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CMV: Washing dirty dishes with a sponge without a preemptive cleaning is gross as shit

Let's say you got that big ol' spaghetti sauce pot ready to get cleaned, and it's still rimmed with that beautiful hardened crimson juice. Now you let that bad boy sit in soapy water for a minute to soften everything up, so far so good, but then why would you just dip a sponge in that disgusting spaghetti water, scrub it, rinse the sponge and call it a day? Now you're just left with a smelly spaghetti stained sponge. What I suggest is this: you should scrub it first with a scrub brush (or anything that does not suck up everything, it could be your fingers for all I care) to get most of it clean and then finish off with the trusty sponge, make that pot all nice and pretty. Now I've heard some people say shit like: "well, I can use a sponge or a scrub brush, what's the difference"? WHAT? Do you not understand material matter? Would you be fine eating on a cloth plate and just rinse it off afterwards? A scrub brush does not consume everything it touches, hence it makes way more sense to scrub the nasty out with this first!

Thanks, looking forward to your comments!
gpt
the point of soap is to stop things from sticking together so that they are easier to wash away with water

the point of a sponge is to use friction to unstick things that are stuck.

anything that transfers from gross sponge to plate should be easy to rinse away.

your scrubbing implement need not be clean, as its purpose, like soap, is merely to unstick.  the water is what is meant to carry away the unstuck grossness.

if you are further concerned about bacteria, you can disinfect after scrubbing, with diluted vinegar or other disinfectant, then rinse again.  but scrubbing implements are not meant for disinfecting.