ELi5: Why can’t you boil a sponge to sanitize it?

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Googling repeatedly tells you to just buy a new kitchen sponge, never boil them because it doesn’t work. But why wouldn’t it clean them?

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Not sure if this is helpful, but I have found that the Dutch leave sponges on the windowsill for the sun to disinfect them.

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