Cotton Tea Towels, Set of 6

Six cotton tea towels, lint-free and genuinely absorbent — the workhorse of the kitchen and the thing most households are quietly short of. Six is the right number because a tea towel is only useful dry, and one towel doing a day's work is damp by lunchtime.

Lint-free matters more than it sounds. A cheap towel leaves fibres on wine glasses and on the inside of a pan, which means drying makes more work rather than less. These are woven to dry glass clean.

Why you'll love it

• Six in a pack — enough to always have a dry one.
• Lint-free — dries glassware without leaving fibres.
• Genuinely absorbent cotton — takes water rather than pushing it around.
• Washes hot — cotton survives the temperature that actually cleans.

Details

• Material: cotton
• Size: 28 x 40cm · pack of 6
• Ideal for: drying dishes and glassware, general kitchen use

Skip the fabric softener. It coats the fibres and is the single fastest way to turn an absorbent towel into one that smears water around.