Keep it clean

7/25/13
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEPHEN B. THORNTON
Bounty Duratowels for Keep it Clean column
7/25/13 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEPHEN B. THORNTON Bounty Duratowels for Keep it Clean column

Bounty DuraTowel

Dish towel or paper towel?

It’s a battle in the kitchen, in a way. Do you choose the paper towel and disregard all the worries about the environment, expanding landfills and shrinking forests? Or do you choose the dish towel, which is going to have to be washed and use up water? Dish towels are more durable, but what about germs?

The Bounty paper towel folks are using that last question as ammo in the latest round in the battle against the dish towel.

The premise? Dish cloths are dirty and house millions of microscopic bugaboos that can do all kinds of damage to your food and family - or can just gross you out when you think about it.

After all, you don’t just use a cloth and throw it away. Chances are, you use it quite a few times, drying hands, drying dishes, wiping the countertop.

Paper towels, which you use and toss, are more sanitary, but they don’t hold up as well.

Enter the Bounty DuraTowel.

They’re designed to be cloth-like and durable and hold together well when wet. They do feel a bit more substantial than the standard paper towel.

Also, Bounty claims that the paper towels leave surfaces three times cleaner than that dishcloth crumpled on the counter. No way to test that, really, without fancy equipment. You’d just have to take their word for it. But the paper towels hold up nicely and have pretty patterns.

Visit bountytowels.com.

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