Looks like you hit some excitement here, or did last week. I need to do this too! 😁

My favorite are Dobie Pads, sorry for shilling a brand, a nice slightly rough nylon jacket around a sponge seems to have the best combination for me. Soft enough not to damage non-stick, rough it’s enough to clean tough spots, seems to last longer than a simple sponge. Buy them by the case

How old was the sponge? We blow through one or two a month.

(We cook more than most, and none of the cookware can go in the dishwasher.)

I cut the metal scourer in the kitchen in half today. It was looking very worn, but the side that had been held most often looked quite new. I cut off the old part and ‘fluffed’ it out a bit and it looked just like a brand new scourer. Fancifully, I pretended I’d discovered a hack in the matrix where I can now have an infinite scourer. Telling you this is bursting my bubble a little. But I might just go into the kitchen later and secretly pretend that that scourer makes me a little bit like Neo.