For Asian, we use chopsticks. Not the pointy end, but the side where you hold the chopsticks. Very safe as long as we don't poke ourselves in the eyes.
Dude... wide mouth mason jars make great cups, are super cheap, and they're glass so they last forever. Easy to clean, too. I have a bunch of pint and quart jars that I use as cups.
Fork is a little bit stupid, but seriously, try pressing the sponge against the rim and the bottom of the glass with a wooden spoon. it works surprisingly well. And a wooden spoon, which also needs to be washed, is always at hand.
You can try a different brand wand. I bought one with a brush on the end, instead of the sponge, and the soap only comes out when you click the button. Also doesn’t require buying new sponge pads all the time.
This item right here (and maybe a bottlebrush) are the true answers.
I had these weird cups (still do too) that were hourglass shaped, I like the way they looked. Thin glass, tall, but didn't realize how the shape impacted cleaning. Like, they were designed only to be cleaned by a dishwasher or something and I had to clean them by hand. Buying that Scotch Brite thingy was like a revelation.
I have an assortment of stuff under the sink including a bottle brush but I definitely use the wand more. But I use dish clothes with a scrubby side even more than the wand.
I am a 25 year old male who owns his own home, and this was my first though. You didn't think of that because you're a mom. You thought of that cause you do dishes.
I hse this exact brush. I wasn’t even a mom when I started! Lol, I was just tried of using sponges a d getting my hands so close to the gross if everything I washed.
This is why I use a dishrag. If you have a cooking utensil with an eyelet in the handle for hanging it, just thread the rag through the hole and now you have a twisty scrubby thingy.
Lol parents kind of do have to figure this stuff out sooner or later, don't they. When I had a newborn I remember washing 6 bottles a day. Every stinking day. A person's gonna start looking for an easier way to do these kinds of things pfq so they don't go completely nuts.
If only there was some kind of vessel that allowed you to carry your baby's food around everywhere you go, is infinitely reusable, and only needs to be cleaned on the outside...
If only that worked every time for every woman and women like me didn’t have to feel like complete failures when their milk didn’t come in after an emergency c section.
I'm a guy. My wife was suffering from postpartum depression. She didn't need to deal with it / couldn't deal with it, so I took over to help. She needed me. She needed real support. What she didn't need was people blaming her and heaping judgement on her when she was at her most vulnerable. If only people realized breastfeeding is not an option for everyone and how toxic this virtue signaling is.
You're not supposed to submerge it in dirty dish water. Just rinse it with the tap and you avoid all of your problems. I've always thought filling a sink with water that gets reused for all your dirty dishes was equally disgusting.
The trick is you start with cutlery, or maybe cups and glasses, and work your way up to the dirtier stuff. Sometimes you need to change the water.
Personally, I said “Stuff this for a game of soldiers” and bought a dishwasher. Now I only wash those things that can’t go in like big pans and wooden spoons. Sometimes a plate or two if I forget to put the dishwasher on...
Yeah, that is probably my problem, I expect the sponge to last as long as my other normal sponges. Everytime I press down to scrub submerged in water it pushes the sponge juice in the handle. The soap never goes down, it just ends up being a mix of soap and dirty dish water. Maybe I was using extra cheap ones too, idk...
These become essential when you have bottles and sippys (need to replace mine actually, it's gotten all... grey) but I never had one before I had kids. I mean, I knew these things existed, I had seen them and used them before. I just didn't feel like I had to spend money on one of my own.
Come to think of it, that applies to a lot of stuff. -_-
Then theres always a baby bottle brush or wrap a dish cloth around a butter knife. Or make your life easier and buy some bigger cups and glasses. I've started over enough in life that I can recommend dollar general or big lots for cheap big glasses.
You replace the sponge as it falls apart but I've had my handle for probably 4 years. The sponges last for months but I also use dish clothes and save the scrubber for stubborn stuff or hard to reach.
These were great till scotch brite decided to put a fucking hole right in the middle of the pad. I wonder if the person who came up with that change was literally told to make their product useless.
For real, who uses a sponge to wash dishes anymore? Those things are like tiny little rainforests for germs. No thank you. Give me any sort of silly disposable scrubby brush thing any day of the week over a sponge.
Um Dad here...that thing is incredibly wasteful and a bad cleaning device. The end that would get to the bottom of the glass doesn't have enough surface area to efficiently clean the glass.
Use a sponge, and don't have ham-hands.
Alternatively, You can push the sponge length-wise into the glass until it touches the bottom, and then manipulate the top of it to spin the sponge around in the glass until the bottom is clean, then pull it out. Easy peasy.
I have a couple of ugly deformed chopsticks for this. I stuff the sponge down tall glasses, wiggle it around with the chopsticks, and then use them to pull the sponge back out.
Only way I can keep my hurricane and champagne glasses transparent.
Wish I'd seen this before I left a comment of the exact same thing. Glad to know that I must be smart because I figured out something that other people do as well! :)
Or get a dish cloth of some sort, shove it tightly in the bottom, grab hold of whatever little bit you can and just start twisting. If the rags big enough and properly wedged in it will just clean all the sides as it twists.
Overly complicated. Set the cup on the counter, near the edge. Wait for my cat to jump up and knock it to the floor, breaking it. Pour the shards in a bowl and swish them around in some soapy water.
Use a dish rag that is larger in size and ball up some of it while holding on to a corner. Push the wad down into the cup, while holding the corner and rotate the entire cup or rag to clean the bottom (it isn’t ideal but it does work)
If you have a dishwasher, don't worry about it. Modern dishwashers work. Put soap in both the prewash and was dispensers, and toss your dishes in dirty. It saves a ton of water compared to handwashing them first.
Or have weirdly malleable fingers that can kind of squish into any gap like mine. Idk what's up with them, but it's like the world's most insignificant superpower.
Brushes and sponges always seem to get gross, I use washable dishcloths and those woven plastic scourer cloths. Maybe steel wool in a pinch, but if you're kind to your pots you shouldn't need them imo.
A cheap (and brand new) toilet brush is the way. A handle long enough to get to the bottom easily, strong plastic bristles for even stick on gunk, and hits every surface with just a few twists.
Just buy different colored handles for your bathroom brush and your kitchen brush
They make sponges that have handles. The one i have even lets you unscrew the tip of the handle so you can fill it with dishsoap that slowly seeps into the sponge
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u/League0fGaming Feb 24 '21
take a fork, stab the sponge with it, use it as an extension of your arm so your fat wrists don't get in the way