{"id":874,"date":"2010-05-26T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-11-12T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T20:02:56","slug":"gift-lab-3-joanna-gets-grabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/gift-lab-3-joanna-gets-grabby\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Lab #3: Joanna Gets Grabby"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gift<\/a><\/div>\n

1) Product Name<\/strong>: Grab and Dry Terry Dishtowel Gloves<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Background Research<\/strong>: The day I was tall enough to reach the kitchen sink, my mother made it my responsibility to wash and dry the dishes. Occasionally, I could use a crisp dollar bill to bribe my little sister to dry, but usually it was a one-woman job and one that I loathed. Fast-forward 10 years and even though I now reside with my boyfriend instead of my mother, I’m still the dish girl. Fun (not so much for me) fact — I’ve actually never lived in a house or apartment with a dishwasher.<\/p>\n

3) Hypothesis:<\/strong> I’m making a bet that these dish towel gloves<\/a> will max out after drying 10 items (a mixture of glasses, plates and bowls).<\/p>\n

\"gloves\"<\/a><\/div>\n

4) Experiment:<\/strong> While preparing for a house guest to arrive last Monday, I had to quickly get rid of the heap of dishes sitting around my kitchen. Now, unlike most people, I only have a countertop as wide as a cutting board and therefore have create a designated “dish drying area” by placing a towel over the stovetop. It’s a little lumpy, but it does the job. However, it takes a couple of hours for the dishes to dry and I only had 30 minutes. Behold the bright orange dish drying gloves<\/a>! This time I used the lure of extra Modern Warfare II playing time to bribe my boyfriend to wash so that I could try out the newly acquired cleaning helpers.<\/p>\n

\"washing\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"dry\"<\/a><\/div>\n

5) Results:<\/strong> At first, I was in love. With my little mittens, I could actually keep up with his washing speed! The dishes weren’t as dry as if I had used a towel, but it was good enough for me. Yet, soon enough I realized that while I was removing water, I was actually adding tiny bit of orange material to every dish.<\/p>\n

The gloves lasted until about 10-12 items before they became soaking wet. I tossed them over the sink and in a couple of hours they were dry and ready for more action.<\/p>\n

\"finish\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Conclusion: 1) <\/strong>For optimum results, take the time to wash the gloves before using them. When I used them the second time to dry a sink full of dishes, the pilling was significantly less frequent. 2)<\/strong> Bribery is always the best policy. 3)<\/strong> While the grab and dry gloves are cute (in a blindingly bright, hunting glove kind of way) and pretty fun to wear, nothing beats a dishwasher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PR czar Joanna puts the grab & dry dishtowel gloves to the test. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}