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Welcome Jed! Welcome to the world-wide washer's heaven on-line, Jed! Wishing you tons of heavy soiled, bad smelling whites to be done and changed into tons of snow-white, lovely smelling, shiny whites - throughout your life! And endless hours of listneing to the lovely sound of a running...

Yay!!! Das geht runter wie Öl!!!! (that goes down like oil) I nearly was on the way to loose my faith in top-loaders as all the world tells they are rubbish....poooh!!! Nevertheless I'd not given up my washing in twin-tub washers, single-tub washers and american top-loaders - NEVER!! Bye the...

far too expensive for me!! Ralf

Rich and Keven No, Rich, they were absolutely not dismissive but thought first I'd lived once in America for a while because of my accent...lol The strangest thing happened to me was the year after that holiday/exchange-time in Mexico, when I came back from a back-packer trip throughout Europe...

...and concerning the "church(es)" I can only really, really recommend the book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. It's absolutely fascinating! READ IT!! Ralf

Same to me! I learnt Spanish during six weeks in Mexico, visiting pen-pals in Mexico-City in 1980. When I went to Spain for two years for job reasons in 1999-2000, I had big problems to understand the Castillian tongue, especially the one in Andalusia, where I lived. Mexican Spanish (and...

There MUST be a way to save this place - it is a huge part of American history - and not only American as the washing technique influenced Europe as well!! Ralf

catholic confession I once WAS catholic, too (or shouldn't I better say, I was brougth up the (foolish) catholic way), so I know this procedure quite well! (grinning) I remember that nuissance of the weekly confession procedure - did it twice or so when I was about 11 or 12 but never went again...

Wooohoo great!!!!!

Soap Making Hi to all of you! Well...I used to make my own soap for years and therefor have about five or six books, most of them from the States, as there are not many good books available here in Germany anymore on the market nowadays! But stopped that because of our small place here, but...

Lee Maxwell ...to me is the KING of WASHING-MACHINES! I've been to that site quite often - it's like a fairy-tale from washer-land...the heaven of laudry! He could be my ideal but I'm miles behind him... I hope I shall find my way to him one day...! Ralf

bar soap and soda Except in the dishwasher, of course, I use also only soda and, for fatty items, added grated bar-soap for washing up items that cannot go into the dishwasher for any reason! I don't like dishwashing-liquid at all! Ralf

OMG Hi Keven! Just found the time to answer... Well, as Bavaria isn't Germany but Bavaria, actually....lol! And Ostfriesland is something absolutely special...(I'm glad to live in NRW - Northrhine-Westphalia! lol) I can't believe sometimes the stupidity of people.... But I'm catching up, as I'm...

oooppss.... I really can't believe this thread....lol Ralf

Thanx! Thanx as well from over the big pond right out of the middle of Europe - Germany - as well from me and spend a lovely New Years Eve as well as all of you here, too!! See you next year! Ralf

That's nice! Even though I do not get all jokes... Never heard of them (Hinge & Bracket) - but I'm sure this kind of humour is something we like here in Germany as well! Did you get my mail? Ralf

panthera & tomturbomatic Keven, it's not grease, it's a surfactant - usually a quarterny ammonia compound. But we normally do not use conditioner either - I do not like that chemical stuff on freshly laundered items! You are right to me about the possiblility to get residues out of garments by...

Hi state-line OK, here's the answer! The thing is actually, that only thinning a solution can "rinse" it out. Will say that rinsing isn't anything but an endless thinning of a solution, in this case detergent (= tensides/surfactants) in water called wash-water or suds. Now we have different...

Correction Well, ok, that is really not nice from MIELE, not to sell the big machines here in Germany.....but I do not care - if a MIELE than only an old wringer-washer anyway...lol! The 3/4 filling of the drum should be a 5,5 kg load! It means just that the drum, when laundry is pressed...

Miele Well, that is a normal German Miele washing-machine, just adjusted to the US standards (hot & cold water inlet / 110-120 V / 60 Hz). These machines cost here in Germany about 1,500.- € wich is almost 2,000.- $, so nothing unusual! But Miele offers big machines too! I've seen them in N.Y...