Topic: boil washing dish cloths?

[aquilegia]

Couldn't work out where to post this!

How do you boil wash cotton dish cloths?

I have a 95C cycle on my washing machine, but it seems a bit of a waste to put a few dish cloths in it each week. I could bulk it up with tea towels, but even so - not enough.

Can I wash them on the stove? Should I use detergent? How long to boil them for? Will it be ok to use a cooking pan (I haven't got any spares)?

[Merry Tiller]

What are you going to have 'em with, chips? ;D

[Palustris]

Certainly would not boil them in a pan with detergent as the taste of the detergent would stay in the pan forever. Why not try dropping them into boiling water with a little bleach added( in a bucket) and leave to steep over night. That should make them sterile.

[Doris_Pinks]

I do the same as Eric, and use an old ice cream tub with cold water and bleach overnight. Stick my scrubby brush thingy in with it too! DP

[Carol]

Well I keep my dish sponge clean but every day I stick it into the microwave for 2 minutes.   I have read about this tip in a magazine.  We are still here.   ;D ;D ;D ;D.  I also do the soaking in bleach as well. 

[Hex]

miltons sterilising fluid in cold water for 30 mins.

apparently if you iron them it kills the germs too - but i have never tried.......

[Doris_Pinks]

My brushes often go int eh dishwasher to sterilise............iron my cotton dish cloths, blimey then I would have to start on the underwear! :o

[Mrs Ava]

Hell fire, I must be germ infested then.  Tea towels go in the washing machine daily, scrubby thingy goes in the dishwasher whenever it goes on, and a new washing up spongey thingy a couple of times a week! 

And DP, you made me chuckle as my darling Ava ironed a few work shirts for himself, and picked up and ironed a tea towel!  I told him I shall save it for a special occassion as it is the only tea towel I have ever owned to see the under side of an iron!  ;D

[kenkew]

I must be a big Nancy then. When I help out with ironing I iron everything in the basket.....everything, even under-keks.

[Doris_Pinks]

Ken, would you like to move into my house?? ;D  ;D

[Granny_Smith]

Aqui - try your local car boot sales. There are usually odd saucepans for sale cheap. Get one and keep it just for boiling the dishcloths and tea towels.

[Gadfium]

This can work quite well:

Milton to knock the bugs on the head, then a normal wash to clean the dish cloths.

or, like Granny says... an old pan purely for the dish clouts.

[beejay]

When I remember I pop mine in the dishwasher.

[Amazin]

Treat them the same as for terry nappies...er...not that I remember them of course (ahem!)

 ;)

[Derek]

BEWARE..Household bleach will rot cotton cloths in no time.
Dissolves wool too so don't use it on a wool carpet to remove stains either!

Derek

[supernan]

 :) I can't understand all the fuss!!

All of us are out there hands in mud, compost and worse you can't boil yer hands.................................

[moonbells]

I must be a big Nancy then. When I help out with ironing I iron everything in the basket.....everything, even under-keks.

<innocent look> what's an iron? </innocent look>

moonbells

[BAGGY]

I don't do ironing.  It has a plug on the end, therefore it's a power tool, therefore it's a boy's toy. ;D

[Mrs Ava]

oooooooooooo, like your logic there Baggy.  ;D

[wivvles]

I don't do ironing.  It has a plug on the end, therefore it's a power tool, therefore it's a boy's toy. ;D

As long as you remember that rule when it comes to the TV, that's fine....