Scrub Daddy
🧽 Apparently the kids already knew about this one
I ordered a Scrub Daddy off Amazon last month on a whim. Bright yellow, smiley face, looked fun. It showed up, I set it next to the sink, and didn't think much of it.
Then both my kids, separately, and each said the exact same thing: "Oh, you got a Scrub Daddy."
Like I had finally caught up to a meme everyone else was already in on. My son explained he'd watched the Shark Tank episode about it. Apparently it's the most successful product in Shark Tank history. I had no idea. I'm the guy who writes a newsletter about products and my middle schooler is briefing me on the consumer goods landscape.
A few years back I wrote about the EuroScrubby, which is still in our sink rotation alongside a Scotch-Brite and a chain mail sponge for the cast iron. So I'm a sponge guy. I have opinions.
The Scrub Daddy earns it. The polymer is firm in cold water for tough scrubbing and soft in warm water for gentler stuff. The smiley face slot fits over your fingers, which sounds like a gimmick until you're using it to clean the inside of a glass and realize it's not.
The other thing I love: you can throw it on the top rack of the dishwasher or zap it in the microwave to sanitize, and it dries out completely between uses. No funky moldy sponge smell, which is the thing that makes me throw a regular sponge away after two weeks.
Worth the few bucks. Also worth the small humility of being out-shopped by a 15-year-old.
Enjoy!
I like them too. Mine wore out after about 9 months of daily use and just bought a new one a couple days ago.
Discovered these a few years ago. To be honest, I don't use the traditional form factor much, but I love the brand. It has replaced all my old kitchen sponges and my grill cleaner. They make a traditional form factor kitchen sponge with the same material as the ones on you post on one side and a denser sponge on the other (which is softer and holds soap well). They make a scour pad with sponge inside and a plastic non-marring surface outside which works great for more stuck-on gunk. There's also a sponge with metal on it, which replaces those little steel bundles. All of them are top rack safe in the dishwasher and last far longer than any sponge I used to have. They also make better magic eraser type scrubbers in large and small sizes and have sheet versions (which are also kind of revolutionary). And the grill brush works better and is safer than any brush I've had before. And there's this damp duster thing which works shockingly well.
TLDR, can't say enough good things about the brand, try their other products, I like them even more than the original.