Tesco Value range does good again (Tesco Value White Kitchen Towel)

Member Name: worst_trip

Product:	Tesco Value White Kitchen Towel
Date:	28/07/09 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful kitchen roll that works all right

Disadvantages: Nothing important, really

Tesco value kitchen towel is all right for its intended purpose; it's a budget brand paper towel for mopping up spills and cleaning in the kitchen, and at just over a quid for two rolls the price is most definitely right.

The paper on the rolls isn't particularly softly squashy or quilted, unlike some of the 'de luxe' kitchen rolls that are available on the market but the again the relative thin-ness of the sheets means they (probably) biodegrade a little bit better. We put all ours once it's used in the compost caddy and it APPEARS (so far at any rate) to compost down all right in black back-garden bin. The paper isn't the brightet shade of white, admittedly, but probably that speaks of a lack of chlorine bleaching - so again better for the environment (I presume) and happily it doesn't have those stupid superfluous scrolls of flowers or Mickey Mouse prints or whatever that people seem to want to have decorating their rolls of kitchen paper these days, and for which you have to pay extra. For example, my Mum mainly uses her kitchen roll for draining excess oil off of home-made fish & chips....and I can't see that kitchen paper with additional designs printed on it would be any kind of improvement in a food preparation (or indeed, any other kitchen) context. I mean, I'm sure they assess the toxicity of the printing inks used in these decorated products as a matter of course, but does that include solubility in very hot oil - so why expose yourself to the potential additional risk - no matter how small - in the first place? So what I'm saying is you don't have to worry about any of that with Tesco Value kitchen roll, since it's all white to begin with.

Yes. Tesco Value Kitchen Towel. You can also compress the rolls down so they stow away in the cupboard quite nicely. My one complaint about the product is that it's necessary to tear the sheets off quite carefully. Something about the way the ply in the paper is arranged - or something, I don't know - means that that if you try to pull one sheet off in an off-hand manner, about the last 1.5cm of the bottom of that sheet stays attached to the previous one, and as the paper (on the roll) seems stronger in the horizontal than a vertical direction, you get a strip of kitchen roll about 1.5cm high and the width of a sheet tearing off the sheet you're trying to detatch, which hangs off on the old roll and looks a mess.

It is admittedly, the most minor of complaints, that said.

Summary: Good, no-frills value product.