While it's hardly a fan-favorite chore, taking care when washing your dishes is essential to ensure they get the deepest clean possible. Giving kitchenware a quick rinse and calling it a day can leave ...

and they all promise to make your dishes dazzle. But will they? To find out, I tested 10 of the most popular sponges on the market, washing my way through weeks of dirty dishes, cocktail glasses and ...

If you're like most people, you use a kitchen sponge every day to clean your dishes. But is the sponge itself clean? The answer is probably no. "That thing is very dirty," Philip Tierno ...

I usually wash them in cold water like I wash all ... Items that are regularly wet or in contact with food, like sponges, dish brushes, and mopheads, need more frequent cleaning and replacing.

The Jetz-Scrubz Scrubber Sponge, which a Wirecutter writer previously recommended for hand-washing dishes, costs about $15 for a pack of three. Upon testing it further for this article ...

What is the science behind washing your dishes? Which method leaves dishes cleaner – and crucially – more germ-free: washing with hot or cold water? Richard and his wife Dian got in touch via ...