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.
Yes, but also, mold does grow on the sponge.
Old sponges are smelly as shit though.
New sponges have an unnaturally nice chemical smell.
Daily sponge microwaving make sense?
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
I was always told I was an old soul
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Team scrub daddy!
yep, their sponges are incredible, still in perfect shape and no smells after a long time.
just don’t get the duster, mine worked so bad I had to throw it away after a week
the white paste stuff is crazy good too
Why’s that?
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 an irrational fear of the bacteria that live on sponge.
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New Sponge Day is my favorite national holiday.
Don’t use sponges. They have tiny holes, where bacteria live.
Use brushes instead.
So, what you’re saying is, bacteria can’t get stuck in brushes… I say that’s not true. Bacteria can live in almost anything.
Yeah, that’s correct. Still, brushes dry much faster than sponges. So the bacteria have less time to grow.
Oh… OK, now that makes sense.
I can’t click the link on mobile, it errors out because I’m in the US. Can anyone share a pic?
here you go:
I HAVE SHOWN RESPONSIBILITY.
How did you gess it?
It doesn’t feel good until after a couple washes
That’s what she said
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.
I just think about the fact that I’m throwing away something I paid for and that used up resources. Doesn’t make me feel that good honestly ^^
Tbh we wash them and use them for really dirty stuff. Like when you need to remove mold with a chlorine spray or poop from your shoes. Then they get tossed because there’s no way I am washing that again.
We’re phasing out single use sponges though, but now I don’t know what to use for the really dirty stuff.
Yeah like scrubbing the bathtub, cleaning spills, carpets, that kind of stuff.
Is there a sensible alternative to single use sponges? If so, would you point one out for me? Obviously I would be interested.
We use a combination of brushes with wooden heads (I don’t like stuff with handles though), structured cotton towels from the drug store, and sponges from Ikea called “Pepprig” which I think work best for most things. They are also plastic but you can wash them easily.
Thanks!
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Same. We actually cut them in half before we use them (no this is not a way to save up $10k in a year) and then quarter them when they turn to crap sponges xD
I was cutting but that surface area is so nice!
So true, I always hear Fight Club’s narrator say “I wanted to destroy something beautiful” when I cut that new sponges
