Little Greys
How far we've come .....-er, regressed.
In the heyday of automatics, the grey rinse was the first of 2, sometimes 3 rinses. In fact, depending on brand and water level, often 2/3's or more of the wash water was drained away. No one in their most generous moment ever called even this deeper draining a rinse. It was a cool-down, followed, in some Whirlpool family machines, by a second cool-down, then a spin, spray rinses, and finally a full deep rinse, AND THEN even more spray rinses.
When I first heard of the grey (aka, alien ;'D ) rinses I thought it was an exaggeration. Are you sure it doesn't drain all of the water away and simply not spin?
So much for wishful hyperbole.
The new GE's drain for over six minutes, and proceed to rinse without spinning and rinse in less than half a tub full of water, unless you flip a switch. Then you get a full spin a a full rinse fill.
Are there washers out there that actually only allow a grey rinse, period, with no option out?