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> cybercat wrote:
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>> "Kathleen" > wrote in message
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>>>Janet Baraclough wrote:
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>>>>The message >
>>>>from Kathleen > contains these words:
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>>>>>Woolstitcher wrote:
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>>>>>>"Billy" <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:k0a494povpfev9prhmb36prc8m227utr0n@4ax. com...
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>>>>>>>Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>>>>>>>smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can nuke a dish cloth for 60 or so seconds when wet. It's the
>>>>>>last thing that I do before I go to bed. I fold it in 1/4's and nuke
>>>>>>it.
>>>>>>I take it out in the morning. It can be taken out right away ... I
>>>>>>just
>>>>>>don't do it that way (it's too hot).
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>>>>>GOOD GRIEF! It's a freakin' dishrag! Use it, throw it in the hamper,
>>>>>get out a clean one. If it stinks it's dirty with food, bacteria,
>>>>>mold. I'm no clean freak but it's not like you have to take out a loan
>>>>>to buy enough dish clothes to last between loads of laundry. Why use
>>>>>stopgap measures on something that cheap that you RUB ON YOUR DISHES?
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>>>>
>>>> Can we just define "dishcloth" please, before the flamewar?
>>>>
>>>> Is the OP talking about a large dry cotton rectangle used to dry and
>>>>polish clean washed dishes..
>>>> Or, a small wet fibre rag used to clean dishes in the sink, wipe
>>>>round the sink etc.
>>>
>>>Does it matter, if it's been used to the point where it's actually begun
>>>to STINK?!
>>>
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>> I use sponges. I hate dishcloths.
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> And exactly what tasks do you consider "sponge-worthy"?
>

"Sponge-worthy?" I'm not getting you. I USE A SPONGE instead of a dishcloth.
This means for washing dishes, wiping up the counter, that sort of thing. I
use the kind with the scrubber on the other side for non-stick surfaces,
wash them in hot water after every use, and use scouring powder or softscrub
on my Calphalon.


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