Energy savings vs Wash performance

[askomiele]

Today in the belgian newspapers published a test from testaankoop (the belgian official independent testing agency)tested some washing detergents and their performance in cooler water (20°C 68°F).
Both where powders specially made to wash in cold water. None of them washed as good as the loads done in warm water (+/- 40°C 104°F) As we know here for all those years. Temperature does matter when doing laundry!

Cold water washes had an extra 5min of washtime All machines where programmed to use the same washtime, number of rinses, spins.

 

[favorit]

Not to mention hygiene ...

I usually wash trousers, shirts, fleeces with warm or cold water ; sometimes even ligh soiled dark sheets

But I'd never wash undies, socks, towels, kitchen & table linen in cold water. My dark ones are run @ 60°C/140°F. Whites with rubber bands go @ 60°C too, those without rubber sometimes are run @ 75°C or quite rarely @ 95°C.

Everything else that needs special hygiene (i.e gym clothes) but can't stand hot water runs with a special disinfectant for baby napkins.

The best saving is ... no wash. On the opposite side there are boilwashes, go-go bleach and tons of disinfectants.
The reasonable course lies in the middle. Common sense says it's crazy to wash a towel used just one time.

 

[toggleswitch2]

I needs me a washer with a heater. A boil-washer is my next

Carl/Carlo:

~Runs with a special disinfectant for baby napkins.

What beautiful English!

Do you mean diapers ("nappies" in the UK). Napkins are for wiping the face while eating. "Servietta" in some Romance languages.............

~Common sense says it's crazy to wash a towel used just one time.

Some of my neighbors use lots of curry, others peanut oil and others garlic. Believe me I WISH towels were used once as the spices, herbs and other flavorings leech out of one's pores.

A foreign-born friend said when she first came to this country (permanenently, to live) said the people here stink as the result of the excess consumption of meat. We just don't notice it because we all stink alike! *LOL* I have seen cases where a person showers every day and the smell goes BACK ON HIM from the re-use of musty towels!

I was a cold water person (holds head down in shame) until I joined this site. Now it's warm, and up!

 

[gizmo]

napkins/serviettes

Nappy is a variation of napkin, source - Macquarie Australian Dictionary.

In Australia, napkins for the face are more commonly called serviettes. Often, cloth/linen ones are called napkins, paper ones are almmost always called serviettes. I had always thought that serviettes was a proprietary brand name, as I had generally seen the word embossed on serviette dispensers, and thought that "Serviette" was a brand of paper napkin. (in the same way that English people often refer to all brands of vacuum cleaners as "Hoovers", Americans often refer to paper tissues as "Kleenex" and Aussies often refer to any brand of electric food mixer as a "Mixmaster".) I have only recently learned that serviette was a legitimate generic term, not a brand name, and only just learned, from Toggles' post, that Italian shares the same term.

Chris.

 

[toggleswitch2]

and the refrigerator is a "Fridigaire"
a vacuum-bottle is a "Thermos"

 

[favorit]

napkins and diapers .... thermos & frigidaire

Having in Italy such politicians (both L & R).... it's so easy make a mess with nappies and diapers *LOL*

Here some old women who try to be smart say "frigidaire" instead of "frigo"/"frigorifero"
Nobody says "borraccia termica", everybody just say "thermos"

Garlic .... is a nightmare when eaten : even sweat smells of it !!! The trick is this : when cooking let garlic stay in the pan just for some minutes then throw it away (NOT in the garbage can). This works unless one uses TONS of garlic

To clear garlic and onion smell from hands just scrub hands under tap water with a stainless steel spoon, as it were a soap bar

Towels get musty sooner when washed in warm or cold water