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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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I'm anti sponge. Let me just keep wetting the best bacteria breeding ground ever and rubbing it on my food waste. I'll use it day after day.
you squeeze the sponge out after you're done with it
You may notice that a sponge is just less wet after being squeezed and not dry. You'd be shocked how little water microorganisms need. Way less than we need.
Things dry over time if kept in a well ventilated area, especially if they aren't very wet like say a sponge you squeeze the water out of.
Over time being the key thing there. If you're washing dishes once a day even it'd not enough time and that also just makes most bacteria go dormant until it wet again. Sponge bad
That's why you have more than one sponge and you put the wet one on the drying rack with all your dishes
Eh, it doesn't really matter. The bacteria is rinsed off with the dish-soap after you're done scrubbing them, sort of the whole point. Assuming you're not sucking up raw chicken juice and leaving it to air-dry it shouldn't be a bio-hazard worth worrying about.
Thing is, that's what most people do and people don't get food poisoning from eating off their plates, so it's clearly working, and there's an argument to be had against bleaching every object that a human ever touches as far as immunology is concerned
Modern Americans are disgusted by their own bodies and the world to a frankly unimaginable degree
You're supposed to sanitize the sponges
I do that with a bar rat that I have several of that I hang over the dinkmtondry over night and then toss in the laundry. For scrubbing I just use steel wool.to get the tougher bits off and cloth the rest.
Ironically this is probably causing micro-scratches in the enamel and plastic that harbor bacteria.
You told me you wouldn't tell people about our arrangement
Just microwave it for like two seconds all the bacteria will explod.
Microwave it and clean it with bleach