h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That moderation removal makes the mind boggle far more than had it been left there

I suspect the post was written that way

Well I did wonder about that...

I'm a towel slinger too.

It serves two purposes.

1. I wash up as I go along. I have a small kitchen at the moment and working in a mess drives me bonkers.

2. It's handy to use when picking up hot pots.

Leaving it on the shoulder makes life a little easier (like reversing into parking spaces - it's about thinking ahead and being prepared).

PP

I also use one, for essentially all of the reasons previously cited. I can remember my father(a retired ) sporting a towel over the shoulder when he cooked at home & often when I stopped at his places of employment...as far back as the '60s

Don´t most chefs have one hanging from their belts?

Just this second watching St Rick Stein and all the chefs have tea/towels in the belts.

But when you wipe something on your towel, you get it moist... and then when you use it to pick up something hot, you burn your hands... and the icky moistness will also slowly seep through your shirt...

Pot-holders & oven mitts! And the kitchenunderlings, as it were.

It´s not for wiping wet surfaces. It´s for when you get a bit of sauce on your finger.

(I should leave this to a professional typist...)

just nuked some soup for the wife and ankle-biter and used a tea towel to carry the bowl to the work top, as soon as i had put the bowl down i flicked the tea towel over my shoulder and dished up the soup, i then paused as i realized what i had done vis a vi the tea towel,

why do men do it.........we just do, its like looking at tits!!!!!!

... preferably those not covered by a tea towel?

don't you have a t-shirt?

Mine got wet...

Luckily I was wearing a thermal vest underneath

At least we got three dots in without it getting smutty...

Draping a tea towel over your shoulder is like looking at ?

How so? Do both acts give rise to a similar psychological response in you?

I'm starting to get baffled by the discussion, I must admit.

The more interesting question is do they give the same physical response?

Well, if so you could carry a hand towel too.

PP