I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell
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.
With a long stick attached so you don’t need to touch it
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.
My brush looks like it is wishing for death. I use cloth sponges though and those are great!
Yeah, except I’m 20 :/
The internet has told me you don’t enjoy changing sponges then.
Longest I ever kept a sponge for was four months it was a “I’ll do it later” kind of thing, the green scrubbing part had nearly fully been removed lol.
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.
Old sponges are smelly as shit though.
New sponges have an unnaturally nice chemical smell.
Daily sponge microwaving make sense?
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.
Fuck sponges. I get a dopamine rush replacing my brush.
My brush has lasted a decade and is still going strong. I hate how gross sponges get
I get a dopamine rush fucking sponges.
Great mood? Nah
Better mood? Yeah
Meme fits, cause I’m 25.
Well, better mood, yeah 👍.
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!
cleaning a skillet with a sponge and soap?
heathen!
How fragile is your season? A good seasoning holds up great to light abrasion and non-lye soap.
Warm new sponges get me so wet but not in a weird way I just fuck em
I guess I was over 30 when I was 25
It doesn’t feel good until after a couple washes
That’s what she said
I was always told I was an old soul
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 HAVE SHOWN RESPONSIBILITY.
I feel so good that I high five myself and dance the floss dance for ten minutes. Am definitely over 30.
i have an irrational fear of the bacteria that live on sponge.
