Every household has a particular way of washing dishes. Some like to use little crocheted rags or microfiber dishcloths. Others prefer the plain kitchen sponge or the one you attach to a dish wand ...

Handwashing dishes remains relatively popular among Britons, as most British households still take their plates and cutlery to the kitchen sink. Approximately 51 percent of people do not own a ...

NORWAY -- Kitchen sponges harbor more bacteria than kitchen brushes, which may be a more hygienic way to clean your dishes, according to researchers in Norway. "Salmonella and other bacteria grow and ...

It happens to most of us at one point or another — you walk into your kitchen to do dishes, and you smell something funky. Funky like shoes you wore on a hike through a swamp. It's your sponge. You've ...

If you're someone who prefers to wash up by hand rather than using a dishwasher, you probably reach for the trusty sponge or scourer to scrub away food remnants from your dishes. However, it turns out ...

It may look innocent, but the kitchen sponge is often the nastiest thing in a kitchen, and the main reason is that people use ...

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Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion ...

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