Customer Reviews

Gourmet Classics Flour Sacks, Set of 4

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These are light, thin, flour sack towels. The real deal. They are fantastic for the kitchen for wiping hands, etc. NOT heavy for wiping up spills. As long as you know what you are purchasing they are just as promised.

They are super soft and bonus--my kids love wearing them as capes.

I bought these towels intending to use them to cover rising bread and for drying dishes. But they are far too thin and loosely woven for either purpose. The cloth is actually a cotton gauze, not tightly woven as true flour sack cloth must be. These could be used as cheesecloth, but not for much else.

The discription looks good but when received I was disappointed that the towels were so thin, almost like cheese cloth. I use flour sack towels as dish towels and for baking certain items (ex. rolling up pumpkin roll cakes) I can't use these in my baking but they work ok to clean windows.

If you buy these for drying dishes, you'll be disappointed, but my reasons were different. Put them to work as reusable cheesecloth and they're perfect. The jumbo white towels are huge, and I was able to cut one of the towels down into four, one square perfect for lining a medium sized strainer. They're also really good for breadmaking. Really any application you need a light loose weave fabric.

Just a note, don't use fabric softener when washing these towels if you're using them for food prep. Fabric softener leaves a residue which you'll not want to include as part of your recipe!

Initially disappointed. This is not the flour sack material that my grandmother had and used in her kitchen, i.e., from Gold Medal. It is doubtful that this material would hold flour, nearer to cheesecloth, and not very absorbent.
I will keep an eye out for the real deal.

Was tired of how fragile (and dirty looking) cheesecloth was for kitchen applications. Really like these flour sack cloths. They are BIG and get the job done!

Forty years ago I used to buy flour sacks from a mill in Los Angeles, and these Gourmet Classics Flour Sacks resemble them only in size. They are so thin you can see through them, even after washing and drying. I haven't used them yet, so I don't know how absorbant they are, but they are nicely hemmed, snowy white and nicely packaged

Great size but just a little to thin for my project. Arrived fast and on time. If you are using these to clean it would be perfect but I wanted to embroider on them and they were too thin.

I wish I'd read the reviews! Flour sacking quality may vary, but one thing it isn't is cheesecloth. If you want flour sacking towels, Food Network makes excellent ones - a bit more expensive but the real deal.

OTOH if you use cheesecloth, these are excellent quality.

In the late 1800's to the depression era, women recycled their cotton flour sacks and make clothes for their kids or cut them into large square pieces and used them in the kitchen for dish cloths. I was looking for dish cloths that were big, absorbent and practical. Googled flour sack cloth and found them immediately on Amazon, of course. These are tough and wonderful and will no doubt be here when I am long gone.