Tired Of Your Kitchen Towels Sliding Off The Oven? Try This Easy Fix

The oven door handle is the perfect spot for kitchen and dish towels. You're reaching for them at all different points throughout the meal preparation — serving, and clean-up processes — and that handle keeps them in the midst of the action while also adding aesthetic value to your kitchen. There's just one problem: The towels have a hard time actually staying on the handle. Unless you're perfectly re-folding them every time you use them, they never seem to hang evenly, making them ready to slip right off the second you brush past them or open the oven door. 

The good news is that there's an equally simple and chic solution — all you have to do is tie your towels onto the oven door handle. In the caption of a post demonstrating how, TikTok user @makayla_thomas_fit enthusiastically wrote, "The day I started tying my towels like this was the day my life changed forever." Just take your towel folded in half and drape it over the handle, holding onto the ends and letting the folded center hang behind the handle. Pull that fold toward you and slip the ends through it, like tying a loosely looped knot. 

Hung this way, the kitchen towels will look like scarves knotted onto the oven door handle, creating an interesting visual appeal. More importantly, they'll never slip off the handle and on to the floor ever again — and, they're still easy to grab off the handle by pulling the loop in one motion.

According to another TikTok user, @jordansreed, you'll get the same result by folding your kitchen towel over the oven door handle like you normally would — but then taking the back half and wrapping it around the front, like tying a knot where you only pull one end. This might be easier if your towels aren't that long, and you still end up with a stylishly knotted towel that won't budge until you want it to but still is quick to grab.

People are clearly enjoying the effects of this method. In the comments under the video from @makayla_thomas_fit, people have called the hack a game-changer. "Just got out of bed in the middle of the night to do this and I have no regrets," wrote one. Many also point out that this keeps towels secure even with kids and dogs pulling at them. One crucial step to take if you do have children, though, is to use an oven lock; otherwise, the towels can open the oven door when pulled.

To complete your kitchen towel storage upgrade, make sure you also have an accessible, tidy set-up for the towels not hanging on the oven door. Rolling kitchen towels is an effective hack for fitting your whole collection neatly into one drawer or cabinet. It's especially helpful if you can allocate one near the oven for easy swaps, especially considering we should all be changing out our hanging kitchen towels more.