Best Paper Towels – Consumer Reports

Whether you’re cleaning up spills or messes, you want a paper towel that is strong and absorbent. But with so many options lining grocery store shelves, which ones actually deliver the best clean-up power for the price?

To answer that question, we evaluated six of the most popular paper towels in our lab. Some of the qualities we considered were how much water they absorb, whether they were reusable, and how well they could pick up simulated vomit—thick, chunky oatmeal. (Prices below are based on those at publication time.)