
First of all, I've never owned real kitchen towels, so I don't have a better comparison tool. They are great for drying dishes though (that's what I bought them for). One towel is enough to dry almost two full sinks, although I try not to have that many. If the dishes are particularly wet or I have more than usual, I can use two towels in a day and still have enough towels for a week or more. Pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I also use these towels to dry my hands after washing and I have to say these kitchen towels do a better job than my hand towels. I would definitely recommend them to cheap department store (or dollar store) towels. I can't compare them to more expensive items as I never had them and now I don't need them. In another review I read a complaint that they were too thin. They're flimsy but work as they're supposed to. I don't see why they need to be thicker when they work the way they do. Just look at the photos in the description. You can clearly see how thick/thin they are. They fill up easily with water when you try to use them to clean up puddles, or your dishes still have water droplets after being pulled straight out of the rinse aid. What I do after washing/rinsing dishes is putting them on a basket to allow excess water to drain first and then placing a towel on top when the basket is full or when all the plates are washed. I would not. I don't recommend using them to clean up spills or messes, but that's mainly because they're meant to stay white and not get soiled with random messes (I don't have bleach to bleach them again yet). Highly recommend as a plate or hand towel and would even buy them again if I needed them too, but I have plenty of these that last, which makes them even better value for money!

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