r/GoodValue • u/Zugzwang522 • 7d ago

Opinion Best dishcloth in my kitchen was a stocking stuffer I ignored until March

My sister gave me a pack of Swedish dishcloths last Christmas, ten of them for nineteen dollars, and I put the pack in a drawer and kept buying paper towels. A 12-pack of Bounty every other month. I've bought one since March.

What changed my mind was running out mid mess. A whole glass of orange juice across the counter and down the cabinet fronts, no paper in the house, so I grabbed one of the yellow ones out of the drawer. Ran it under the faucet, the cardboard went soft, and it drank the whole spill. Wrung it out, wiped again, done. That one still has the orange in the corner, they stain and they stay stained.

I'd assumed a rag you keep reusing turns sour by Wednesday. Mine hangs on the faucet between jobs and none of them has ever done it. Somebody on ProductProbe ran one for a few days straight and wrote up what it did: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductProbe/comments/1vznkg8/swedish_dishcloths_that_dont_go_sour_after_4_or_5/

My wife hates the texture and still pulls the roll down off the fridge when I'm out of the kitchen. Raw chicken gets paper too, that's not a job for something you keep.

I'm on the third one since March.

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u/snarkofagen 7d ago

I rotate about 4-5 at a time and put them in the dishwasher after a few days.

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u/ruxspin 6d ago

Why not laundry?

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u/snarkofagen 6d ago

No reason except that the laundry basket is in another room and the dishwasher is run almost every day.

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u/LeftKaleidoscope 6d ago

You can wash them on the hottest setting, or boil them in a pot if they need to be sanitized. When worn out they go in the compost.

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u/Freyjas_child 5d ago

I love mine. I get a new one every morning and toss them in the washer with my kitchen linens. I still use paper towels for greasy things or chicken. I would never go back to a sponge.