Can I use Tea Towels to grab hot dishes?Updated 5 days ago

Koh Tea Towels are fine for warm crockery and everyday kitchen tasks, and folding one to several layers gives short-term protection for items that are not extremely hot. They are not heatproof. Microfibre is a synthetic fibre that can soften, deform or melt at high temperatures, so use oven mitts, heat-resistant gloves or a trivet for hot oven trays, pots and pans, and never use them on or near open flames.

If the towel picks up grease or food residue after contact with hot items, spray it with Koh Kitchen Grease and Oil Cleaner, work it in gently, then launder it promptly at a maximum of 40 degrees and line dry. If a towel is scorched, discoloured or sticky from heat damage, stop using it for kitchen tasks and replace it, because damaged microfibre will not perform properly.

No. The waffle and diamond weaves are the same 410 GSM microfibre and the same 60 by 40 cm size, so neither is more heat resistant than the other. The difference between them is surface texture, which affects drying and polishing, not heat tolerance. Use an oven mitt for hot items regardless of which towel you have to hand.

Tea Towels 2pk

Two weaves in one pack: waffle for drying, diamond for polishing. 410 GSM microfibre that absorbs up to 7 times its weight and dries 4 times faster than cotton, with no paper-towel lint.

Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner

For the grease and baked-on residue that ends up on a tea towel after a hot pan. Cuts through it before the wash.