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 ...

Washing dishes, even with a dishwasher, is essential to daily life. Although we typically reach for the first sponge we see, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Garden enthusiasts are being encouraged to chuck their used washing up sponges into the garden this spring, and there's a ...

Gardeners are being urged to put washing up sponges in their garden this year - for a very useful reason. It might sound mad, but the old yellow sponges you use to clean dishes and plates can ...

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.

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 ...