Originally Posted by PatriceJ

i bought one of those fancy shmancy mat smoothers. it's like a super-fine grit sharpening stone.

it isn't that it doesn't work. but i didn't think it worked any better than the plastic net pot scrubbers you can buy at the dollar store. or one of the green scrubby pads.

i'd try one of those before spending the money on the "official" tool.