Towel size vs retained moisture
After showering, I dry myself with a towel. In fact I've got several towels, of different sizes and colours.
I don't wash my towels after every use, and I've noticed that unless I hang them in a spot that is highly conducive to towel drying (such spots are, sadly, frequently rather awkward in all other respects) they tend to get wetter with repeated use, even taking into account the regular 24-hour-or-so drying period.
Anyway, recently I ran out of bath towels and so I started using a beach towel. This towel is about twice the size of my normal towels, but it has managed to stay drier for far longer than I'd expected. It's definitely outlasted the bath towels.
So: is the dryness size-related? I guess moisture spreads pretty-much evenly to all parts of the towel. In that case, any given spot on a larger towel would be drier than a similar-sized spot on a small towel. So the towel will feel drier quite soon after a shower. But since this towel has stayed dry over multiple showers, there must be more to it than that. I thought perhaps there was some sort of nonlinear relationship between moisture level and drying time, but, since there is simply more surface area in a larger towel, that probably isn't necessary: Larger towels dry quicker just because there's more towel exposed to the air. Makes sense. Hadn't thought about it previously.
I wonder if there's a break-even point?
I don't wash my towels after every use, and I've noticed that unless I hang them in a spot that is highly conducive to towel drying (such spots are, sadly, frequently rather awkward in all other respects) they tend to get wetter with repeated use, even taking into account the regular 24-hour-or-so drying period.
Anyway, recently I ran out of bath towels and so I started using a beach towel. This towel is about twice the size of my normal towels, but it has managed to stay drier for far longer than I'd expected. It's definitely outlasted the bath towels.
So: is the dryness size-related? I guess moisture spreads pretty-much evenly to all parts of the towel. In that case, any given spot on a larger towel would be drier than a similar-sized spot on a small towel. So the towel will feel drier quite soon after a shower. But since this towel has stayed dry over multiple showers, there must be more to it than that. I thought perhaps there was some sort of nonlinear relationship between moisture level and drying time, but, since there is simply more surface area in a larger towel, that probably isn't necessary: Larger towels dry quicker just because there's more towel exposed to the air. Makes sense. Hadn't thought about it previously.
I wonder if there's a break-even point?