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Searching for the Best Kitchen Sponge

We were scrambling eggs without butter or oil in stainless-steel skillets over high heat. The eggs stuck to the pans and made terrible messes. The test cooks working around us kept shaking their heads, no doubt wondering why we hadn’t switched to nonstick pans or tossed pats of butter into the skillets. We just smiled and ignored them.

We wanted those eggs to stick. We’d just started working on a

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