be bought on Amazon for .49 each, but there will be shipping charges.

I never heard of cup towel either.

I've learned not to be too picky about my dish towels since I married DH. I just seem to 'go through' a lot of dish towels now

I stopped using fabric softener in my washer period! After many years, it built up in the interior of my machine and created a mess. Don't remember what exactly the mess was because this happened a couple of years ago and my memory's not what it used to be. Now I only use a Bounce sheet in my dryer.

I don't even use the softener sheets in the dryer. You need to wash your lint screen every so often. The chemical builds up on it and will hold water. If it's sealed off enough to do that, the air is not passing through.

As for DH using my "cup" towels...that is a big NO-NO in my house! He had to change his ways - it's my kitchen after all! I don't mess around in his shop...

I don't even want him using 'my' kitchen hand towel! When DH washes his hands at the kitchen sink (there's also a sink in his shop and two full bathrooms in the house which are too inconvenient for him to use...), he washes from his fingertips up as far as his shirt sleeves, then he dries all that, the back of his neck, his face AND his nose. When we bought our current home, I bought a towel holder that matches my cabinets. DH attached it to the end of a counter going into the office off the kitchen (his HAM radio equipment and computer is in there). The towel hung there is his. I try to grab it every time he uses it so that I can toss it in the wash...if I didn't change it out, he would use the same towel over and over and over and over and...

I've not heard of cup towels either.

I do know we go through many kitchen towels in our home. AND....since husband DOES create masterpieces in our kitchen, you can only imagine why.

OMG, Sherry, I was doing fine until I got to the part about the nose . . . IROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by aychihuahua:
The best cup/dish towels we've ever found are at IKEA; 79 cents each for the TEKLA towel. They are the old-fashioned kind: lightweight cotton, strong, very absorbent and they even sport a neat woven red stripe. They leave no lint when drying glasses. We've been using them for years.

FWIW, these towels have gotten a lot of favorable reviews from Bon Appetit and cooking blogs.

Good to hear! I bought a stack of them to use for decor but thought they might be too thin to use as tea towels. I've used them for table runners, placemats, and considered using them with clips as cafe curtains. I had seen them on a blog stacked as decor and liked the red stripe as use red accents in my kitchen. I'll start using them for their intended purpose.

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Originally posted by CA Lori:
OMG, Sherry, I was doing fine until I got to the part about the nose . . . IROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

SEE why I banned him from the other kitchen towels?! It's one of those things he does unconsciously. Same thing with dinner napkins. We use cloth napkins all the time. I don't normally change them out every meal. But when he wipes his nose...I mentioned it do him one time and he very indignantly said, "I do not!" After that meal he wiped his mouth, then his nose and never thought a thing about it. (He didn't blow his nose, but he always swipes his nostrils.)