Running your sponges through the dishwasher helps kill bacteria. Scotch-Brite recommends replacing sponges at least once a month. It’s an inevitability on the order of death and taxes: If you cook, ...

Kitchen sponges are dirtier than toilets. In fact, it's common knowledge among microbiologists that the things you use to clean your dishes are the dirtiest objects in your home. A recent study ...

You're probably not doing it often enough. Whether I'm wiping off the counter or scrubbing a pot, I reach for a versatile ...

You may cringe each time you wring out your dirty, old kitchen sponge, thinking you should replace it. And often, you then forget. But you really should swap it out for a new one – and probably more ...

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

If you had to rank the dirtiest things in your home, you’d probably start with the bathroom—the toilet, the plunger, or the hand towels you don’t wash as often as you should. But as it turns out, if ...

Your kitchen sponge, a silent workhorse, harbors billions of bacteria, making it dirtier than toilets. Its porous nature, combined with warmth and moisture, creates a breeding ground for harmful ...

That feeling of a pristine kitchen can be fleeting. You turn your back for one second, and suddenly there’s a new ...

A kitchen sponge is one of the dirtiest items in your home. Learn how to clean a kitchen sponge and tell when it's time to toss it. One of the hardest working tools in the kitchen is a sponge. You ...

Kitchen sponges, commonly used for everyday cleaning, can harbour harmful bacteria that could potentially lead to life-threatening illnesses such as pneumonia and kidney failure, according to experts.

Scientists have long thrown shade at the unassuming kitchen sponge. The household staple skulks in sinks amid dirty dishes and soggy food scraps, sopping up and amplifying microbial forces capable of ...

For the first time, scientists have carefully analyzed all the critters in a kitchen sponge. There turns out to be a huge number. Despite recent news reports, there is something you can do about it.