Just Plain Nasty

What is more disgusting than the kitchen sponge at work? NOTHING! I've actually seen a co-worker wiping down the counter with this bad boy. I find myself being the sponge police by sneaking into the breakroom and tossing out the sponge. Somehow someone manages to find another one and a new breed of germs is born. Mythbusters did a show on hidden nasties. See the results below. No surprise!




Mythbusters Episode 136: Hidden Nasties

Many objects that people touch every day are dirtier than a toilet seat. CONFIRMED

Adam and Jamie chose a total of 8 objects to test for cleanliness: toilet seat, money, kitchen sponge, hotel room remote, computer keyboard, light switch, cell phone, and shopping cart. They swabbed each surface for 10 seconds and created Petri dishes from the swabs that incubated overnight. Their first method of measurement was to count the number of microorganism colonies on each dish. They found that the toilet seat sample actually had the fewest colonies, while the kitchen sponge sample had more than they could count:
* kitchen sponge (most colonies)
* money
* light switch
* computer keyboard
* hotel remote
* shopping cart
* cell phone
* toilet seat (fewest colonies)