How do you store your kitchen towels?

I have a drawer in the kitchen that is full of kitchen towels and dish cloths.

I rarely use any of them.

I hate using a dish cloth .... I just use my hand to wash dishes.

Dear hubby has his favorite towel that he keeps on the arm of his chair that he uses like a big napkin.  That is the towel that I use to dry my hands after washing dishes.  The dishes drip dry in a dish drain rack.

How do you store your kitchen towels?

Kitchen towels end up folded and on a shelf of our coffee stand to be pulled from for hand drying duties.


My wife crochets dish scrubs and they are all I use now. We keep about five on hand at a time before wearing them through. They last a long time. The only things I do not use them on are cast iron which has its own scrub brush. I just found the scrubs get super filthy if used on the cast iron regularly.

We have a dedicated drawer for kitchen towels. We also have a linen closet. One of my many quirks is that I can be in the kitchen …inches away from the rower drawer… and I will leave 5he kitchen to go to the linen  closet to get a kitchen towel.

I use the same, a drawer in the kitchen with pot holders, towels (for everything but drying dishes) and dish rags.  Dishes dry in the rack.  I'm a bit of a slob when working in the kitchen and end up using several towels and dish rags each week.  It would seem I get a little carried away while cooking and using a spoon, I can now make this vow, I will never again have a black glass cook top stove!!!

The only problem with my storage drawer, I end up using the same top two or three items all the time!


Peace

I have one drawer in the kitchen for towels, cloth napkins (bandanas) and knit dish scrubbies (like Timothy mentions, which I use instead of sponges). It's also where a few tools, matches, razor blades, candles, cheesecloth, light bulbs and other assorted bits and bobs live.
The rule in the house in this smallish drawer is ROTATION. Newly washed stuff goes at the bottom or back of the stack. Otherwise I use the same 3 things over and over again, as Deane mentions, and within a month they're in the scrap pile.

Edited to add: I am AGOG at the size of the towels that lady is folding in the second video. Her washcloths are the size of kitchen towels, and her towels could be bath towels. If those were in my kitchen I'd have to buy another cabinet.

Clean ones in a drawer in the kitchen. Those in use hanging on oven door or on a drawer handle— but not within 12 inches of floor because then you have a mouse ladder.

In a drawer next to the sink, but if I haven't used one in, say, 6 months I either relegate it to rags or put it away in the attic to replace ones that wear out.  Just figure out the minimum you really need at hand and put the rest away.

One dishcloth, usually a souvenir from a trip, hangs from a magnet on the front of the refrigerator for hand-drying, emergency cleaning, etc.  Extras are stacked in a wire hanging basket between the stove and refrigerator.

Paper towels hang on the other side of the stove for disgusting cleanup.

Microfiber washcloths are stacked on a shelf above the sink, used for intermediate cleanup and going dampened under the cutting board.  (And for reasons known only to the bf, one hangs on the faucet.) I depend on my dishwasher for dishes, but have another hanging basket above the sink for scrubbies, scrapers, etc, for handwashing.

The advantage of a small apartment is that the bedroom hamper is steps away so everything washable can be thrown there immediately.

We just moved to a new apartment.  Here all of the hand towels and washrags live in a little drawer in the bathroom, regardless of whether they're bound for the bathroom or kitchen, because we use them interchangibly.  In the bathroom they hang on a towel hanger next to the sink when in use.  In the kitchen they hang on a towel hanger above the sink when in use.