Favorite Dryer

Chetlaham · 2025-06-27T05:09:52-0500

What is everyones favorite dryer?

My all time favorite dryer is the GE GE DDE5300BAL and most 1970 onward 29 inch top filter Whirlpool dryers with a 120 minute timed dry.

Minus the electric heat source being behind the drum on the GE dryers; these dryers dried fast, lasted forever, sounded soothing, quiet, simple, easy to fix and provided excellent garment care when the thermostat was replaced with a medium 135-140*F cycling stat. I miss them very much.

adam-aussie-vac · 2025-06-27T06:20:22-0500

Honestly I have two favourite dryers, one is my Australian made Westinghouse (Malleys made under license) dryer and My Simpson infrared dryer, surprisingly both take roughly the same amount of time to Dry a load of laundry, even though the Simpson does use double the the Westinghouse does as the Simpson uses two elements, while the Westinghouse only has one

pierreandreply4 · 2025-06-27T08:26:13-0500

1972 inglis dryer with matching dryer would be my fav dryer

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vacerator · 2025-06-27T08:32:14-0500

Whirlpool. I don't like working on GE's. My dad didn't either.

maytag85 · 2025-06-27T10:29:06-0500

Pre 1966 Whirlpool 29” top filter dryers and Maytag HOH’s.

Some people might argue about how the older Whirlpool 29” dryers were slower with the design of the bulkhead behind behind the drum perforations and while that is true if you were to jam them full, but since it doesn’t have that lint screen plenum which can get choked down with lint (think of it as a bottleneck that gets narrower with time, especially drying things that generate a lot of lint), will run for awhile without getting choked down with lint which will slow down the drying time substantially. Also like how the baffles are stamped into the drum and is more of a speed bump type of shape which is for sure gentler on certain types of items, definitely can tell it’s more gentle since there’s not much lint on the lint screen afterwards.

The other is the Maytag HOH, seems to dry certain types of loads fairly quickly since they are always in the air stream, definitely drys blankets and bedding to completion even when jammed full. Though HOH’s aren’t the fastest dryers in the world, definitely more than make up for it in terms of quietness when they are tuned up properly.

Chetlaham · 2025-06-27T11:09:12-0500

Adam, way cool! How does that infared dryer work and how many watts is the heater? Your limited to 20 amps at 230 volts, correct?

thatwasherguy · 2025-06-27T11:18:00-0500

My personal favorite is the Maytag Halo of Heat. That’s what we had when I was a kid, so I have a lot of fond memories attached to them. My second favorite would have to be the Maytag Stream of Heat design. Third would be the 1966 to 1990’s Whirlpool built top filter models.
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cfz2882 · 2025-06-27T13:05:36-0500

whirlpool around 1957:lots of belts and pulleys behind and a Packard motor running the whole thing

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