(Steve Pope) wrote:

>Jinx Minx > wrote:
>
>>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
>
>>> Not spinning it, and just blotting it with a towel
>>> also works fine, but you'll go through more towels (and
>>> hence, incur more of a carbon footprint) than is necessary.
>
>>Not if you use fabric towels instead of paper.
>
>Fabric towels require a carbon spend to launder. Last
>I checked. But indeed it is much lower than that associated
>with paper towels.

I don't think anyone runs their washing machine to launder one dish
towel... in a full load one or two more dish towels have no noticeable
effect. Most paper towels go in my composter.

I have nothing against using a salad spinner per se... but they don't
do nearly so good a job of removing water from lettuce as a towel and
they are all too small, I'd have to run many batches.... many years
ago I had a spinner, long ago got rid of it.

The damp dish towels are hung to dry and become hand towels... I keep
one dish towel separate just for drying dishes/utensils, it stays
draped over my bread box... the towel for drying hands and small
counter top water spills hangs from my oven door handle.

I've never thought about laundering a few extra dish towels till now.