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These blue shop towels, officially called Scott Shop Towels on a Roll (Costco Item #872063) are a must have for your workshop or garage. They come in a 10 pack, with 55 towels per roll.

They have very little lint and work well for cleaning windows. You can use one of these blue paper towels to clean multiple windows, while if you use normal kitchen paper towels you will end up using a half dozen towels per window.

When you are finished with the job, just dispose of these in the trash. (For safety reasons, if you absorb flammable solvents with these paper towels, you should let them dry out (outside) before disposing of them. Otherwise, you can get spontaneous combustion, where heat is released as the solvent oxidizes and the heat can start the rags on fire.)

These paper towels are such an improvement over the standard kitchen paper towels that I have often suspected a conspiracy of sorts is keeping this technology out of the kitchen. These only seem to be sold in an industrial blue color that most people would not want to display in their kitchen.

This is how Kimberly Clark, the head of the conspiracy, describes the towel's potential kitchen uses:

While our products are not toxic and excellent at cleaning up spills and messes, they are not intended for use with food, and have not been tested for direct contact with food products. We do not recommend use in that way.

What they are trying to say is that this product is intended to compete with workshop rags, not their own Scott brand paper towels.