Normally the Scotch Brite Heavy Duty Sponge works like a champ. Our family has been buying them for a few years now. They can clean most anything with our damaging the surface of the cleaned area. I even like to use them on my firearms to remove rust. Unfortunately, we hit a little snag with our last 3 pack. the sponges would not stay together. They just started to crumble while we were washing dishes. The sponges were not a week old form the store and had not been used yet. This event is what forces me to downgrade my score.

How do you review a dish sponge? Here goes, I used this dish sponge with soap. I rubbed it around on my dishes and it worked like any other dish sponge, it grabbed the stuck on food particles and ripped it away from the dish. I'm not even sure if it was my top of the line elbow grease - or this yellow dish sponge.

I use this product...Oh do I ever use this product! In a nutshell,I love to cook. However, I don't always cook things that are easy cleanup. Some of my favorite things to cook are slow roasted or made in a pan on the stove producing hours of crusty build up to be cleaned later. I have made the mistake of buying brands other than Scotch-Brite Sponge and Scrubbing Sponges. I find that the Green Scrubby Layer comes loose almost imediately, resulting in it comming completely off by the second scrubbing. I don't have to worry about this at all with my hard working heavy duty helpers from Scotch-Brite! They hold up despite the torture that I put them thru! I love them!

ever since i can remember, my mom has always used scotch brite heavy duty sponges. it's a product that i have used all my life and now i have my children using it too. it's a quality product that delivers exceptional results each & every time it is used!!!

I have tried many different brands of sponges and I keep coming back to the Scotch Brite Heavy Duty Scrub Sponge because it is the most durable and it gets my pots clean without too much scrubbing. This sponge lasts longer than any other I have ever used. Thanks so much for making a sponge all of us hard working homemakers can appreciate!

I bought 6 pack of these with 3 scour pads this winter. I have used these also in the past but do not remember the horrible chemical smell that these new sponges have. I loaded it up with dish detergent and it still smells something like bleach or disinfectant.In fact it is so strong that that chemical smell gets into the skin on my hands and I can smell it for a long time afterward. I don't know if these were over treated at the factory or if this is just the way they are made now but it is nasty and takes quite awhile to get rid of that odor. After being a fan of the quality of 3M products in the past I will move on to something else. Our grocery store offers some other brands that I have used in the past and they don't have these chemicals in them. It is too bad because otherwise I like the quality but not if it is the expense of exposing myself to such a bad chemical - makes me sneeze too.

This is one of those products for which I believe there is no substitute. Nothing even comes close. I have a touch of arthritis and have found that I don't need to apply as much pressure as with some other brands to get the same results. An added bonus is that because they do a better job cleaning the caked and burnt on food I find that I can use less dish detergent. I would never buy another brand.

I've been using scotch-brite scrubbers for longer than I can remember and the generic version is definitely no substitute. They seem to last a lot longer when you run them through the dishwasher or wet thoroughly (never dry) and put in the micro-wave for 4 min. I highly recommend them.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The scratchy side of the sponge works great on things like my sink, the bottoms of pans, and other things that won't let bits of food get stuck in the scrubby green mesh. I don't like food to get stuck, so I don't use it on pans that have food stuck to them, but that's just me. I like that it doesn't scratch my porcelain sink, or the bottoms of pans. Disclosure: I was sent this sponge in order to get my honest opinion about it.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is the brand I always buy. Great value for the product. Works well on a variety of messes. Like that I can reuse it, it holds up really well. I signed up to evalute products for 3M and they sent me this sponge free to review.