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It’s the one that matches the show oven mitts. Ours is out at the moment. Festive currently but there are others. The bike tea towels live in the garage. Occasionally the bike towels get mixed with the show towels. That’s normally cue for a “noisy event”!
I also have now purchased my own bike tea towels to avoid said noisy events. It normally fails, since a tea towel is a tea towel. I advise caution in mixing the stock solutions.
Was seeing a lady a few years ago who had such a thing. Unknowingly I dried my hands on it. The relationship didn't last very long.
I do sometimes get in trouble for using the clean tea towel to get things out of the oven. But they're just so much better than oven gloves for that purpose. And they're right there on the oven door!
Don’t have one, but I want one now 😂 Will keep an eye out for something worthy
Do people with show tea towels have Mumsnet bedside cleaning beakers?
No show tea towels here, but we do have "special" Christmas ones to go with the plates, mugs, glasses, dishes, tablecloth etc...One of my "favourite" tasks is to lug boxes of the shite (sorry valuable family heirlooms) in and out of the loft each year, bah humbug!
Whoever gives a f&&k in such matters needs to seriously look at themselves and the how others of the world actually live.
But pride in petty things can be sign of needing order in their lives or an ingrained tradition passed from older generations for no apparent benefit.
Great song, but do they actually exist??? <scurries off to Amazon…>
There has to be a market for merchandise with obscure Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics, surely?!
who wee’d in your shoes?! 😂 🙄Whoever gives a f&&k in such matters needs to seriously look at themselves and the how others of the world actually live.
This thread is very funny and tongue in cheek.
However most of you are men and a lot of my female friends like to have a special item (maybe a tea towel or oven glove) in their kitchen which isn't used for oiling the chain, or degreasing the chain, or spreading mucoff.
Was anyone else brought up to never ever dry their hands on any tea towel, only the kitchen hand towel?
Show tea towels are almost as useless at drying stuff as those really fluffy ones that repel water.
The tea towels in my house are basically a more acceptable version of garage rags*. Used for pretty much anything then thrown in the washing pile.
The "posh" one is the semmingly non absorbent one that is regulated to the back of the kitchen draw.
* Old T shirts
This thread is very entertaining. 😃
However most of you are men and a lot of my female friends like to have a special item (maybe a tea towel or oven glove) in their kitchen which isn’t used for oiling the chain, or degreasing the chain, or spreading mucoff.
Ha ha – yes! I don't have a special tea towel, but I'm really very keen on drying my dishes with something clean, rather than something that's been on the floor, or used for wiping anything that doesn't come under the category of dishes. Call me perjinkety if you must. 😃
Was anyone else brought up to never ever dry their hands on any tea towel, only the kitchen hand towel?
Yes! Still feel guilty if I give my hands a quick wipe on the tea towel after drying some item – in my own kitchen!
crazy-legs
Full MemberGreat song, but do they actually exist??? <scurries off to Amazon…>
Joy Division Oven GlovesThere has to be a market for merchandise with obscure Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics, surely?!
We got ours off the back of the song but I do wonder what came first, the song or the gloves
There has to be a market for merchandise with obscure Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics, surely?!
Where would you put the gargoyle, though?
We also have joy division oven gloves
😀
Glove Will Tear Us Apart.
Definitely needed more recognition
This kind of thing gives me the willies. Like a David Lynch movie, the white picket fence that hides a seething underbelly of menacing evil.
We have 5 "amusing" tea towels mounted on wood frames, on the walls in the downstairs lav. Something to read while unloading processed coffee.
I tried to educate the wife by having a kitchen hand towel, but of course it disappeared on washing day, and not replaced. Towels are kept upstairs in the bathroom cupboard, tea towels in the kitchen drawer, so lazeness has won and hands dried on tea towels, which still annoys the inner me.
I used to work with someone who had "winter mugs" and "summer mugs"....at a certain time of year (weirdly not an equinox), she'd proudly announce "time to get the winter/summer mugs out".
Was anyone else brought up to never ever dry their hands on any tea towel, only the kitchen hand towel?
We have a kitchen hand towel, but it's never used, everyone uses the tea towel 😂 And so it just sits there all cost in top of the radiator, while the tea towel hangs on the oven door handle as they do.
Usually I'm lucky if I have 2 on the go in the kitchen, but for a while I did leave the STW tea towel I got as a "Retirement box" of other goodies from STW Towers folded up on view.
It's now in general use 🙂
If it's in the kitchen it's good enough for show.
The ones with so many holes it's impossible to dry anything without snagging get relegated to bike and tractor duties.
Polishing toasters and show tea towels. Am I missing out or am I living a better life by being confused by both concepts?
Was anyone else brought up to never ever dry their hands on any tea towel, only the kitchen hand towel?
Yes, and the guilt lives with me still when I use the tea towel for hands...
I think this thread deserves:
https://www.radicalteatowel.com//blockquote >
We have one of those on our oven handle right now 🙂
I followed the link to the Joy Division oven gloves noticed a three monthly subscription option. Show tea towels is madness but a oven glove subscription is totally off the scale.
The **** am I reading?
@bunnyhop and I have not met, but she’s channeling Mrs TiRed. Anyway, here’s ours and we have the special Christmas crockery and cups to match. Unironed of course.
Why are people hanging tea towels on radiators and oven doors?
Do you not have a cat's arsehole hanger?
This is one of the most random threads eva on STW but @crazylegs gets a special prize for introducing me to the concept of a subscription to oven gloves in memory of Joy Division. Peak STW indeed!
Merry Xmas from a drunk Vlad...
Stopped hanging up any form of teatowel in our kitchen when I spotted one of my dogs licking it
Stopped hanging up any form of teatowel in our kitchen when I spotted one of my dogs licking it
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Well we just been looking at getting a new kitchen, and towel rails for non-show tea towels don't seem to be much of a thing. So that oven door handle space would be at a premium.
Don't let them fob you off. Just tell them "no show tea towel rail, no deal".
Anyone who has time to iron their 'show tea towel' definitely needs a life.
Reckon you'll need a guest judge for Christmas "Thread of the week"!
Anyone who has time to iron
their ‘show tea towel’definitely needs a life.
didnt realise it was a thing, but.... its singletrack, of course it is....
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Great song, but do they actually exist??? <scurries off to Amazon…>
Yes, they do. Proper black ones with the quasar graphic on n’all. Keep meaning to take them to a gig and wave them around when the lads play the song.
They never get used for taking stuff out of the oven, I’ve got tea towels for that.
I do have a show tea towel, a rather nice one I bought at a Paper Aeroplanes gig, intending to hang it on the wall as a poster, just not got around to it yet.
There has to be a market for merchandise with obscure Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics, surely?!
Christ, it would need an Amazon distribution centre all of its own!
FWIW, my tea towel hangs over the oven door handle for oveney things, I have a hand towel hanging on the side of the oven with a suction hook thing, and I don’t dry my washed up things with the tea towel, they’re on the draining board so I don’t have to.