Extra Rinse..."Yes or No"

[DADoES]

 
1) Calypso - don't use it much, usually for chlorine bleach on whites.

2) Neptune TL - a little more often but not on every load, always with bleach.

3) Intuitive Eco - sets per cycle to either of whatever is the default rinse, or two choices for Shower Rinse (if that isn't the default).

4) Intuitive Eco - four choices for default rinse on all cycles, except some cycles are "hardwired" for Double Deep.  Muddy cycle runs two deep rinses and sprays in the final spin, plus a prewash (four water changes plus the sprays).

5) Whirlpool Gold - used Extra Rinse once that I recall.

 

[appnut]

Largely on loads of towels and personal whites.  Otherwise, no. 

 

[panthera]

Yes, please

I always second rinse. Period.

 

[akronman]

Top load, extra rinse?

I'm with APPNUt, 2 rinses for towels and anything that I used bleach on, whites. Almost nothing else.

 

[gregingotham]

no

i agree with Mickeyd...in a Frigidaire 1-18 you don't need a second rinse. Many times after the initial rinse during the spin, the rinse water of the deep rinse is pretty clear. Then they get another spray during the final spin. That's enough!

 

[askolover]

The Asko rinses 4 times anyway and the Miele does 3...I'm happy with both.

 

[panthera]

I'm a bit

Surprised at the vigour with which some here are asserting how the rest of us are to rinse. You do what you like and leave me and my double rinse alone!

 

[launderess]

With H-Axis washers

Several rinses has always been the norm. Though modern units can get away with two or three (maybe four) thanks to fact most extract after main wash and between each rinse. Washers of old (h-axis) such as my old Miele often only gave a short pulse spin between second and or third rinse, then a full spin before final. This often meant four, five or more rinses.

Older "washers" only where laundry was transferred to an extractor also had four or more rinses for same reason.

My AEG Lavamat even on "normal" with four rinses does better than the older Miele, again largely because it spins after wash and between rinses. Oddly if one chooses "Sensitive" then there are two deep rinses, spin, then three or four more rinses (cannot recall offhand). What gets me about the AEG Oko-Lavamat is the machine allots one hour or a bit more for rinsing and final spin drying.

Top loading washers since they use high dilution detergents shouldn't require more than one or two rinses. Use of chlorine bleach or some other chemicals may change that a bit.

Of course when laundry was or is being done with soap several rinses (with a few in hot or boiling water) were the norm; but that was more about getting all that soap out of washing. Then came bluing, and maybe starching as well.

 

[thomasortega]

OCD, me?

at least 4 rinses on maximum water level before the final rinse with 2 or 3 capfuls of softener.

Sorry, i'm latin... if my clothes don't look like rubber and people notice i'm arriving just because of the fabric softener smell, it's not ok.

Add to the formula for a perfect wash: 2 capfuls of scent booster and 3 or 4 or 10 dryer sheets.

Then half bottle of wrinkle release spray per load (not because of the wrinkles, but to make sure the scent is there)

I have no idea why Darryl starts sneezing and coughing (crying sometimes) and the cats run to the neighbor's house (next block) when i'm drying my loads.

Ps. I love those 5-load bottles of Downy that come with a tap. Darryl insists the manufacturer says 175 loads.

 

[panthera]

I

Bet those who oppose extra rinses would be surprised at what they discovered if they gave their clothes one sometime. Again, though -those here saying there is no need to double rinse are trying to force their will on the rest of us and need to keep that for dirty laundry.

 

[frigilux]

Launderess-- I grew up with a mom who used bluing for all loads of whites. She'd dilute a few drops in a half-cup of water and pour it in the timed dispenser of our Kenmore. It was fun to watch the blue appear during rinse fill--which was programmed as warm on most cycles of our machine. She dissolved Argo starch in very hot water and added some something called Satina (I think). It was a little solid, blue chunk she'd break off a bar of the stuff; supposedly made ironing starched items easier.

Edit: Found a photo of Satina via Google.

 

[potatochips]

Normally no, unless it's very dirty clothes or bleached items.

 

[wft2800]

I ALWAYS go for extra rinsing. If I've used chlorine bleach, I actually send the machine round on a second wash cycle with fresh detergent, learned the hard way (skin allergy reaction) how important it is to do that.

 

[helicaldrive]

Always

If enough detergent is used to get clothes clean, then one rinse is never sufficient and the first rinse water is always too cloudy. I wouldn't want my clothes to get dingy from insufficient rinsing. And presumably the rebound odor some people complain about in their exercise clothes is due to bacteria setting up housekeeping in the excess unrinsed detergent residue (not to mention fabric softener). BTW Persil rinses out much easier than Tide. JMO

I switched to the FL so I don't have to feel guilty about using too much water to do extra rinses.

I especially like to do extra rinses on blue jeans. I like to buy them rigid and rinse them well so they fade brightly and do not have that grungy undertone that today's pre-washed jeans tend to have. Again JMO.

(And I'll never understand wearing jeans more than once so the whiskers fade in a pattern, thus advertising that the wearer has crotch odor. Gross)

 

[mayken4now]

2nd

Yes, sometimes no. Will make the A608 do several spray rinses.

Agree 100% with Helicaldrive.

 

[Unimatic1140]

It's a rarity that I do a second rinse, only in a suds-lock situations. I find the faster the washer spins (rpm speed wise) between the wash and the rinse, the clearer the rinse water has a tendency to be. Solid tubs I find are superior are rinsing IMO, once the suds and dirty water is thrown over the top into the outer tub it never can come in contact with that wash load again. Perforated tub machines can sometimes reintroduce the suds in the rinse, especially if they have suds-locked and then I will do a second rinse.

 

[norgeway]

Robert is right on..

Basically the new HE washers don't rinse worth anything in my opinion, especially front loaders, they can be run thru 3 or 4 rinses and still have suds, if you don't use water in the first place you cant rinse out the soap!, Solid tub machines with a overflow rinse ARE far superior, especially Frigidaire, Kelvinator, Norge etc.

 

[frigilux]

In addition to perforated tubs, recirculating filtering systems can also reintroduce some suds into rinses. The first shot of water that came through the filter of our 1960 Kenmore often contained suds. The coin-op GE Filter-Flo in the laundry room of my freshman dorm did the same, but to a lesser extent as I recall. The worst offender, though, was my 1986 Frigidaire.

 

[launderess]

This conversation is interesting to one

So many new owners of H-axis washing machines often report their first or even several washings can be done adding detergent for the amount of previous residue.

 

[rolls_rapide]

I just let my machine calculate the rinses itself.

If the load is 'in balance' for interim spins, and minimal suds, the machine will default to two rinses.

If suds clog the machine, an extra rinse is added. If not able to achieve balance and thus aborting the spin (on the rinse), an extra rinse is added.

I think the optical sensor also has a degree of say in the calculation. Heavy zeolite powders seem to get an extra rinse, even if they're not foamy.

These 'extra' rinses are strange beasts. The water flow is through the pre-wash dispenser compartment, then the water flow is switched to the usual main-wash compartment, drum filling to normal low-level. The extra rinse last about three minutes, drains (no spinning), then immediately into next 'normal' rinse fill.