But there’s no need to toss it in the trash—just follow these easy steps to clean your sponge. Before you run your dishwasher, throw your sponge in there with the dishes. Just give it a quick ...

How to clean and sanitize the sponge. Bolton says it’s essential to clean and sanitize your sponge regularly, ideally every day. You can do that through either heat or chemical means.

You wipe your kitchen sponge all over the grossest things in your sink, so it makes sense that it would accumulate some pretty gross bacteria. But is it possible to clean or sanitize that sponge?

Ever since the invention of the sponge — that magical tool for cleaning dishes, pots and surfaces — humans have grappled with a paradox: How to clean a sponge itself? On a recent episode of ...