DeeGee
Active member
Try the Roman way..
In some how-to cruising tome, of great weight... we read the advice 'do not have towels, they are difficult to keep washed and dry, there is nowhere to put them whilst they are damp, they get mouldy in hot climes - use tea-towels'.
Well, the Ancient Romans didn't have towels or tea-towels, they used a STRIGIL, which is basically a scraper - to scrape off the water from their bodies.
We have married the advice to the Roman way, and now we use a plastic scraper (which is a non-serrated edged spreader for some glue or filler) to take off the excess, then dry with a tea-towel. We use those glass-cloth Irish Linen types.
Try it before you pan it - it really works, the tea-towel dries easily and is quite enough as the strigil dries almost all the body except the hair, which we wring out before drying.
<hr width=100% size=1>Black Sugar - the sweetest of all
In some how-to cruising tome, of great weight... we read the advice 'do not have towels, they are difficult to keep washed and dry, there is nowhere to put them whilst they are damp, they get mouldy in hot climes - use tea-towels'.
Well, the Ancient Romans didn't have towels or tea-towels, they used a STRIGIL, which is basically a scraper - to scrape off the water from their bodies.
We have married the advice to the Roman way, and now we use a plastic scraper (which is a non-serrated edged spreader for some glue or filler) to take off the excess, then dry with a tea-towel. We use those glass-cloth Irish Linen types.
Try it before you pan it - it really works, the tea-towel dries easily and is quite enough as the strigil dries almost all the body except the hair, which we wring out before drying.
<hr width=100% size=1>Black Sugar - the sweetest of all
