how do you get that nasty smell of cooking oil out of towels?

Question

I spilt cooking oil on my kitchen floor and wiped it up with a towel, put that towel in the wash with the rest. Now my towels stink so bad...PLEASE HELP!!!

Answer 1

Use a cup or 2 of vinegar in the wash.
Cheap plain white vinegar . . .

Answer 2

Wash the towels in very hot water. Use 50% more detergent than usual, and add 2 cups of ammonia to the wash water. Ammonia is an excellent grease cutter, and it won't leave its odor on the towles (thought it does smell pretty bad right from the bottle.

Answer 3

I bleach all my towels, and never had a problem with odor or stains. Of course, if you can't bleach it, I agree with the vinegar methods.

And I agree with you...that smell IS disgusting!

Answer 4

There is something wrong, not with your towels, but with your nose. Or maybe it is psychosomatic and you feel, in your heart of hearts, that cooking oil is too bad a smell to be obliterated by ordinary laundary methods. I assure you this is not so. Just wash them in a 60 degree wash and all will be fine. Any odour that survives that should be reported to NASA and we all await the invasion.

Answer 5

try some baking soda in the wash and viniger in the rinse cycle.

Answer 6

a little baking soda with your detergent, or white vinegar...or you could use a half cup of bleach with some baking soda... all of it works great.

Answer 7

There is actually one one way left: move to France.

Answer 8

Use the white vinigar - 1 cycle and the odor is almost gone. (Thanks, Kate!!)

Answer 9

This is an easy one to answer.

Answer 10

Fire.