So, wow, the couple last months have been something.
First time in literal months I got to sit down and write here.
Currently running the second bleaching on my hair, sitting in my new kitchen in my new flat.
Downtime for a few days, finally.
Feeling good actually.
SO, alongside the AEG oven I purchased in late 2019 I bought the listed AEG dryer.
Actually, a couple of weeks after the oven.
Bought some other stuff since then, but gonna review that first as I am of today looking at getting rid of it.
For what is a suprise.
It has about 120 running hours on it and I have to say that for the price it dries almost as good as a Miele.
Which is something if you ever used a Miele.
So, the Grundig at the old flat was by far a better dryer price per performance.
It dried quick, gentle and thourough.
Just one thing started to bug me: It did only well on pure cottons loads.
My load of socks and T-Shirts either was underdried on cupboard dry or overdried on cupboard dry plus.
My monthly load of synthetics (bathrobe and bathroom rugs) was always damp, no matter which cycle.
And the filter was a pain to clean.
So, I bought the AEG.
It claims improofed drying, a better sensor system, FibrePro technology, was labled rather fast and wasn't priced like the Miele I was looking at.
And what can I say: It is almost perfect.
So, quick bullshit busting:
The improofed sensing system works. How I have no idea. There is no drum pickup, there is no additional sensing hardware as it appears. Just 2 bars as usual.
Cupboard dry on cottons is damp ish. But cupboard dry plus with dryness adjusted up to max works perfectly.
Even the Eco Cottons cycle works surprisingly good.
Now the "FibrePro" part.
Yeah, so I was expecting something amazing.
It just cycles the heatpump with a smart algorhytm.
Don't get me wrong: It works FLAWLESS.
Even the most mixed, patchy loads get perfectly evenly dry. You might have to jump to extra dry on the Mix XL cycle, but even Jeans and TShirts mixed work.
Granted they take like 25% longer then in other dryers, but it works.
I was supecting something weired as the schematics clearly indicated it was still a single speed heatpump - though a different spec from their other A+++ models of series 8 - but a test that actually tested the Mix XL cycle showed longer cycle times than Cottons though lower energy usage.
But the cycling works.
It switches the heatpump off at about half dry for the first time. And then it cycles in varying rhythms with couple minutes in, couple minutes of.
Maybe the whole thing is temperature guided.
Basicly it just allows for moisture to creep from damper items and areas to less damp areas.
The moist air helps with that.
The beddings cycle does not tangle badly.
If you overload it it still tangles of course, and it creases if you load more than 2 sets of twin bedding or more than 1 larger set, but it all gets dry, so.
That cycle cycles the heatpump as well.
Fun fact: The electronics are adaptive which is something I never saw outside Miele.
You know how one cycle always says one time when you start it? No matter the previous conditions, Cottons Eco would always display the same time at start?
Yeah, no, not here.
When it was sitting in the cold halway in the old flat and I would be running my sweaters and jeans load on the Mix XL cycle extra dry, times for ALL cycles would be corrected up by sometimes more then an hour depending on cycle on the next startup.
These adaptations were not stepped from what I could gather, sometimes they were 10min, sometimes some odd 30ish steps.
They would correct down if you ran a more in-line load like towels on the next run or if temperatures got more normal as well.
Interesting for me!
After 50 loads the heat exchanger has minimal lint on it.
Filter is sturdy. It's not loud, certainly less compressor heavy than the Grundig.
Downsides: A lot of plastic.
Even the door glass isn't glass.
Less of a grief since most dryer doors in history have been plastic and so far there is no major scratching visible on the door glass.
And AEGs dryer quality has been questionable.
In the end I just paid over 700€ for it and for like 100€ more than a BSH A+++ dryer I would recomend it highly over those.
More features, better drying, better sensing, no tangeling.
For full price (up to 850€) it would be more of a question since you could get a basic Miele with beddings cycle for that almost.
That would be A++ only though.
So if you got questions, just ask.
First time in literal months I got to sit down and write here.
Currently running the second bleaching on my hair, sitting in my new kitchen in my new flat.
Downtime for a few days, finally.
Feeling good actually.
SO, alongside the AEG oven I purchased in late 2019 I bought the listed AEG dryer.
Actually, a couple of weeks after the oven.
Bought some other stuff since then, but gonna review that first as I am of today looking at getting rid of it.
For what is a suprise.
It has about 120 running hours on it and I have to say that for the price it dries almost as good as a Miele.
Which is something if you ever used a Miele.
So, the Grundig at the old flat was by far a better dryer price per performance.
It dried quick, gentle and thourough.
Just one thing started to bug me: It did only well on pure cottons loads.
My load of socks and T-Shirts either was underdried on cupboard dry or overdried on cupboard dry plus.
My monthly load of synthetics (bathrobe and bathroom rugs) was always damp, no matter which cycle.
And the filter was a pain to clean.
So, I bought the AEG.
It claims improofed drying, a better sensor system, FibrePro technology, was labled rather fast and wasn't priced like the Miele I was looking at.
And what can I say: It is almost perfect.
So, quick bullshit busting:
The improofed sensing system works. How I have no idea. There is no drum pickup, there is no additional sensing hardware as it appears. Just 2 bars as usual.
Cupboard dry on cottons is damp ish. But cupboard dry plus with dryness adjusted up to max works perfectly.
Even the Eco Cottons cycle works surprisingly good.
Now the "FibrePro" part.
Yeah, so I was expecting something amazing.
It just cycles the heatpump with a smart algorhytm.
Don't get me wrong: It works FLAWLESS.
Even the most mixed, patchy loads get perfectly evenly dry. You might have to jump to extra dry on the Mix XL cycle, but even Jeans and TShirts mixed work.
Granted they take like 25% longer then in other dryers, but it works.
I was supecting something weired as the schematics clearly indicated it was still a single speed heatpump - though a different spec from their other A+++ models of series 8 - but a test that actually tested the Mix XL cycle showed longer cycle times than Cottons though lower energy usage.
But the cycling works.
It switches the heatpump off at about half dry for the first time. And then it cycles in varying rhythms with couple minutes in, couple minutes of.
Maybe the whole thing is temperature guided.
Basicly it just allows for moisture to creep from damper items and areas to less damp areas.
The moist air helps with that.
The beddings cycle does not tangle badly.
If you overload it it still tangles of course, and it creases if you load more than 2 sets of twin bedding or more than 1 larger set, but it all gets dry, so.
That cycle cycles the heatpump as well.
Fun fact: The electronics are adaptive which is something I never saw outside Miele.
You know how one cycle always says one time when you start it? No matter the previous conditions, Cottons Eco would always display the same time at start?
Yeah, no, not here.
When it was sitting in the cold halway in the old flat and I would be running my sweaters and jeans load on the Mix XL cycle extra dry, times for ALL cycles would be corrected up by sometimes more then an hour depending on cycle on the next startup.
These adaptations were not stepped from what I could gather, sometimes they were 10min, sometimes some odd 30ish steps.
They would correct down if you ran a more in-line load like towels on the next run or if temperatures got more normal as well.
Interesting for me!
After 50 loads the heat exchanger has minimal lint on it.
Filter is sturdy. It's not loud, certainly less compressor heavy than the Grundig.
Downsides: A lot of plastic.
Even the door glass isn't glass.
Less of a grief since most dryer doors in history have been plastic and so far there is no major scratching visible on the door glass.
And AEGs dryer quality has been questionable.
In the end I just paid over 700€ for it and for like 100€ more than a BSH A+++ dryer I would recomend it highly over those.
More features, better drying, better sensing, no tangeling.
For full price (up to 850€) it would be more of a question since you could get a basic Miele with beddings cycle for that almost.
That would be A++ only though.
So if you got questions, just ask.
