I have a “15 minute wash” setting on my washing machine. I needed a pair of clean underwear once while already running late for a party, and figured “fuck it, 15 minutes is better than dirty underwear”. After 15 minutes it was down to 20 minutes left…
Was your plan to show up wearing soggy underwear?
Have you never considered putting your underwear on a stick and holding it out the window as you drive?
Dries underwear super fast!
Never mind the bugs and road grime that might get caught in it.
Benefits of having an old car with a full aerial.
Ah, I usually just stick my butt out the window for that. Using a stick sounds a lot more practical, tbh. Especially as the driver
The plan was to use a hairdryer to dry them. Which worked perfectly! About 40 minutes later…
Clean soggy is better than dirty soggy
What a chafing comment!
Genuine answer:
I’m pretty sure most modern dryers have their onboard “computer” and moisture sensor check and re-evaluate once at about ~10 minutes left on the cycle to see if they need additional time.
My model has a more dry/damp dry option.
My dryer also has this but is really really bad about judging blankets for some reason and will quit after like 10 minutes of running total, I only use timed dry with blankets anymore.
That’s because blankets are bulky, so they wind up into a ball and the core stays damp while the outside dries.
What you can to is pull it out and shove it back in in a different way so that the wet part is facing outward. Then run it again. It shouldn’t take as long because most of the moisture is already gone. Do a third run if you have to, but that should get it bone dry.
And remember to clean your lint trap each time! Blankets drop a lot of lint, and the machine dries faster if the lint trap is clear.
If you have a quilt or something with multiple layers or insulation on the inside, sometimes there can be residual moisture you can’t feel from the outside. So either hang it up or lay it out flat and run a fan across it and/or a dehumidifier in the room, and let it air out like that for a couple hours/overnight.
Mine too!
Usually because the sheets ball up and all the moisture gets trapped inside the blanket-ball.
Then when we open it up, we feel where the inside is still all wet. So annoying.
My dryer is just a knob that counts down. If it’s not done, you turn the knob back further and it just goes longer. Guess you could overcook the clothes that way but oh well. They will survive the gauntlet.
Yep, me too. I’ll never buy a modern dryer until they work their way down to FB Marketplace and that’s all I can get.
Dryer: I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.
Moisture sensor + some estimates.
Works well in the recent driers but not so much 10 years ago.
Go to the laundromat and replace “minutes” with “dollars”. I once left after spending over $10 on one load that was only half dry.
here the guy that owns the only laundry in town discovered that if he blocks-off the air intakes for the dryers he can make more money. takes two hours vs 10-20 minutes before (tshirts and light synthetics vs towels and jeans). coupled with his jacking-up the costs when he bought the place… what used to take 25c four years ago to dry, now takes four fucking dollars or more. the old lady that cleans the place says he almost burned the place down more than once because of that, but he don’t give a shit.
My dryer is always bang-on because I use the time-dry feature. 40 minutes means 40 minutes. The washer on the other hand…
Using a friend’s “smart dryer” that had some sort of moisture sensor was a frustrating experience. It felt like it held my clothes prisoner.
Time to clean the vents so the airflow can flow out to dry the clothes.
The washing machine here shows 52 minutes when you start it. It’s out of earshot, so I set a timer on my phone for when to get my clothes. My timer runs for 1 hour 8 minutes and I’m usually still a bit early…
Sometimes I’m really glad I use the laundry room in my building so the washes I’m doing all finish at the same time on their simple timers, and the dryer gives me exactly one hour.
