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If you're looking to buy in bulk, the Pacific Blue Basics Recycled Hardwound is your best bet. This enormous roll is 7.5 inches in diameter and offers over 800 feet of paper. Recycled paper is an environmentally conscious way to buy, and its lack of bells and whistles makes it practical and inexpensive. You'll find it stocked in public bathrooms and classrooms.
Unfortunately, since it's only one-ply and lacks porosity, it's not very good at absorbing water or cleaning up messes. With big spills, the water eventually is soaked up, but diffusion is slow, and thus, less absorbent. Cleaning has similarly poor performance, and it's not nearly as strong as other multi-ply options. If you simply seek a roll that you can buy in bulk and do the job, this is our recommendation. 

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Accolades for our favorite napkin go to the Scott Essential Multifold. This multi-fold option is designed to wipe your face and sit under your cutlery at the dinner table. The one-ply design folds into three sections, opening up with a large surface area to easily clean your face and fingers. It'll do the trick for cleaning, but the performance isn't nearly as good as a traditional, absorbent towel. The multi-fold napkin options present an outstanding value that is on par with the highest value contenders.
As a one-ply napkin, it's not very absorbent and doesn't clean up things nearly as well as other traditional towels. During our water tests, it only absorbed 0.3 ounces of water and diffused only 2.1 inches up the strip, which is poor on the performance scale. While cleaning, it picked up some sauce but smeared more of it. While it held up its strength when dry, it fell apart after scrubbing just 15 times on a rough surface when wet. Overall, it's not very strong when wet or absorbent. While its performance features can't compete with a traditional paper towel, this is our favorite napkin for its soft feel and nice look.

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These strong and absorbent paper towels don’t leave lint behind, and they have more tear-off points for less mess.

Our favorite paper towels are absorbent and strong enough to scrub carpet with. And they have more tear-off points, so you don't have to use a full sheet every time.

For value seekers, Presto! Flex-a-Size is hard to top. One roll has a whopping 10.42 square feet and measures 5.65 inches in diameter. The roll itself looks about average, but the sheets are thinner, so it packs more into a smaller area. In our tests, it absorbed an average amount of water &#40;0.4 ounces of water weight&#41; and diffused 2.4 inches up the strips in our tests &#40;a little above average&#41;. When spilling water on the table and picking up foodstuffs while cleaning, it offers a similar performance to the highest-scoring contenders. The material is soft to the touch on both the upper and lower side of each piece, and we love the cute designs and patterns.
While we love its value, if you find yourself scrubbing on a countertop, you might notice it falling apart. In our scrubbing tests, it blew more holes through the material when both wet and dry &mdash; and sooner than other higher-end brands. Despite its shedding and fraying, it's still a great value, so long as durability isn't your biggest concern.

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Our favorite paper towel for kitchen and outdoor chores is the Bounty Quick-Size. Anytime we had a tough job that required a tough towel, this is the one we reached for. We tested it while scrubbing down our tubs, hot tubs, counters, and cast-irons, and it always required fewer sheets for the job than other contenders. It shed the least and maintains its strength, even when wet. Each roll is massive, with approximately 9,438 square inches of surface area, with a diameter of six inches, making it one of the largest rolls you can buy. It's also soft to the touch and feels good on the skin.
With high performance comes a higher price. That said, you do get more absorption and cleaning power from one square. So really, we have no complaints. If you're seeking the best performance with large rolls and fewer squares used for any mess, look no further. 

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