Dishcloth or Sponge?

Another random question from me. :lol3:


Which do you prefer for dish and kitchen cleaning, a dishcloth or a sponge?



I grew up always using dishcloths and never really got out of the habit.

Dishwasher! :lol3: :tongue2:

When I do handwash dishes, I use a sponge. I'm not even sure how to use a dishcloth for washing dishes. . .fold it up so it's thick like a sponge? Or use it like a washcloth, basically a scrubbier version of just using your fingers? Cloths don't hold soap like sponges either.

Dishwasher here too but sponges when handwashing. Those go in the dishwasher too

A dishcloth for handwashed items! Sponges always seem very unsanitary to me (though some people put them through the dishwasher).

jcat said:

A dishcloth for handwashed items! Sponges always seem very unsanitary to me (though some people put them through the dishwasher).

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I put mine in the dishwasher but you can also microwave them to kill germs. They need to be at least damp though. 

I use a dishcloth probably because that was what I grew up with.  Now that it is usually just me I rarely use the dishwasher.

Paper towels (and dishwasher).

I really dislike touching sponges and wipes. They never seem clean enough once used.  I know it isn't good for the environment but paper towels are the way for me.

I use a sponge. I change it out often..

I have a dishwasher, but for one person, it hardly ever get filled. I do pre-rinse, so00kind of pointless. I do use the dishwasher when I am sick or when I really do cook a good meal. 

Paper towels.

Sponge. I only handwash even though I do have a dishwasher. I don't dirty enough dishes in a day to make up a full dishwasher load.

Dishcloth. I change the dishcloth every day. I have a set of bar towels and when I cook, I sling a bar towel over my shoulder to wipe my hands as I'm cooking. I change the bar towel every day. Bed Bath and Beyond has some nice bar towels and they really come in handy when I'm cooking.

Never got into the habit of using a sponge in the kitchen. And I use enough paper towels as it is for cleaning up after the cats and dog that I'm not going to use them for dishes yet. I hate using a lot of paper towels.

I use a dish cloth for washing dishes and a sponge for stuck on foods. I clean the kitchen with j cloths that I replace once or twice a week.

I use a sponge. My mother always used a dishcloth, but she called it a dishrag. 

DreamerRose said:

 
I use a sponge. My mother always used a dishcloth, but she called it a dishrag. 

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My mother also called it a dishrag and also called a washcloth, a washrag.  None of these items were actually rags, mind you, but that's what her mother called them, so she did as well.  That stopped with her generation.  No rags for me. 

To answer the question, I use both.  It really depends on what I have handy or if I've run out of clean sponges.

I knew someone would remember dish rags and wash rags. I hated it when I grew up. It really did end with that generation.

DreamerRose said:

I knew someone would remember dish rags and wash rags. I hated it when I grew up. It really did end with that generation.

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That's the terms that my mother and other women where I grew up used.  I think the meaning of the word changed with my generation and that was when the term 'dish rag' was dropped.

Denice said:

 
That's the terms that my mother and other women where I grew up used.  I think the meaning of the word changed with my generation and that was when the term 'dish rag' was dropped.

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I think there's more to it - I believe the people in the previous generation to our parents actually used rags. My great grandfather was a photographer at the turn of the 20th Century, and I have some photos he took of people clothed in nothing but strips of rags. My sons and their generation have never seen anything like that. I need to find that photo and get it on my computer so I can share it. 

I always grew up with washing dishes with sponges, but drying them with a "dishcloth".  This was in the 1960's.  Now however, paper towels if the job is too dirty. I wish I had a dishwasher.

Dishrags to wash dishes was always foreign to me, but I know my friends used them in their houses.

I don't understand how you wash dishes with a dish cloth. I use a sponge. We only use the dishwasher when the whole family come. In the 'olden days' we dried up with a teacloth. Now I air-dry.

Stewball said:

I don't understand how you wash dishes with a dish cloth. I use a sponge. We only use the dishwasher when the whole family come. In the 'olden days' we dried up with a teacloth. Now I air-dry.

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I do the same... I air dry also..