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I think the main idea here, which is also Mendelson's complaint in her Home Comforts book, is that labels *used* to be the harshest safe cleaning process for the garment, thus t-shirts, towels, jeans etc used to just say "machine wash and dry" or even "machine wash hot, tumble dry hot" and that...

Launderess: Yup, agree with what you said. The reason I was startled though, is that we've seen our share of "crusty" tubs here when people post pictures of restoring machines. Also, pictures elsewhere in the web. Most of them show what I expect, which is the part with the most mineral buildup...

Alex: Those are two neat rooms, I'll say. Pictures I've seen of other shared laundries are often much less neat -- I'm not referring to the how messy and/or clean the rooms are, it just looks like those two look like they were designed from the start to accommodate the users, instead of "oops...

Another thought when it comes to portable dishwashers -- they are so expensive that it's often cheaper and in any case more satisfying to get a regular high-end dishwasher you like and make your own portable machine. IKEA, for example, used to sell a cabinet just for that, you'd convert any...

Nice job, thanks for the pictures! I wonder if anyone did all the math to see if it's cheaper to fix the machines every 3 years or so or use a higher quality detergent (or even just *measure* properly the detergent they use, perhaps they are using too much instead of too little?). It's also...

Wow, that's a surprise to me -- Purex Crystals, when I bought some years ago, were sold as an in-wash fabric softener, not just a scent booster. They did kinda soften the fabrics, much in the same way that fabric washed in Bold felt softer than fabric washed in just detergent would. I guess...

I was going to say exactly what Pete said. I bought Downy Unstoppables a few years ago because, (a) let's face it, I'm curious about laundry stuff, (b) because I wanted to get P&G etc the idea that their *best* bet is to sell only *one* kind of laundry detergent, which is unscented, and let us...

More stains showing up *after* a boil wash Well, that brings back memories, LOL! I've seen that happening a lot when friends and family, who, BTW, claimed to be happy with their laundry routines and with how white their clothes were, for one reason or another put a load in the washer for a...

Ben would probably say he warned us (and Eugene) about the pods... :-P Eugene, my best wishes that everything goes well and you live a very happy life in the new digs!

Nice! Enjoy them in good health!

Nice! I hope it is easy to put back to working conditions and you enjoy it in good health!

Excuse me for asking a weird question here, but I don't want several years down the road Eugene blaming me for not asking it. Is it possible, if you don't care too much about appearances, to just bring your Maytag set with you and stack them rotated? That is, the set is supposedly narrower (27...

"I thought Whirlpool had taken legal action against LG because Whirlpool had the Filter Stream washing in their combos." Well, if they did, I'm not sure what to say, but it doesn't put them under a good light, as theater folks would say... ;-) To begin with, WP's patent expired eons ago, and...

Well, that was interesting, but how much does that phonebook weigh? Because even machines people used to call trash can apparently spin a ball filled with a gallon of water (a bit over 8 lbs) just fine. If I remember right, the ad for the GE plastic tub 3.2 cu ft in the late 90's they ran a...

Pete, all I can say is that keeping the smooth top that induction ranges use is *much* easier, because the top doesn't get hotter than the pots. We often don't clean after each meal, so after a few days it gets the ugly appearance. At that point, I find it easier to just spray the top with...

Gary, Precisely! Once you get used to just looking at the knob and knowing exactly what power/heat you are getting, it's really annoying to try to cook with gas again and having to look at the flame to know what you'll get (in case someone is wondering what the heck we are talking about, it's...

"1) You need good, solid bottom, stainless steel or cast iron pots and pans. Aluminium, composite and so on will simply not work." Well, it depends on what one prefers. I have an enameled cast iron pot (Le Creuset) that is nice to cook on and great if you *need* stuff to "stick" to make a fond...

I grew up with gas. You get used to the conventional electric ranges (coil or smooth top) very quickly unless you *decide* you are gonna hate it. Yes, changing temperatures takes some time because when you change the power with gas, the flame has almost no inertia to it (it's only the pan and...

OK, I will give you the "bad" news first: the "interface" metal disks were designed to use with the portable cooktops, which tend to be at most 1,800W. An induction range will probably be much more powerful than that. My experience is that the interface disk works rather well, but reacts at...

How about we discuss a bit of the actual data? Here's the problem with the patients that ended up in the "aluminum may cause Alzheimer's" paper -- all the patients had been scanned using a CAT scan, if I remember right. One of the disadvantages of X-rays is that it tends to need a "contrast"...