Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Three - SquarePants

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. If nautical nonsense is something you wish - then drop on the deck and flop like a fish. Okay - I think that kinda sums up my previous knowledge of sponges. And, I admit that is my knowledge of fictional talking sponges. Not mute dishwashing sponges. Anyway, I was cruising around Wikihow one day a while back when I came across an interesting article [please note: probably only interesting to me]. I decided to try it out. Here's the teaser:



What the heck do I have in that microwave? Could it be? Why yes, it's a sponge! Take a closer look:



Tonight after doing the dishes I microwaved a sponge. Why on earth would I do this? Well, it actually has some practical reasoning behind it - I'm not just the kinda person who takes a lot of drugs and shoves things into the microwave [like we all learned about in school]. Apparently the best way to clean a sponge is to microwave it. This won't get rid of icky sponge stains [mine has blueberry stains, but is otherwise a pleasant SpongeBob yellow], but it will get rid of over 99% of potentially harmful bacteria if microwaved for 2 minutes. You have to make sure that the sponge is not dry or rung out or else it could totally light on fire. Also, refrain from touching the sponge immediately after as it's wicked hot. I did the cleaning in two one-minute bursts as I was afraid of fire [and armed with a fire extinguisher], but our microwave is pretty crummy. It provided our kitchen with a rather interesting odour [not entirely unpleasant - just strange - it will not be a Febreeze scent anytime soon I don't think].