Oh. cringe

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      6 days ago

      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.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
          hexagon
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          6 days ago

          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.

          • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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            6 days ago

            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.

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
              hexagon
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              6 days ago

              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

              • REgon [they/them]
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                6 days ago

                That's why you have more than one sponge and you put the wet one on the drying rack with all your dishes

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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        6 days ago

        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.

      • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        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

        • peppersky [he/him, any]
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          5 days ago

          Modern Americans are disgusted by their own bodies and the world to a frankly unimaginable degree

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
          hexagon
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          6 days ago

          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.

          • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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            6 days ago

            For scrubbing I just use steel wool

            Ironically this is probably causing micro-scratches in the enamel and plastic that harbor bacteria.

          • REgon [they/them]
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            6 days ago

            Bar rat

            You told me you wouldn't tell people about our arrangement