Swedish Dishcloths for Kitchen Grey 10 Pack Reusable Compostable Kitchen Cloth Made in Sweden Cellulose Sponge Swedish Dish Cloths for Washing Dishes Reusable Paper Towels Washable

These absorb fluids very well. They are very strong and I use one as a dishcloth. They dry quickly so they dont stay wet like regular dishcloths and develop an odor. They wash up great and air dry quickly too. They are better than paper towels

Love the steel grey color---great with stainless sink!

I was kind of skeptical about them when I took them out of the package and realized how stiff they were, but holy crap, these things are awesome. I dropped a pint of half and half today, spilling it everywhere, and was able to clean up the entire mess with ONE dishcloth. It would have taken at least 10 paper towels, but I got almost the entire spill in one pass when soaking up the liquid, and then rinsed it to wash everything off. I sniffed it when I was done to see if it smelled like half and half and it smells like absolutely nothing at all. All you have to do is squeeze it out and lay it flat and it drys crazy fast. I’ve been throwing mine in the dishwasher whenever I use it, and it cleans it right up. Only issue is once it comes out of the dishwasher it takes a long time to dry since it’s so soaked, but with normal spills and rinsing it dries back out crazy fast. Since it’s stiff, you do have to use it a little differently than a paper towel to get it started. I always just lay it in the worst of the spill and press it down till it soaks up enough liquid to get more flexible, but it’s just insane to me how much liquid this thing can hold. I also like to use it to “scrub” things that require gentle scrubbing, like the glass stove top. I highly recommend them for saving money on paper towels and just for how cool it is to watch them absorb like black magic levels of liquid.

They are so much better than a sponge. Throw in washer and clean smelling again.

What can I say it lasted through an accidental misuse while cleaning a cheese grader. Doesnt disintegrate even when holes have formed. Washes easy. Certainly will buy again.

First, this is called a dishcloth. It is similar to a dishcloth in absolutely no way. A dishcloth is flexible; this is either stiff like cardboard when dry or soggy and floppy. A dishcloth is large; this is a little rectangle, about half the size of a sheet of letter paper. A dishcloth is absorbent; this can absorb some water-based liquids and then will spread the rest around; it is a weak performer at absorbing oil-based and other spills. A dishcloth lasts for years; this supposedly lasts through multiple washings but not for decades like my good dishcloths. A really great cloth for cleaning up messes, if you want to be kinder to the planet than the paper towel hog, is called a rag. When I grew up, we used old clothes, towels and linens that could no longer be mended. These were laundered separately and reused. We didnt import sponges from Europe and call them cloth. Second, this does not replace rags or paper towels for spills. Imagine the cat tips over a fishy bowl of food. You reach for one of these hard little rectangles. It was not evident to me until after purchase that these cannot be used as is, like a dishcloth would be. You have to go to the sink and wet it, then wring it out, while the spill is dribbling from the counter to the floor, then the best you can achieve is to push the mess around a bit. The rectangle isnt big enough to scoop up anything and isnt absorbent enough to clear away the mess. Dont get me wrong, I am big on saving paper. I use dishcloths (REAL ones) for absorbing clean water, like drying dishes. I have a separate one for drying hands while cooking. I have a two-stage sponge plan for messes, one to get the majority of the mess and the second to clean up after the first. I do have paper towels and use those multiple times. If they are merely wet, say from cleaning a mirror, I let them dry and use them again for progressively dirty jobs, until they are thrown away. If something is spreading across the counter and dribbling and needs to be picked up quickly, good luck using one of these Swedish dishcloths. This brings me to a gripe about squandering the equity in the reputation of Sweden and, in particular, Swedish dishcloths. I happen to have studied Swedish looms and weaving. Swedish housewives were known to produce heirloom quality woven household items for their trousseau. To me the words Swedish in the name of the product and dishcloth are akin to Swiss watch. The best. So, these are not dishcloths and surely not Swedish dishcloths. The instructions say to wash these in the dishwasher or washing machine. Can you imagine that a dishwasher will really clean a stinky mess out of a sponge (which is what these really are, next point)? More likely, it will absorb oily and smelly substances from the dishes and spread them around the next time you use one of these to try to clean up. About sponges, that is what this is, exactly. You can get these in the grocery store for a tiny fraction of the rip-off cost of these. They are also made of wood pulp but do not have the pretentious and oh-so-precious claims of the pure Swedish woods aka tree farms. I was stupid, really stupid. I saw CNN touting these for a couple of months and finally decided to investigate them. They made it sound like anyone stupid enough to buy paper towels was destroying the environment instead of being really enlightened and, um, Scandinavian ... blue eyes, blonde hair, pure Aryans, definitely no Asians, whom we have characterized racially as enemies and whom bigots suggest when they boast that something is made in America. With such an unbelievably high price, I assumed they must be worth it, so I took the bait, not realizing Id be getting something identical to the flat sponges I got from the grocery store and rarely use. I really hate the misleading hype, so am suspicious about everything written on the package. A card with a font made to look like handwriting thanked me for supporting a small family business. Am I supposed to picture these blonde, blue-eyed, pure-at-heart Swedes making dishcloths in the family room by the fireside? Okay, a factory that is family owned. A lot of big businesses are small family owned. Small is the adjective modifying family, not business. Nothing like the small family businesses youd find on Etsy, for example, the unemployed husband in the basement crafting clothes hooks out of tree branches, the wife upstairs handling business accounts and correspondence from the kitchen table, the home-schooled children handling the packing and shipping. I happen to have wonderful dishcloths that I love using, some great sponges, rags like old T-shirts, and, yes, paper towels that I ration out only when absolutely prudent. What I dont have is this package of outrageously overpriced little cardboard sponges. Returned.

I like these because they work well and dont show the stains like a lighter one.

This product went far beyond my expectations!! They work great. Its also biodegradable. Ive only had them for about a week. Im glad I tried them. More to come after Ive had them for a while.

This might seem like a bit of an investment in the beginning. But it will save you a lot of money in the long run. Especially if you use a lot of paper towels. I bought a small amount of these “sponge towels several years ago and I know I saved at least a hundred dollars, maybe more, on paper towels! But that is not the thing that is most important to me. What is important to me, is that I am saving trees. These towels are better than any paper towel could ever be. I use them for everything. Washing windows, cleaning appliances, wiping up spills, dusting, washing dishes, washing car, cleaning in general! Then I throw them into the washer and they are fine. I would recommend letting them air dry, rather than put them in the dryer. But occasionally I do put them in the dryer. I just feel like it takes a little away from their longevity. But they will still last a really long time. I honestly feel that once you start using these towels, you will not stop. I pride myself on being as honest as possible, and telling it like it with my reviews! If I don’t like something, I do not hold back, you will know in the first ten seconds! And if I love something, which I do these towels, I tend to gush! My apologies for gushing, right now, but if for no other reason, try them out, in an effort to help our environment! I am pretty sure you won’t be sorry!❤️

They were just what I expected! I love them!