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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It would clean it temporarily however you would weaken the structural integrity of the sponge by boiling it causing it to rapidly deteriorate.

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