And here’s the thing: the “convenience” of the disposable pads doesn’t save time. The scent of the cleaning fluid elicited universal disgust-rotten apples, skunked cider, and green-apple Jolly Rancher. The incredibly flimsy handle doesn’t let you scrub with any vigor on sticky messes and dried-on food. The dry pads have the weight of toilet paper, and can barely absorb a tablespoon of liquid. The wet pads start out saturated and can’t be wrung out, so they are physically incapable of wiping up spills and in fact leave streaks of cleaning fluid behind. It’s a dust mop that also comes with three disposable presoaked mop pads. The Swiffer Sweeper Cleaner Dry and Wet Mop is not a wet mop, despite what Swiffer says. ![]() The Mopnado has a fold-out pull handle that’s so short you have to bend over halfway and crab-walk when you use it. (Squirting detergent from the bottle is much easier.) The Casabella has a silly drain plug, a tiny drawer whose purpose is unclear (replacement mopheads don’t fit in it). Each has a tiny soap dispenser that’s fussy to refill, and in the Mopnado’s case incredibly fussy to remove for refilling. Both buckets also feature unnecessary gizmos. ![]() And unlike the O-Cedar, their wringers can’t be removed, meaning they’re single-purpose tools that take up a ton of valuable closet space (they’re so big they cannot fit easily under most sinks). Yet because they can barely be filled halfway (the wringer, which obviously has to stay above water, takes up the top half of the bucket), they actually hold less water than the O-Cedar, meaning more-frequent refills. The Mopnado has the biggest bucket we tested (20 by 13 by 11½ inches, 5.1 pounds), and the Casabella the next largest (19 by 11½ by 11 inches, 4.6 pounds) compare these numbers with the O-Cedar bucket’s (14 by 10 by 11 inches, 1.4 pounds).
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