Can we talk about the 'freeze your sponge' cleaning hack?

I saw a video saying to freeze your kitchen sponge overnight to kill germs. I tried it for a week. The sponge felt cold and damp in the morning, but after three days it started smelling worse than before. I think the cold just paused the germs, and they came back faster once it thawed. Some people swear by it, but others say microwaving it wet for a minute is better. Has anyone else tested both methods and got real results?

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knight.mason7d ago

Yeah, the thawing just wakes the germs back up, same thing happened to me.

blair2487d ago

That's a solid point from @knight.mason about thawing waking things up. It makes you wonder if the real problem is how we store stuff before it even hits the freezer. A lot of germs could already be growing if it sat out too long while cooling down. So the freezer just presses pause on a mess that was already there. Thawing doesn't create the problem, it just lets the old problem pick up where it left off. Proper cooling first might be the step we all skip too often.