Just use a kitchen washcloth instead of a sponge and get a silicon gentle scrubber in addition that you can put in the dishwasher. Less microplastics and more environmentally friendly
I get really excited about getting new socks, I think that makes me middle aged.
No joke at a company outing someone pointed out my socks were Darn Tough brand and he lifted up his pants to show his. Then my boss too, and we all talked about socks and lifetime warranties for 5 minutes and holy fuck I’m old. Or at least no longer young.
I actually wore Darn Tough socks today!
I HAVE SHOWN RESPONSIBILITY.
Warm new sponges get me so wet but not in a weird way I just fuck em
i have an irrational fear of the bacteria that live on sponge.
I was always told I was an old soul
I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell
I bought a few “Jetz Scrubz Scrubber Sponges”. They’re synthetic but suds up and work as well as real sponges. I’ve been swapping back and forth between two of them for 6 months and they still look feel and smell great. Most of my dishes get the dishwasher but non dw safe stuff or things that need scrubbed clean first get these used on them and then I throw it in the dishwasher as well. I use two so I still have one if the other is in the dishwasher.
5/5 sponge experience. Would recommend.
Oh I see
Use a[ny] foaming soap dispenser, and get suds even if your sponge/cloth doesn’t sud - I think that was the rationale.
Your all-caps product rec intrigues me!
I use dawn foaming dish soap dispensers, with non-dawn soap. Suds on demand.
That’s not really the same at all.
That’s my point.
With a long stick attached so you don’t need to touch it
I like the sponge smell
Why y’all sponge’s smell?
My ass smells like blueberry muffins.
Gonna eat that ass like a muffin
I’m calling the authorities. All of them.
Gross.
I feel so good that I high five myself and dance the floss dance for ten minutes. Am definitely over 30.
I’ve caught myself being excited about buying a ladder once. I’m officially old.
Bro my happy time place now is hardware stores. Similarly would you believe Lowe’s and home Depot around me both don’t carry garage door track sections? Baffling.
Fuck sponges. I get a dopamine rush replacing my brush.
I get a dopamine rush fucking sponges.
My brush has lasted a decade and is still going strong. I hate how gross sponges get
Highlight of my week.
Hot take: there is no food safety reason to replace a sponge if it’s still good at removing food from dishes. If you remove the food source, and the soap removes whatever is living on the dish, whatever is left over will die due to lack of nutrients and water. It’s why in food safety courses you are taught that dishes have to dry completely. Even a sponge which has been used once will be depositing “new” pathogens onto the dish. Stuff is gonna live in the sponge. The sponge doesn’t kill pathogens. Removal, soap, and desiccation do. The sponge’s job is almost purely mechanical.
There is absolutely a food safety reason to replace a sponge. Most bacteria don’t just die when they’re in dry nutrient poor environments. They desiccate themselves into a spore form. Those spores can stay like that for very long periods of time until their environment becomes more wet. Then they can continue their lifecycle until they dry out again. Dry doesn’t mean sterile.
Old sponges are smelly as shit though.
New sponges have an unnaturally nice chemical smell.
Throwing away a sponge: ❌
Cutting off the layer of ick so it can last longer: ✅
Or just use your aging sponges in a rotating lifecycle. I have 4 stages/sponges at one time that slowly get demoted as they age.
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New sponge only gets light jobs. Scrapped clean dishes, pans that just need the oil washed off.
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Middle stage wear is used for stuck on foods and generally more gross dishes.
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Not usable for dishes, but good for counter/stove tops.
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Dirty jobs. Nothing food related. Floors, bathrooms, use with disinfectants.
Yep have done this for years. Cut a corner off a sponge each time it enters its next life phase so you can easily identity the phase it’s in by the way it looks.
i like this system
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Team scrub daddy!
I have OCD, I’ve always liked things to be clean and new-looking.
That’s called having a preference, and a pretty normal one. If you do have OCD then I think you should consider not simplifying it to liking things to be clean and new looking, because I imagine if it’s like mine it’s far more complicated and debilitating.
I have my various issues figured out, I’m autistic and high functioning.
