Tough on grime, touch on your hands too! (Spontex Tough Scourers)

Member Name: thehonesttruth

Product:	Spontex Tough Scourers
Date:	25/09/09 (25 review reads)
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I love cooking from scratch - cookies, casseroles, massive pans of soup . As you can imagine, this often means I have rather a lot of surfaces and pots and pans to wash , some of which can be tricky especially if food is burnt on .

I picked up a pack of four of these for £1.65 from Sainsburys, intent on tackling a particularly tricky glass casserole dish that had gotten quite a lot of burnt on gravy over it, that my normal sponge was having trouble shifting . These are heavy duty metal scourers made from rust free stainless steel .

When using these on my casserole dish, I found them rather rough on my hands, so resorted to using gloves with these . With the addition of a little washing up liquid they shifted the stubborn burnt on gravy quickly and easily , cutting right through it . When I rinsed the dish under the tap, it came up sparkling and looking like new .

However, when I rinsed out the scourer, bits of food got stuck in the mesh - which I don't like, as it means the scourer is essentially staying dirty. There wasn't really any way to get the food out of the scourer, so I decided to use it a few more times that day to get some good cleaning done, and then bin it (I hated the idea of that food going off in it and starting to smell). So, I wondered about with it, and used it to get my taps sparking and clean, my draining board shining, and even to get the dried on egg that some neighbourhood chav had thrown at my window off .

Now, being as these are metal scourers, you can't use them on non-stick pans, plastic bathroom suites, enamel or any other delicate surfaces, and this is all printed on the packet so you won't forget.

It's a little inconvenient to have to throw it away after use because I can't get the stuck in food out, and although this is probably just down to my obsessiveness about things going off and smelling, I'm going to deduct one star for this . I also feel they are a little expensive, so another star off for that .

Overall, three stars - they do the job they are meant to do, and they do it well, I just can't help thinking I could find a similar product cheaper .

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