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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which is awesome. Because like the washing machine removes EVERYTHING.

Food? Gone. Cat hairball? Poof. Baby's diaper explosion? Like it never happened.

I think it only really matters if you're an organized freak who even folds their clothes after doing the laundry. The clean clothes aren't gonna get dirty sitting in the clean clothes basket.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

My clothes live on the drying rack and the "not quite dirty yet" chair.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Do your colors on cold, do your whites on hot, your colors will last longer and your whites won't get so fucking dingy looking. It's not about bleed, it's about taking care of your clothes so they last a while.

[–] morto@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

By reading the comments, TIL that some people wash clothes with warm water. I have never even seen a washing machine that warms water.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

Where do you even live?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

They don't usually have heating elements, they have hot water hookups and mix the two to achieve a certain temperature.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ours which is at least 30 years old has hot/warm, warm/cold, and cold/cold.

I usually use hot/warm just because it fills faster. It's not warming the water. It's drawing the hot water from the hot water heater. If we use cold cold it will make sure to only draw cold water and it takes awhile. Hot means it just grabs all the water it can.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have never even seen a washing machine that warms water.

For real?

[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same here, Mexico, no washing machine we ever had fiddles with temperature, and warming your water somethere else and then pouring it would be a pain

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't pour water into our washing machines, we hook them up to plumbing (one to the source water from the mains and one from the water heater, plus one output to the sewage or gray water).

[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I see, we don't have water heaters, we had one at some point but it was plugged only to the shower, I don't know if it broke or if it wasn't cost effctive but we stopped using it ever since.

Washing machines do have a hoose to input water btw

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

These days, lots of detergents actually work better in cold water. They contain enzymes for dissolving e.g. blood stains, and those enzymes are typically proteins, which fall apart when heated too much. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe (most?) proteins fall apart around 42°C. This might be simplifying far too much.

But yeah, basically you want to generally wash at 30°C.

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