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Couldn't you just soak the sponge in bleach? Bleach kills everything and it's a liquid, which can get to the depths of your sponge.

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• fnord123 9y ago
  And now you are cleaning your dishes with a sponge giving off residual amounts of bleach. Which is poisonous.
  • comice 9y ago
    bleach rapidly breaks down into salt and water. I'd be more worried about the salt being too abrasive on your non-stick pans ;)
  • tombrossman 9y ago
    The amount of bleach left on your dishes after washing and rinsing isn't going to poison you. Also, bleach breaks down to mostly salt and water. The real problem with using bleach to clean dishes or eating utensils is that some of us can taste it very strongly, even hours or days later. For example, the first job I had was at a fast food place and we had one idiot who used bleach to soak the plastic soft drink dispenser nozzles in overnight, instead of the provided cleaning solution (which was tasteless). I was the only one working there who noticed but I knew every single time he did it without fail.
  • regulation_d 9y ago
    The sanitizer used in most restaurants I worked in was chlorine based. Obviously in certain quantities, chlorine would be dangerous, but in less quantities it is still commonly used to sanitize stuff you eat off of.