Re: new towels smell-help please


"Phaedrine" <Phaedrine.Stonebridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kate Dicey <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

enigma wrote:

Kate Dicey <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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CHI-MUM wrote:

Just how do you do this???

Chuck them in the washing machine and set it to the boil
wash program. I thought they all did this. I've never had
one that didn't.

no American washer does this. i did see an import front
loader at Home Depot with a boil wash. it's not one of the
higher end of that company (which i totally forget the name of
right now), but it's the first boil wash i've ever seen in the
US.

How strange... You'd never sell one here that *didn't* have a boil
wash! Mine's hot and cold fill, too, so it fills quicker and uses gas
heated water for most programs, thus being cheaper to run on hotter
programs.

I don't use the really hot programs often, but being able to chuck
baby-grunged things, fabric for shrinking, and all white cottons &
linens like towels, table cloths, and calico yardage in and cook it is
great. This rather basic washer runs at 'min' (whatever THAT is!), 30,
45, 60, 70, and 95 degrees C (which is the 'boil wash' temp).

Well isn't this just a huge discovery!!! Here in the increasingly
"primitive" colonies, the trend is to COLD wash everything. Almost
every cloth thing you buy says not to wash it in hot water. And all the
detergents brag about working just as well in cold water. Yeah
sure...... when donkeys fly! For those of us with dust mite allergy,
the cold water thing is utterly stupid of course. I've never seen a
washer that heated its own water--- though my Maytag is at least 15
years old now. Egad, I am really out of it! Dishwashers do that
commonly however.

And now, the washing machines they are trying to sell here are
front-loaders to replace the mainly top-loaders we've used in the past.
They are calling them high capacity washers that use less water.
Someone please explain that to me.... how you can wash more clothes in
less water and not have everything come out smelly. I really want to
understand this.

Here in the States, instead of doing meaningful water conservation like
not so much airborne irrigation or less asphalt or less lawn-watering,
they always push it off on the American homemaker in the form of often
hairbrained mechanisms like some of these new washing machines or water
faucets with limited output. Oh yeah... now there a good one that just
torques me. So instead of filling your tea kettle in a few seconds, you
have to stand there at the sink and wait forever for the water to
dribble out or, an even better example, there's not enough water coming
out of the showerhead to rinse your hair properly. People here are now
compensating for the latter problem by installing the antithesis of
conservation---multiple showerheads in their showers!!! Sorry.....
this is just one of those subjects that just really grates on my
sensibilities. They think we have naught to do with our time than stand
in front of faucets and wait for an "attenuated flow" faucet. AGH!
What noodlehead came up with that idea? Prolly the same squinty-eyed
lobcocks who came up with the idea of stiletto heels. Sorry... just had
to get this off my chest! I feel so much better now. (:>)

Thank the Light I have a husband that knows how to remedy those kinds of
problems.

Phae

--
I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI,
Shakespeare)

It's that way in Canada too, but I'm energy conscious anyway, so the
frontloader works for me. I do all the rest of my washing in cold water,
so a small load in a front loader at high temp won't kill anyone.

I'd love to go all Solar if I could. It's just too prohibitive.

I have a 10 yr old Mobile, new to us. The water pressure is so great
here. I love a thundering shower!


Helen


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