Household Items You Need To Replace More Often
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Kitchen sponges
It would be nice if the water running from your kitchen faucet removed all food particles from your dishes before you put a soapy sponge to them, but it doesn’t. That sponge collects little bits of pasta sauce and raw egg and sour cream and ground turkey over the weeks. Would you ever eat a plate containing week-old egg and sauce? No? So then why do we clean our dishes with a sponge containing just that? Ideally, you should replace your kitchen sponges at least once a month, and even every two weeks if they get a lot of use. There are tricks to clean out your sponge but when you buy a six-pack of sponges, what does each cost? Not much. It’s not worth the bacterial risk to try cleaning it, so just replace it.
