Dish cloth or sponge?

[azmouse]

Just curious.
I've always used dish cloths, never sponges in the kitchen.

[Shell Beau]

1. No poll! But I use cloth. Sponges get too nasty.

[azmouse]

2. Why no poll?

It's the easiest way to tally results. :)

[Shell Beau]

4. Ha!! The poll didn't show up for me. But now it does, and I voted!!

:7

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Did you know that you can sanitize sponges in the dishwasher?

You can also microwave them for about two minutes. Make sure they are wet and be aware that they will be very hot, so handle them carefully.

[NMDemDist2]

3. i use a sponge on the dishes, but it's ONLY used on the dishes

I have a 'dish cloth' for counters and wipe ups etc that I wash weekly or more

I also have a spray bottle with 5% bleach water to wipe the counters

[Shell Beau]

5. I use the Clorox wipes! I also use a bottle of Clorox Cleanup.

I am a Clorox machine.

[NMDemDist2]

12. expensive and adds to the land fills

that was the conclusion I came to

I can buy a spray bottle for $2.49 (or re-use an old one for free) and put a teaspoon of clorox into a pint of water and viola! food safe spray for cooking surfaces.

I have read the labels on that Clorox Cleanup and I'd just as soon make my own. I owned a gourmet coffee shop in AZ and the health inspector told me to save my cash and just mix my own, if you want to clean and not just disinfect, add a few drops of dishwasher liquid to the mix.

and I am just silly about hating to use paper towels and such, I bought a pack of 6 'waffle weave' dishcloths at the $ Store and I rotate and wash them almost every day



YMMV of course :hi:

[ogneopasno]

6. Neither. I use a dishrag.

[azmouse]

8. Oh no you didn't!!

:spank:

[ogneopasno]

9. .

:hide: :hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Dish cloth. I just never cared much for sponges for kitchen clean up.

[azmouse]

10. And yet it seems like all I hear about is kitchen sponges when

so many of us are still using dish cloths. :shrug: I've never figured it out.

[flvegan]

13. The dogs lick the plates clean.

What?

[azmouse]

15. Practical and environmentally safe.

;)

[QueenOfCalifornia]

14. Other.

I use a dildo with a jigsaw blade attached.

[Deja Q]

16. I'm trying to think of what's spongeworthy...

[LynzM]

17. Other... scrubbie!

Make them myself out of nylon mesh netting...

[azmouse]

18. Can the netting be bought at craft stores?

I'd like to try that.

[LynzM]

23. Yeah, usually

Z's grandma used to buy it by the yard and slice it lengthwise... it was quite a process. I'm still using up stuff she gave me 6 years ago, since I pretty much only have to make 2-3 per year. You can bleach 'em and use 'em until they're worn out.

If you buy it by the yard, you need to cut it so it's about an inch wide for crocheting, and use a medium-sized hook. Pattern is chain 6, circle, 12 double crochets, 24 double crochets, 36 double crochets. Lemme know if you need more details. :)

[coffeenap]

24. You can use plastic grocery bags! A woman on St. John is famous

for crocheting with strips cut from them. I can't find a link to her, but here is the idea:

http://nezumiworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/recycled-plastic-bag-crochet-patterns.html

[LynzM]

25. That's cool!

I'm not sure they'd work for scrubbies, though... it's the texture of the mesh, very fine, that gives them their scrubbing power :)

[annabanana]

19. sponges for the dishes... cloth for the counters..n/t

[tjwash]

20. Dry 'em off with a shamwow

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. Sponge to scrub down, cloth to dry. nt

[DemBones DemBones]

22. There's no "Both" option. . .

I like to use a dishcloth to wash dishes and a sponge to clean counters, and I wash them and my dishtowels frequently.

[hippywife]

26. I really, really love

the ones that the elderly ladies at my retirement center crochet for me. I'm really hooked on using them. They work great on everything and I can throw them in the washer instead of the trash.