Microwave experiments cause sponge disasters

Reuters ^ | 01/25/07

[WV Mountain Mama]

*snicker*

[grjr21]

But several experimenters  posters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge reading the article.


That looks more familiar.

[cripplecreek]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

See post 10.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'll bet CD's stink worse than sponges, but at leastCD's make really cool light emissions.

[SlowBoat407]

I have nuked my sponges regularly for quite some time. I tried nuking the office dish scrubber the other day, starting with a 1-minute test, and one portion of it melted. I'm guessing there was something besides wet plastic in there. Since I was actually observing the test under a controlled situation, I was able to kill the power before it got ugly.

[GYPSY286]

When I have a full dishwasher load, I add any sponges I used and my dishrag too. Cleans them beautifully. I also put in my toothbrush and holder at least once a month.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The washing machine works well, too. Add it to your whites so the bleach will disinfect it.

Boiling water will work (which is essentially what the microwave is doing...)

[andy58-in-nh]

[xsmommy]

i like to put some clorox in my sink and soak the sponges in there and use that to disinfect the sink area as well.

[xsmommy]

i'm wondering what Bill O'reilly uses to keep his loofah germ-free.... since we are taking about spongses...

[Fawn]

...or eliminate people who make mean sick comments.

[martin_fierro]

disastrous results

Oh fercrissakes.

THIS is a disaster.

THIS is not.

[presidio9]

One man's disaster is another man's 15 minutes of fame...

[SeeSalt]

"This is so stupid! Sponges are cheap, just buy another one!"


..or deep it in alcohol(isopropyl or ethyl) for 20 minutes.

[Tanniker Smith]

A plot by Squidward, I tell you!

[cripplecreek]

I was doing it for the good of huge manatee.

[Arrowhead1952]

Last, people should be careful when removing the sponge from the microwave as it will be hot."

That's like Bill Engvall talking about the guy driving a car around for 45 minutes, gets out and grabs the tailpipe and says, "Darn, that's hot."

HERE'S YOUR SIGN!

[Tanniker Smith]

I guess they felt this experiment was sponge-worthy...

Ooooh, that just seems so wrong.

[westmichman]

Paul Harvey even covered this serious problem in his news this morning. Get the sponge wet first you idiots!