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Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2023
Handy, but not very exorbitant. Just push liquid around
Medianvalued
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015
These are OK as far as they go but they are pretty darn expensive. I got some reusable disposable cloths derived from bamboo that are very tough and much cheaper than these. Sometimes you don't get what you pay for.
Amy Goebel Padgett
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015
If you run a small business, or live on a small farm like we do, you really ought to consider a box of these cloths. We go through a ton of paper towels each week, mostly cleaning up after animals, and regardless of claims in commercials, you really can't rinse out traditional paper towels and get much use out of them afterwards--they just rip up. These cloths are much "heftier" and you really can use them, rinse them out, and keep using them to clean without them simply shredding in your hand. And when you're done, you can just throw them away, making them much more sanitary than linen towels you have to wash. There are some messes you have to clean up where you just want to throw out the cleaning material afterwards, and these are perfect for that.I know they are made for the restaurant/small business environment, but they are so useful that I can see a lot of other uses for them, as I mentioned. In fact, I think small farms, or anyone who has animals (or stables), or deals regularly with messes, will find these a lot more useful than endless rolls of flimsy paper towels. We love them--and I highly recommend them for camping trips too (we recently took some with us and wow, were they useful).
Jeff Wignall
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015
I really like these towels a great deal and as expensive as they are, I seriously think I would choose them over paper towels in the future. I have always hated paper towels because I feel that we're all wasting trees just to wipe off countertops--and even the best brands just fall apart in a few minutes. Many paper towel brands are now using recycled materials, but we're still tossing out millions of paper towels a day. You start to cook a big meal and you can go through a dozen in no time. Cloth towels are nice, but they get filthy (and smelly) fast and it's just more laundry to do. It may seem like a minor issue to people that don't cook a lot, but I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.So, when these towels arrived, I took one out to test it and decided to see how long I could abuse it before it just fell apart. I first dampened it, wrung it out then wiped down the kitchen counters and it did a good job and not a sign of a tear. So I wiped down the stove (I'm not the neatest cook in the world either, lol), still fine. I then rinsed it quickly and walked around the house and wiped down my office tables, the tops of my computers, several hard drives, cleaned my office phone and then the keyboard. Still, no tears. So, for fun I yanked it hard (it was still pretty wet) expecting that I'd sacrificed it for sure. No tears, nothing. That one towel has been hanging around my home office ever since and it's still using it. Not sure how they'll work cleaning furniture with spray wax yet, but that's next.These towels are obviously designed for and marketed to the food-service industry but I think that Georgia-Pacific would have a lot of success marketing this for home use (particularly if they lower the price a bit or package smaller quantities for home use). You can use one paper towel all afternoon in a kitchen instead of going through half a roll of paper towels. Yes, expensive, no doubt, but there are 150 of these in a box. If you use one a day and toss it out (and you probably won't--I've hung them up to dry and they are fine on the second use) then one box will last you five months. Even if you use two, you're still going to go nearly three months before restocking (compare that to adding paper towels to your shopping list every week). I'll gladly pay more if I can buy one box that will last me nearly half a year instead of buying those big clunky dozen-roll packages of paper towels that I can never find a place to store. I'm sold.
Victor Blake
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015
A few notes worth reading here about these disposable cloths. First, they are only compostable in industrial compost facilities NOT backyard composting. (Although they could be burned if you don't use them to wipe up anything toxic such as latex paint). This raises a concern I have. They are quite heavy duty (heavier than the diposable rags in a box you find in a big box home improvement store), BUT they absolutely have oil residue on them which YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE ON YOUR HANDS ON YOUR WALL OR ON YOUR BRUSH OR TOOLS if you are painting with laytex or oil based paints. If you get a natural oil like this any your brush or hands and touch the surface before you paint, you will definitely have a problem. So I CANNOT recommend these for anything related to painting. Likewise those natural oils from the flax hull make these rags a really poor choice for cleaning glass windows (another major use I have for disposable rags).With those items out of the way, these are great for pickup up water or similar spills. I also gladly used them when pouring out mineral spirits from a gallon container to more manageable quarts. For this these rags were great, then just leave them out to dry and re-use! The perfect use really. When done it is then reasonable safe to burn them. After a few uses I'll use them to start fires in a wood burning stove.Another great use is in the barn/garage for wiping down / cleaning off equipment and tools. They are very heavy duty and here a bit of oil is nice to have on steel tools sitting in the barn or garage as the oil coating will help protect against rust. Similarly great for garden tools!
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