It may look innocent, but the kitchen sponge is often the nastiest thing in a kitchen, and the main reason is that people use ...

When it comes to cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen, we often talk about keeping the utensils clean, avoiding damp platforms, keeping dustbins away, and avoiding microplastics. But there exists a ...

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

Fact: Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli can live up to 16 days in it. Born in Alabama, educated in the U.S. and in Europe, Martin lives in Alabama and in Prague. Fluent in German, he is ...

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 ...

Rinsing Raw Chicken Under Water In a 2022 survey of 1,822 consumers in the US, 73 percent of respondents said they washed ...

NORWAY -- Kitchen sponges harbor more bacteria than kitchen brushes, which may be a more hygienic way to clean your dishes, according to researchers in Norway. "Salmonella and other bacteria grow and ...

You’d be reasonable to assume that cleaning products are the one thing in your home that you don’t have to clean. However, you’d be wrong. Sponges have been proven to be a breeding ground for bacteria ...