"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
message
>
> Other day on the local nooze (Chicawgo, Channel 7) there was a story about
> a
> young hippie - ish family that's gone the "green" route. Not only do they
> use cloth diapers, but they have eschewed friggin' TERLIT paper! These
> blissninnies use pieces of CLOTH to wipe their arses, these go into a
> container thingy by the loo for eventual washing and re - use...
>
> Ye gawds, I almost PUKED...
>
> Some things are simply false "economy"...



Wow, what a waste. Everyone know you use your hand and then just rinse
after.

"Billy" <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom> wrote in message
...
> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>

Um, lemon juice?

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:02:49 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>A brush washes just as clean, stays more sanitary, and
>can be bleached good as new. I used one brush for over 2 yrs.

So...what do you use to clean countertops, refrigerators, ovens..etc.

aem wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2:15 pm, Kathleen > wrote:
>> Billy wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>>> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>> Troll.
>
> It's just so hard to tell. Sometimes the really dumb questions are
> trolls, attempting to stir up random noise, but sometimes they are
> just really dumb. Then you have to choose between insulting them with
> "troll" or with "dumb." Life is full of tough choices. -aem
>
You mean like the current nutritional value of tea poster?
I vote for troll. It is hard for me to imagine someone that dumb? Yet
we've had a slew of stupid sounding questions lately, IMO. Go figure?

Billy wrote:

> Kathleen started the third grade name calling. Be careful what you
> wish for when you have an immature outlook on life.
>
> It was a legitimate question and I respect your response, Mr.
> Silverton.
>
Actually, your question does seem more valid than many of the dumb ones
we've had here lately.

I vote for washing it in hot water with the white wash and a tad of
bleach, changing them out at *least* once a day (have enough to last you
between laundry days) and making sure you hang it to get air dried
between uses.

notbob wrote:

> I gave up cloths and sponges years ago. They smell and get rancid and
> generally suck. One alleged expert claims cloths and sponges breed more bad
> mojo than your toilet. I don't know if that's true, but I now use a
> dishwashing brush. A brush washes just as clean, stays more sanitary, and
> can be bleached good as new. I used one brush for over 2 yrs.
>
> nb

What do you use to wipe your counters down with?

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
> I use a sponge with an abrasive backside.

Ahah, you know my first wife!

cybercat wrote:
> "Kathleen" > wrote in message

>>
>>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.

Seinfeld reference.

For Elaine, Jerry's friend, the contraceptive sponge was her favorite
method of birth control. When it was announced that it would be taken
off the market due to the risk of toxic shock syndrome (and general
unreliability, IIRC), Elaine drove around and bought up all of them that
she could find and hoarded her supply jealously.

Any prospective bed partner had to be evaluated in light of her finite
supply of birth control - in her terms, "sponge-worthiness".

On Aug 1, 2:51�am, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:02:25 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> >On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>
> >> How long was your vacation? �I replace my dish brushes at least twice
> >> a year because they are just plain worn out.
>
> >Buy better brushes.
>
> *What's better?* �I get the generic grocery store variety. �Do you buy
> premium brushes from some internet company?

LeeValley.com sells orgasmic nylon surgeon's scrub brushes,
inexpensive too. You'll want one at every sink and in every bath/
shower.. great for scrubbing fingernails and toesies, yet soft enough
for a wonderful scalp massage with shampoo.

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...59&cat=2,42551

On Aug 1, 7:07�am, Goomba > wrote:
> notbob wrote:
> > I gave up cloths and sponges years ago. �They smell and get rancid and
> > generally suck. �One alleged expert claims cloths and sponges breed more bad
> > mojo than your toilet. �I don't know if that's true, but I now use a
> > dishwashing brush. �A brush washes just as clean, stays more sanitary, and
> > can be bleached good as new. �I used one brush for over 2 yrs.
>
> > nb
>
> What do you use to wipe your counters down with?

Bounty with.

"cyberdraino" wrote:
>>
> > Does it matter, if it's been used to the point where it's actually
> > begun to STINK?!
>
> I use sponges.

You can shove an entire barrier reef's worth up your abyss and your
coochie would still stink like rotting tidal pool. hehe

Kswck wrote:
> "Billy" <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom> wrote in message
> ...
>> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>>
>
> Um, lemon juice?

I keep mine in a weak bleach solution

In article >,
Billy <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom> wrote:

> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?


Have several available and use a new one daily, rinsing thoroughly
between uses. Maybe a weak bleach solution for a rinse, too. I bought
some cheap washcloths at Target that I use for kitchen stuff -- in a
color that I don't use in the bathrooms, so they don't get confused with
those towels/cloths.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller , blahblahblog is back and
is being updated quite regularly now.
"rec.food.cooking Preserved Fruit Administrator
'Always in a jam. Never in a stew.'" - Evergene

Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
dishes. The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a 'kitchen
hamper' and only those items are washed together. I don't wash
dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.

There's just something about using a dishcloth over and over, no
matter how well it's rinsed, and smearing around yesterdays breakfast
over tonight's supper dishes.

itsjoannotjoann > wrote in news:4ebe5bbd-9601-
:

> Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
> dishes. The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a 'kitchen
> hamper' and only those items are washed together. I don't wash
> dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.
>
> There's just something about using a dishcloth over and over, no
> matter how well it's rinsed, and smearing around yesterdays breakfast
> over tonight's supper dishes.
>
>
>

Dishcolths clean-up nicely in the dishwasher...cutlery box.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
message m...
>
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> Billy wrote:
>> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months? ?
>
> What pray tell is a dish cloth... don't you mean a dish rag, the evil
> schmatah poor folks used to use during the '40s and '50s for washing
> dishes etc... you don't even wanna know the etceteras... but just
> think of the days pre disposible diapers and feminine sanitary
> napkins.
> -------------------
>
> GM:
>
> Other day on the local nooze (Chicawgo, Channel 7) there was a story about
> a
> young hippie - ish family that's gone the "green" route. Not only do they
> use cloth diapers,

*I* used cloth diapers for both of my kids, they were fine.

but they have eschewed friggin' TERLIT paper!

I wouldn't go that far but ... Ever heard of "glad rags?" google it.

These
> blissninnies use pieces of CLOTH to wipe their arses, these go into a
> container thingy by the loo for eventual washing and re - use...
>
> Ye gawds, I almost PUKED...
>
> Some things are simply false "economy"...
>
>

btw, I knit my own dish cloths and sew my own baby diapers and made ALL of
my children's baby food.
I have children that were never "potty trained" but started using the
bathroom on their own before age 2 and children who love to try new foods.

itsjoannotjoann wrote:
> Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
> dishes. The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a 'kitchen
> hamper' and only those items are washed together. I don't wash
> dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.

Why not? Do you separate your underwear from the rest of your laundry
too? Or socks? What possibly could be on those dish cloths that you need
to protect the rest of your dirty laundry from?

I have a lot of faith in my dryer to kill off any cooties that might
survive the washer.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:47:55 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
wrote:

>On Aug 1, 2:51?am, sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:02:25 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>> >On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>>
>> >> How long was your vacation? ?I replace my dish brushes at least twice
>> >> a year because they are just plain worn out.
>>
>> >Buy better brushes.
>>
>> *What's better?* ?I get the generic grocery store variety. ?Do you buy
>> premium brushes from some internet company?
>
>LeeValley.com sells orgasmic nylon surgeon's scrub brushes,
>inexpensive too. You'll want one at every sink and in every bath/
>shower.. great for scrubbing fingernails and toesies, yet soft enough
>for a wonderful scalp massage with shampoo.
>
>http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...59&cat=2,42551

I have one of those. Don't use it much though. I bought it for
mushrooms, but it's too hard on them and I prefer a regular old
fashioned vegetable brush for everything else.

I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:

> I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.

I was, and I don't think I want to know why the LeeValley brushes are
"orgasmic". :|

nb

On 2008-08-01, l, not -l > wrote:

> always mean - immortalized in a song that sparked a revolution in music when
> country white boys fell under the spell of the blues. 1952, Rock Around The
> Clock
>
> "Put your glad rags on and join me hon',
> We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one.

Quite right, quite right!

I didn't catch the "gladrags" ref, though I should have, being old enough to
have experienced the beginnings of R&R. I'm in complete agreement
about the "sparked a revolution" claim about that song. Never really
"caught me", but I'm aware of its historical significance and you are dead
on. Thanks for that excellent trip down geezer lane.

nb

Billy wrote:
> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>


Half fill a glass jar with water. Add a splash of chlorine bleach
and maybe a half tsp. of laundry detergent (optional). Put the
dishcloth in, put the cover on and shake well a few times. Let soak a
while if it's really nasty.

Wring it out, run under cold water, wring again and spread out to dry
over the faucet.

You can save the jar and water for a few days of reuse.

I usually throw the dishcloth into the washer with a bleach wash
and do the jar thing if needed in between.

gloria p

<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:47:55 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
> wrote:
>
>>On Aug 1, 2:51?am, sf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:02:25 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>>> >On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> How long was your vacation? ?I replace my dish brushes at least twice
>>> >> a year because they are just plain worn out.
>>>
>>> >Buy better brushes.
>>>
>>> *What's better?* ?I get the generic grocery store variety. ?Do you buy
>>> premium brushes from some internet company?
>>
>>LeeValley.com sells orgasmic nylon surgeon's scrub brushes,
>>inexpensive too. You'll want one at every sink and in every bath/
>>shower.. great for scrubbing fingernails and toesies, yet soft enough
>>for a wonderful scalp massage with shampoo.
>>
>>http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...59&cat=2,42551
>
> I have one of those. Don't use it much though. I bought it for
> mushrooms, but it's too hard on them and I prefer a regular old
> fashioned vegetable brush for everything else.
>
> I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.

Orgasmic scrub brushes. Jesus.


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

"itsjoannotjoann" > wrote in message
...
> Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
> dishes. The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a 'kitchen
> hamper' and only those items are washed together. I don't wash
> dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.
>
> There's just something about using a dishcloth over and over, no
> matter how well it's rinsed, and smearing around yesterdays breakfast
> over tonight's supper dishes.
>
>

This is why I use sponges. After washing, rinsing them well with hot water
and sqeezing them dry means they never stink. The dish soap I use is
antibacterial.


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

"Kathleen" > wrote:
>
> Seinfeld reference.
>
> For Elaine, Jerry's friend, the contraceptive sponge was her favorite
> method of birth control. When it was announced that it would be taken off
> the market due to the risk of toxic shock syndrome (and general
> unreliability, IIRC), Elaine drove around and bought up all of them that
> she could find and hoarded her supply jealously.
>
> Any prospective bed partner had to be evaluated in light of her finite
> supply of birth control - in her terms, "sponge-worthiness".
>

heh.


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On Aug 1, 11:43*am, Goomba > wrote:
> itsjoannotjoann wrote:
> > Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
> > dishes. *The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a 'kitchen
> > hamper' and only those items are washed together. *I don't wash
> > dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.
>
> Why not? Do you separate your underwear from the rest of your laundry
> too? Or socks? What possibly could be on those dish cloths that you need
> to protect the rest of your dirty laundry from?
>
>
Actually, yes, underwear is washed separately from blue jeans & T
shirts. Bras, panties, nightgowns, and socks are washed together.
Light colored clothes such as light colored T shirts and blouses, and
light colored pants/'bleached blue' jeans and such are washed in a
load. Dark clothes are washed together.
>
>
> I have a lot of faith in my dryer to kill off any cooties that might
> survive the washer.
>
>
It's not cooties I'm worried about, I feel the detergent does it's job
in killing off any critters. It's the lint factor for one thing. Not
fond of spending a morning picking lint off dark clothes.

It's just a quirk of mine not to launder a piece of material that will
be used to wash dishes I will be eating from with something that's
been on my ass. We all have quirks and that's one of mine.

Sheldon wrote:

> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> >
> > I use a sponge with an abrasive backside.
>
> Ahah, you know my first wife!


Lol...

--
Best
Greg

Sheldon wrote:

> "cyberdraino" wrote:
> >>
> > > Does it matter, if it's been used to the point where it's actually
> > > begun to STINK?!
> >
> > I use sponges.
>
> You can shove an entire barrier reef's worth up your abyss and your
> coochie would still stink like rotting tidal pool. hehe


"Ain't it the truth..."

;-)


--
Best
Greg

"Gloria P" > ha scritto nel messaggio
. ..
> Billy wrote:
>> Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>> smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>
>
> Half fill a glass jar with water. Add a splash of chlorine bleach
> and maybe a half tsp. of laundry detergent (optional). Put the dishcloth
> in, put the cover on and shake well a few times. Let soak a while if it's
> really nasty.
>
> Wring it out, run under cold water, wring again and spread out to dry
> over the faucet.
> gloria p

Very similar here, but in any dish that comes to hand and I don't save it.
I really think people are nuts these days. We have machines that wash
things better than ever before in history so we raise the bar and say "Well,
OK, but we can't wash this with that." An artist friend introduced me to
Napisan, a diaper disinfectant as a dish towel soak. It removes stains and
germs all at once. It's an important little tip because it is the ONLY
domestic thing she knows. DH does all the rest, but didn't care enough
about the stained towels. I call that a cool couple.

hahabogus wrote:

> itsjoannotjoann > wrote in
> news:4ebe5bbd-9601-
> :
>
> > Personally, I'm an advocate of a clean dishcloth every time I do
> > dishes. The previous one is hung up to dry and then put in a
> > 'kitchen hamper' and only those items are washed together. I don't
> > wash dishcloths nor dishtowels with other laundry.
> >
> > There's just something about using a dishcloth over and over, no
> > matter how well it's rinsed, and smearing around yesterdays
> > breakfast over tonight's supper dishes.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Dishcolths clean-up nicely in the dishwasher...cutlery box.

I do scrubber sponges that way. The cloths I use would be too large for
that.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

"Sheldon" > wrote in message
...
On Aug 1, 2:51?am, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:02:25 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> >On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>
> >> How long was your vacation? ?I replace my dish brushes at least twice
> >> a year because they are just plain worn out.
>
> >Buy better brushes.
>
> *What's better?* ?I get the generic grocery store variety. ?Do you buy
> premium brushes from some internet company?

LeeValley.com sells orgasmic nylon surgeon's scrub brushes,
inexpensive too. You'll want one at every sink and in every bath/
shower.. great for scrubbing fingernails and toesies, yet soft enough
for a wonderful scalp massage with shampoo.

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...59&cat=2,42551

Looks like a corn brush.

"l, not -l" > wrote in message
...
>
> On 1-Aug-2008, "Woolstitcher" > wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't go that far but ... Ever heard of "glad rags?" google it.
>
> Until the 1992 creation of a product called GladRags, the term meant
> dress-up clothing.

Things change.
A few I can think of right now the word "dime" "nickle" and the word "pot"
lol


For those of us of a certain age, that's what it will
> always mean - immortalized in a song that sparked a revolution in music
> when
> country white boys fell under the spell of the blues. 1952, Rock Around
> The
> Clock
>
> "Put your glad rags on and join me hon',
> We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one.
> CHORUS:
> We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
> We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
> We're gonna rock around the clock tonight."
>
> OK, I was only 5 years old at the time; but, my cousin was 13 and visited
> very often with her portable record-player and when she was our sitter,
> she
> controlled the radio.
>
>
> --
> Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

notbob wrote:
> On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>
>> I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.
>
> I was, and I don't think I want to know why the LeeValley brushes are
> "orgasmic". :|
>
> nb

If they are orgasmic, then you are not using them right.

Becca

merryb wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 4:17 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> > merryb wrote:
> > > They are safer than you think- at least they have a chance of drying
> > > out after a day or so...I heard that nukking a damp sponge on high for
> > > 2 minutes will take care of like 98% of bad critters. I have a little
> > > basket that has suction cups that hangs onto the inside of your sink,
> > > so my stuff dries out pretty quick.
> >
> > I have something similar. Anyway, coincidentally and because
> > I haven't cleaned off my desk, I have last Sunday's
> > Marilyn Vos Savant's column right here. She says you have
> > to nuke it for 4 minutes.
> >
> > I guess that's to get 100% of the critters. Disclaimer, don't burn
> > yourself on the sponge.
> >
> > nancy
>
> Thanks for the info! No kidding about the sponge- it's hot after 2
> min- 4 would be ouchier!

Four minutes seems to be on the extreme side of hot to me (in the
nuker!). Nothing worse than over-cooked popcorn in a MW, and I'd hate
to think what odor a burnt sponge might cause.

Sky, who knows too well about over-nuked popcorn (NO, I wasn't the
culprit, just the victim)

--
Ultra Ultimate Kitchen Rule - Use the Timer!
Ultimate Kitchen Rule -- Cook's Choice

"Becca" > wrote in message
...
> notbob wrote:
>> On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.
>>
>> I was, and I don't think I want to know why the LeeValley brushes are
>> "orgasmic". :|
>>
>> nb
>
> If they are orgasmic, then you are not using them right.
>
*cackle*


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:13:33 -0500, Sky >
wrote:

>Four minutes seems to be on the extreme side of hot to me (in the
>nuker!).

Thanks all for your suggestions. Since I don't buy "bleach", I
decided to try the microwave oven. Two minutes seems to be the
magic number for time. This morning the "dish cloth", i.e. counter
rag, didn't have a single whiff of odor. I don't wash dishes...and
that is why I had two Bosch dishwashers installed on either side of
the sink in the new house.

I did chuckle when taking the cloth out of the microwave oven
though...held it in the air with tongs and though of Larry "Bud"
Melman handing out hot towels from the Letterman show years ago. Too
bad he died...Larry "Bud" was funny.

Billy wrote:

> Thanks all for your suggestions. Since I don't buy "bleach", I
> decided to try the microwave oven. Two minutes seems to be the
> magic number for time. This morning the "dish cloth", i.e. counter
> rag, didn't have a single whiff of odor.

Is there any reason you don't just use a freshly laundered cloth every
morning? Or more often as needed?

On Aug 1, 6:34*am, Sheldon > wrote:
> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
> > I use a sponge with an abrasive backside.
>
> Ahah, you know my first wife!

=======================

Now THAT's funny!

Lynn in Fargo

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:04:27 -0400, cybercat wrote:

> <sf> wrote in message ...
>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:47:55 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Aug 1, 2:51?am, sf wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:02:25 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>>>> >On 2008-08-01, sf <sf> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >> How long was your vacation? ?I replace my dish brushes at least twice
>>>> >> a year because they are just plain worn out.
>>>>
>>>> >Buy better brushes.
>>>>
>>>> *What's better?* ?I get the generic grocery store variety. ?Do you buy
>>>> premium brushes from some internet company?
>>>
>>>LeeValley.com sells orgasmic nylon surgeon's scrub brushes,
>>>inexpensive too. You'll want one at every sink and in every bath/
>>>shower.. great for scrubbing fingernails and toesies, yet soft enough
>>>for a wonderful scalp massage with shampoo.
>>>
>>>http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...59&cat=2,42551
>>
>> I have one of those. Don't use it much though. I bought it for
>> mushrooms, but it's too hard on them and I prefer a regular old
>> fashioned vegetable brush for everything else.
>>
>> I thought nb was talking about dish brushes.
>
> Orgasmic scrub brushes. Jesus.
>

well, somebody here did say they had orgasms washing the dishes.

your pal,
blake