Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Keeping dishcloths fresh

Welcome to our second edition of Kitchen Tip Tuesdays! Thank you to everyone who participated last week! I loved reading everyone's handy tips. :)

My tip this week is about how I keep my dishcloths fresh. I'm sure it isn't anything novel, but I love knowing that my dish rags are all fresh and clean!

During the course of a day, we usually get out 1-3 (or more, depending on what we're doing) dishcloths. Wiping childrens' faces, cleaning up messes, cooking, and washing dishes... our dish rags are well-used! :)

At night time, before I go to bed, I rinse out all the dish rags with hot water. I wring them out and hang them on the sink, or stove (or even clothesline, if it's nice outside) to dry.

In the morning, I put all of the dry, dirty dish rags in with the dirty laundry. Then throughout the day, I get out fresh ones as needed. I never have to guess how long a dishcloth has been out, because it's never longer than a day, and never long enough to start smelling icky! :)

Before I did this, my dishcloths would end up smelling awful, and I would resort to using bleach every time I washed whites. Now, I very rarely use bleach, and they still smell great! :)

To participate in Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Post a kitchen tip in your blog, with a link to this post. Then come here and add your name, tip subject, and URL to this post! Links must be family friendly, as always. If you don't have a blog but would still like to share a tip, just leave a comment here with your tip! Thanks for participating! :)

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays Participants

1. Stuck In North Idaho
2. Lavonne (softening butter, and easier cleaning)
3. Ginny
4. Mary Ann(keep track of ingredients)
5. Just in case(cooking with my kids)
6. Mrs. Brigham (Washing a Badly Burned Pot)
7. Vicky

8. Mrs. S.
9. Linda
10. Erika, Pioneer Homemaker
11. Bethanie (cleaning microwave)
12. Alexandra(Eliminating Plastic Wrap)
13. MrsB
14. AmyG (Herbs in the window)

15. Crystal @ Biblical Womanhood (simple nacho dip)
16. Mrs. Pear (Breakfast on Demand)
17. Michelle (freezing bananas)
18. Rachel (happier with simplicity)
19. Michigan Momma

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Ginny

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-05-29 03:59.

Tammy, I do almost the same thing. I use a dishrag one day and let it dry and then put it in the dirty laundry. I have a lot of dishrags. I got the idea from you to use old socks and they are working great! Thanks!

Baking Soda for Grease Fires

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-05-29 14:13.

If you don't already have a fire extiguisher in the kitchen, keep baking soda by the stove for quick access in the case of a grease fire. The soda quenches the flames.

Better tip, carefully watch the oil in the frying pan so it doesn't become too hot! :)

-Mrs. Marks

How simple

Submitted by shorty on Tue, 2007-05-29 15:36.

why haven't I thought of that years ago!! I started doing it last night:) One of my younger sons always puts the "yucky" dishrag in our rag hamper and gets a new one. I can now retrain him to get the ones haning on the stove and put those in the laundry and put a new one up...what a great idea. Such simple things!
Shorty

Tammy, I have been doing

Submitted by Bethany on Tue, 2007-05-29 17:50.

Tammy, I have been doing this for a few years now! I used to use sponges and all they do is start to smell icky after a while...I finally decided to buy washcloths and I just cycle through about 2 dozen of them every week! :) The washer and dryer are in my kitchen, so all I have to do is throw the old ones in the hamper from at the sink, and I can pull a new one out of the drawer! Nice smelling, no moldy smell. It's nice!

Lovin' the Tips

Submitted by MommaJoy on Wed, 2007-05-30 12:19.

I left my URL but I just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying these tips. Some of them I already do, some I have heard of before and just forgot and others are new (and great!!). Thanks for this!

*Michigan Momma*
wife to The Pastor & momma of:
~Isaac ~Selah ~Talitha ~Elijah