Realizing the image is a bit scroungy looking (and there's no sense in trying to dress it up), I nonetheless deem my net dish scrubby one of my favorite things.
I first learned of washing dishes with a net scrubby a couple of decades ago, when we lived in Illinois, and a friend who was also a transplant to that state received a fresh scrubby from her mama back home in Georgia. Now hers was significantly more elaborate than what you see here, and I studied and mimicked hers at the time and for a time. But over the years I've discovered my personal preference is to just cut a hank of net and put it to work as-is. You can see it doesn't appear very deliberate in this form, and you wouldn't want to wrap it up and give it as a gift. Yet, I like the free-form feel in my hand and the ability to truly stretch that thing out for rinsing, so no food particles are left in it as an unsavory presence, or worse, a contamination threat. (← I added that contamination part for Little Loo, who curls her lip every time I offer her a scrubby: "NO!")
My dish scrubby makes me so happy♥, and at something around 75¢/yard, when it eventually seems a bit on the limpish side, I can fairly economically toss it away and cut another hank. Last summer, I bought quite a stretch of net to shield my strawberry plants from the birds, but my strawberries croaked...as naturally they would in my care. See how thoughtful I was, buying green, so it wouldn't be an outdoor eyesore? Who knew that net would become grass green scrubbies in a non-grass-green kitchen? For five or six years.
Favorite thing (despite being grass green) — Net Scrubby
I first learned of washing dishes with a net scrubby a couple of decades ago, when we lived in Illinois, and a friend who was also a transplant to that state received a fresh scrubby from her mama back home in Georgia. Now hers was significantly more elaborate than what you see here, and I studied and mimicked hers at the time and for a time. But over the years I've discovered my personal preference is to just cut a hank of net and put it to work as-is. You can see it doesn't appear very deliberate in this form, and you wouldn't want to wrap it up and give it as a gift. Yet, I like the free-form feel in my hand and the ability to truly stretch that thing out for rinsing, so no food particles are left in it as an unsavory presence, or worse, a contamination threat. (← I added that contamination part for Little Loo, who curls her lip every time I offer her a scrubby: "NO!")
My dish scrubby makes me so happy♥, and at something around 75¢/yard, when it eventually seems a bit on the limpish side, I can fairly economically toss it away and cut another hank. Last summer, I bought quite a stretch of net to shield my strawberry plants from the birds, but my strawberries croaked...as naturally they would in my care. See how thoughtful I was, buying green, so it wouldn't be an outdoor eyesore? Who knew that net would become grass green scrubbies in a non-grass-green kitchen? For five or six years.
Favorite thing (despite being grass green) — Net Scrubby
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