I’m attempting to phase out disposable kitchen sponges and scrubbers because you’re supposed to throw them out after a week or so and most hacks to clean them actually cause
more bacteria to grow on them – ew!
That adds up to a lot of kitchen sponges in the trash and if I'm lucky, compost bin.*sad face*
When I hand wash dishes I’m trying to with reusables over disposables. I’m currently washing dishes with reusable
Skoy cloths (learn how you can wash them in the dishwasher here) and reusable
Paperless kitchen pot scrubbers you can also wash in the dishwasher (learn more here.) We also use
this cast iron chainmail cast iron scrubber to clean sticky stuff from our cast iron pans. (
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And most recently, I’m washing up with a set of handmade dish wash clothes my mother in law made and gave me for Christmas. The cotton dishcloths are quickly becoming my favorite (if there is such a thing about having a favorite pot scrubber. Oh, the joys of adulthood!) because I can easily pop them in the washing machine a couple of uses and pull out a clean one lickety split.
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Her thoughtful gift has me toying with picking up crochet again (something I haven’t done since I was a kid) or maybe actually finishing a project on that knitting loom (a
knitting loom looks like this) I bought and gave up on. Which in that case, making dish cloths, wash cloth, and pot scrubber are the perfect project to practice knit and crochet patterns!
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