That's what I said earlier, Westwood.  At my favorite store an all-plastic scrubee is easy to find and I use them at home as well as in canoe country.  I don't think they keep any food residue on them if you rinse well, and I don't worry about packing them away wet.

I am not sure I would boil it, but I rinse it with boiling hot water when I rinse the dishes and call that good.

We have never gotten sick on a canoe trip.  We do filter our water.  When Spartan1 became immune suppressed (after the kidney transplant) I feared that the nephrologist would say "no canoe trips" but all she said was "use a water filter".  We were fortunate to have a nephrologist who actually had been to the BWCA--how lucky is that??   

(Oh, yes!  I MUST have dry TP!  But I think that was another subject and sort of OT of this thread.)

I use a scrubee which doesn't have any sponge component.  I think the sponge is where the bacteria really thrive.  An all plastic scrubbee is hard to find, but I finally found some at Cub Grocery Store.

Plus as mentioned, earlier, just boil the scrubbee and that will kill all the bacteria.

Westwood

Drifting daydreams of the soft water season to come. The boy is laughing in my mind "dried veggies daddy" and shaking his noggin running away!

Puckster wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 3:09pm:


So, pretend we're all sittin' around a campfire after a good day of fishing.  Slight breeze, no clouds, a good drink or three, and the discussion turns to TP and all things anal.  Then prouby remarks...if you get my drift....

I pause, smell something...something really nasty...Geez, prouby!!  We all move upwind...        

marlin55388 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 1:38pm:


This whole thread is anal, if you get my drift.

prouboy

True enough; a call for clarity....it is what I do for the extra rolls and then once opened then into the biff bag which is a ziplock in a stuff sack with a bottle of handle sanitizer. 

We squeeze the Charmin into a gallon zip bag, which also keeps it dry. With vacuum seal, once you open it, it's open, unless you put it into another bag...

It was my notion to keep it dry and cut the bulk...dry TP keeps the ladies happy. I never thought keeping the ladies happy was anal, but I do know it is smart. I have also considered stringing  a small silnylon fly over the GB for those rain days...when Mamas happy everyone's happy. Just Sayin'

marlin55388 wrote on Jan 20^th, 2011 at 5:43pm:


Vacuum packed TP. The very definition of anal...

Yeah, I'm going to hell. 

Rotting my gut drinking too much coffee, breaking my back with too much shoveling snow, and softening my brain with too much American Idol, for god's sake.  (Actually, that show makes me laugh, which extends one's life I've read, so I guess that's good thing.) 

prouboy