One Reason You Should Wash Your Kitchen Linens Separately — Cleaning Tips from The Kitchn

Kitchen linens get a special kind of dirty, because most people don't just use them for drying dishes — they also use them to wipe up crumbs off the countertop, dry their hands, swab spills off the floor, and dab jelly off their kids' faces. Often, all in one day, several times a day. And some of us (okay, me!) don't wash our kitchen linens nearly as often as we should.

But let's just say, for the sake of argument, you take your linens out of rotation for a good old-fashioned washing as often as you're supposed to (which should be every other day!): Do you wash them with the rest of the laundry, or on their own? They're definitely extra gross, but washers these days should be able to handle it, right?

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