Quite a lot cheaper than chips (Tesco Value Sponge Pan Cleaners)

Member Name: worst_trip

Product:	Tesco Value Sponge Pan Cleaners
Date:	14/10/09 (21 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Value sponge and scouring action at less than 4p per unit!

Disadvantages: A bit too easily-disposable, possibly

They are not particularly spongy, Tesco Value Sponge Pan Cleaners, and the plastic abrasive 'pan cleaning' side isn't, in all honesty, up to all that much.

Neither of these features really counts as Tesco Value Sponge Pan Cleaner's unique selling point however. Can there be anyone who buys these for any reason other than they only cost 17p (seventeen PENCE!) for a packet of five?

What can you get for 17 pence theses days? Not even a small selection of loose penny-sweeties from the newsagents', recent experience would suggest.

No, Tesco Value Sponge Cleaners are so cheap as to be effectively disposable. I use mine mainly in the bathroom, for cleaning the sink and sometimes the toilet - after which - I simply throw the used one away!

(I know, I know. These days it's neither big nor clever to be throwing away singly-used non-biodegradable plastic by-products of the petrochemical industry but honestly. If it's been down my toilet even once, let alone scouring all around the rim, I'm just not that interested in laying hands on it ever again.)

I also quite regularly use these with an excellent product called 'Soapy Wood Wash' for - well, washing down wood and furniture. While the spongy side is just absorbant enough to be of use in soapy wood-washing down the varnished / 'good' side of woodwork, the abrasive side is excellent for use on the insides of drawers etc. - ie. untreated wood. Being slightly abrasive, that side does tend to pick up small splinters however - which again, is where the high-level disposability of these scourers comes into its own. Once they're full of wood bits, they can simply be discarded. (But at what cost to the environment? You'll just have to square that with your own conscience as I have done, I'm afraid).

I always take a couple of new ones of these on holiday as well - they're really good for small-scale dish-washing (eg after a 'picnic' dinner - yes, after years spent unsatisfactorily trying to eat off of tourist brochures, plastic bags, etc., I do now even take along a small selection of my own plastic plates as well) and the scouring action means that even if you've had to resort to washing your crockery in the bathroom sink in shower gel, it does gets the grease off. (Also the continental version of Tesco Value Sponge Scourers if you buy them abroad is something called a 'tampette' - and do you really want to have anything called a 'tampette' rubbed all over a surface you're going to later eat off? Well I thought not. Enough said.)

Summary: Great value product