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Originally Posted by Ariadne Umbrell
Isn't that what chefs use? The cloths, folded up?
If you wanted to make things dedicated to heat- you might want to try a wool thing, double knit- two layered knit- I"m fuddled, sorry- anyway- wool with wool padding. I've read about it. No Idle Hands, the social history of American Handknitting is where I've read most of this, I think.
Also, you can knit nylon strips, cut if you are poverty-struck villager after ww2, or purchased, if you're not, to knit scrubbies.
If you are cleaning your sponges nightly- I don't see the problem. Rmember, the research is on what the researcher thinks is "common, accepted practice" - ie, not washing your sponge, or scrubber, or drying towel, yet replacing your washcloth. Does that make sense?
I mean, I've come out as completely barking, on a personality test, b/c the "common, accepted" practice was going to nightclubs, to meet anonymous people. That was the test for "social." I worked for a party planner, my brother was a party promoter- I never, ever went to something without a ticket, and without knowing at least enough of the people there. So, it would be a "new place" with " alot of people," and yet "not with strangers." If I didn't know somebody- somebody had invited them, and I could usually find out who, and get their bona fides, and all the back gossip. So, half the questions were very yes, half the questions were very no, and the psych could not read the test. And yes, he did find me an unbelievable snot.
Or for that matter, that really quite painful book, the cheryl mendelsohn book. If you are in a position to hire a maid, and have some dry cleaning, a cotton mangle isn't something you'll be doing yourself, and why doesn't your maid operate a clothes steamer? She has a whole chapter on maids. If you can afford a maid, the maid is the one running the mangle, for one. For another, you'd have a steamer, and probably a shaping ham or two. Enough of your clothes would be animal fibers, or fragile that you wouldn't press them, ever. And that's if the maid lives with you. Otherwise, you'd be sending your stuff out to the nicest cleaner in town, like just about everyone.
And, for that matter, why is she distinguishing between "glasses" and "crystal"? It grates, like fingers on a blackboard. She's trying to be hoity upty and social climbing, and she doesn't know the lay of the land. It's painful.
Enough of a rant.
Anyway, if you never washed or disinfected your nylon scrubbies, or dishcloths, or wands, they would get nasty, too. I know someone who uses nylons wads b/c they are sanitary, and doesn't wash them. They look like little dirty mice, huddled around her sink spigot.
What makes you happy on doing dishes?
ari
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