On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:13:33 -0500, Sky >
wrote:

>Four minutes seems to be on the extreme side of hot to me (in the
>nuker!).

Thanks all for your suggestions. Since I don't buy "bleach", I
decided to try the microwave oven. Two minutes seems to be the
magic number for time. This morning the "dish cloth", i.e. counter
rag, didn't have a single whiff of odor. I don't wash dishes...and
that is why I had two Bosch dishwashers installed on either side of
the sink in the new house.

I did chuckle when taking the cloth out of the microwave oven
though...held it in the air with tongs and though of Larry "Bud"
Melman handing out hot towels from the Letterman show years ago. Too
bad he died...Larry "Bud" was funny.