Why use a dish wand over a scrub sponge?

[JEDI]

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why use this over a regular scrub sponge?

 

[snoopy7548]

More expensive than sponges = greater profits.

I've always used sponges. I don't see how a dish wand could work as well as a sponge in tight areas/corners.

 

[lxskllr]

I use a dish rag. Old thermal shirts work well. Sponges suck.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Dishwashers are more sanitary and less work. Washing dishes by hand you're just spreading germs between all the dishes using the same old rag or brush in dirty water. With dishwasher it flushes out everything, gets super hot, and is just better.

When I bought my house one of the first electrical jobs I did was free up breaker space so I can run a 20 amp to the kitchen for a dishwasher since there was none. I made the room. Work smart, not hard.

 

[deadlyapp]

Dishwashers are more sanitary and less work. Washing dishes by hand you're just spreading germs between all the dishes using the same old rag or brush in dirty water. With dishwasher it flushes out everything, gets super hot, and is just better.

When I bought my house one of the first electrical jobs I did was free up breaker space so I can run a 20 amp to the kitchen for a dishwasher since there was none. I made the room. Work smart, not hard.

Wat? How do you hand wash your dishes?

I don't dispute that dishwashers are better, but if you do any cooking at all, then there are many kitchen implements that just make no sense to not wash by hand.

FWIW I use a sponge. We replace it every month or two depending on how worn it is. We dishwash all our normal containers, plates, bowls, silverware, etc but big bowls, nice knives, cutting boards, etc all get hand washed. We have a soap dispenser as part of our sink unit so having something that dispenses soap onto the sponge for us isn't needed.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Personally I don't like the wands as they are higher maintenance. Soap leaks out of them in my experience and that's wasteful and annoying. I can just squeeze out a sponge and launch it into it's dish when I'm done. I don't have to have the sponge in a certain orientation.

 

[BoomerD]

We bought a bundle of the Debbie Meyer "Genius Sponges" a couple of years ago from one of the TV selling channels. They claim their sponges resist bacterial build up that makes them stink...and that they will outlast other brands 10/1...and if they start to get funky...stick them in the top rack of the dishwasher.
After using them for a couple of years...they ain't lying. They scrub better than the Scotch-brand blue scrubby sponges, out last them by a huge margin...and the dishwasher trick (which works for most sponges) does the trick.

 

[WelshBloke]

We bought a bundle of the Debbie Meyer "Genius Sponges" a couple of years ago from one of the TV selling channels.

If anyone ever wonders if they are getting old that would be the moment. Buying dish sponges from a TV shopping channel.


sorry BoomerD! But hey! Getting old is better than the alternative!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wat? How do you hand wash your dishes?

I don't dispute that dishwashers are better, but if you do any cooking at all, then there are many kitchen implements that just make no sense to not wash by hand.

FWIW I use a sponge. We replace it every month or two depending on how worn it is. We dishwash all our normal containers, plates, bowls, silverware, etc but big bowls, nice knives, cutting boards, etc all get hand washed. We have a soap dispenser as part of our sink unit so having something that dispenses soap onto the sponge for us isn't needed.

Once a month? Case in point. For the stuff I do wash by hand I just use a paper towel but if I do use a sponge or rag it's a fresh one, then it goes straight in the wash. Normally though I just throw everything in the dishwasher. I avoid putting non stick pans though but sometimes I put it in there anyway. I don't buy anything unless it says it's dishwasher safe.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[snoopy7548]

Once a month? Case in point. For the stuff I do wash by hand I just use a paper towel but if I do use a sponge or rag it's a fresh one, then it goes straight in the wash. Normally though I just throw everything in the dishwasher. I avoid putting non stick pans though but sometimes I put it in there anyway. I don't buy anything unless it says it's dishwasher safe.

Do all Canadians "wash" their dishes with paper towels?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Do all Canadians "wash" their dishes with paper towels?

No I'm just lazy and don't want to use up a rag for just one dish and don't want to let a used rag lying around either only to use it again after it's had time to incubate bacteria from the previous wash. I don't wash dishes by hand often but sometimes I'll just grab a paper towel if I have to wash something because I want to use it now.

99% of the time I just throw stuff in the dishwasher.

 

[ElFenix]

We replace it every month or two depending on how worn it is.

ew

 

[JEDIYoda]

I use a blow torch!! Fire kills all germs!!

 

[sdifox]

Dishwashers are more sanitary and less work. Washing dishes by hand you're just spreading germs between all the dishes using the same old rag or brush in dirty water. With dishwasher it flushes out everything, gets super hot, and is just better.

When I bought my house one of the first electrical jobs I did was free up breaker space so I can run a 20 amp to the kitchen for a dishwasher since there was none. I made the room. Work smart, not hard.

You really don't know how dishwashers work do you...

 

[sdifox]

As to op, I don't get those things either. Very hard to use.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You really don't know how dishwashers work do you...

They are pretty simple devices... But not sure what knowing the internal workings of one has to do with anything. They are still easier to use either way, and more sanitary.

 

[sdifox]

They are pretty simple devices... But not sure what knowing the internal workings of one has to do with anything. They are still easier to use either way, and more sanitary.

It cycles the same water while in wash stage, so I don't see how your arguments holds water.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It cycles the same water while in wash stage, so I don't see how your arguments holds water.

But it's very hot water, and it does change it between cycles. With hand washing you're only heating the water hot enough to not burn yourself. Dish washers use the water straight from the water heater and also have an element to keep it hot.

The commercial ones are really skookum too, they super heat the water into basically a steam. Those are better than the consumer ones, but even a cheap consumer one beats hand washing.

 

[UsandThem]

It cycles the same water while in wash stage, so I don't see how your arguments holds water.

Mine has a sensor that determines the "dirt" level of the water, and will drain and add clean water (if needed) prior to releasing the detergent tray and doing the full wash cycle.

It also has the option of doing a sanitation cycle for both washing an rinsing cycles which heats the water up to a high temperature (I can't remember what the exact temp is, but I think it's somewhere in the 160+ degree area).

 

[sdifox]

Mine has a sensor that determines the "dirt" level of the water, and will drain and add clean water (if needed) prior to releasing the detergent tray and doing the full wash cycle.

It also has the option of doing a sanitation cycle for both washing an rinsing cycles which heats the water up to a high temperature (I can't remember what the exact temp is, but I think it's somewhere in the 160+ degree area).

I am saying it nullifies his argument. Dishwashing is about getting the grease and germs off your plates. Soap + water is good enough.

 

[WelshBloke]

I am saying it nullifies his argument. Dishwashing is about getting the grease and germs off your plates. Soap + water is good enough.

Soap and hot water. And the water in a dishwasher is hotter than you can use when you are handwashing. Unless you are one of those old ladies with asbestos fingers!
That said handwashing is more than sanitary enough for dishes. It's just that a dishwasher is way more convenient.

 

[sdifox]

Soap and hot water. And the water in a dishwasher is hotter than you can use when you are handwashing. Unless you are one of those old ladies with asbestos fingers!
That said handwashing is more than sanitary enough for dishes. It's just that a dishwasher is way more convenient.

Yeah it is convenient, just takes too long. I would say the high temp is really to wash the dishwasher rather than the dishes.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I am saying it nullifies his argument. Dishwashing is about getting the grease and germs off your plates. Soap + water is good enough.

That was only one of my arguments, the other is that it's convenient, and that is probably the #1 reason I use one. The fact that it's more sanitary is just an added bonus. It might take longer but not like you need to sit there and do any work.

I'm a big fan of automating repetitious tasks or otherwise finding ways to make repetitious tasks easier. There's no sense in wasting your own time and energy on something that needs to be done over and over again if you can get a machine to do it.

 

[sdifox]

That was only one of my arguments, the other is that it's convenient, and that is probably the #1 reason I use one. The fact that it's more sanitary is just an added bonus. It might take longer but not like you need to sit there and do any work.

I'm a big fan of automating repetitious tasks or otherwise finding ways to make repetitious tasks easier. There's no sense in wasting your own time and energy on something that needs to be done over and over again if you can get a machine to do it.

you are one person, how many dirty dishes can you generate?