Here we go again, the mantra of washing laundry in cold water

[cleanteamofny]

What's best???

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<h2><span id="When_to_wash_towels_in_cold_hot_or_warm_water">When to wash towels in cold, hot, or warm water</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">As earlier stated, towels are meant to be washed in cold or warm water. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But, does this mean that we are never to use hot water on our towels? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Surely you must have come across a label on some towels that reads “hot water-friendly,” what then do they mean? </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are specific times when you might have to choose a different water temperature like hot water for instance, over the ideal cold or warm. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hot water is perfect for your towels to get soaked in when they are extremely dirty and heavily infested with germs and bacteria. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How do you know your towel is contaminated with germs? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Various research has proven that a bath towel most especially, is home to over 80% of bacteria and disease-causing germs. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The more you use a towel without washing it, the more germs you collate, and the more the towel fibers are rendered useless. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">When your towels get to this point, what it needs goes far beyond just a cold or warm water wash. At this point, the towels are actually yearning to be rejuvenated. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hot water helps in loosening the fibers by softening the ingrained dirt clogging the pores. Asides from that, it kills the bacteria and germs and expels that damp odor.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other hand, cold water is perfect for a first wash and subsequent weekly wash. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is advised that you wash new towels before even using them. This you are to do with cold water and a very tiny amount of detergent. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cold water easily removes every form of dust or debris and wash towels clean. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Warm water can be used to treat towels periodically and rid them of day-to-day bacteria.</span>

 

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https://tauwel.com/should-towels-be-washed-in-hot-water/

 

[DADoES]

 
Being that 99.9% of my towels are white or colorfast, there's no logical reason to wash them in a separate cold-water load when they can all go together with the accumulated load of all the kitchen cloths and towels, socks, and other white cottons in hot water.  Less water usage is involved for a single LARGE load vs. multiple small loads.

 

[circlew]

Who wrote that article Larry posted? It sounds like something written either by a computer, or by a foreign person without good understanding of the English language. That's a very strange usage of the word "collate" - I think "collect" is the more appropriate word. Collate means to collect, sort, and assemble in a particular order - something that doesn't happen with germs in a towel.

I wonder who such a piece of information is aimed at? They must think their readers are total idiots. It's common sense to wash a new towel before use. Towels "yearning" to be be rejuvenated? That's a new one on me!

 

[cleanteamofny]

 

 

Tom,

let's just say it is a third-party Amazon link.

We must take this article with a grain of salt and march to our own drummer's beat.

 

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[bradfordwhite]

The more plush a towel is, the more care one has to give them to keep them fluffy.

That tends to mean not using hot water, not using to much fabric softener, and making sure to dry them in a tumble dryer vs. air drying.

Certain sheet set will quickly deteriorate if you wash in hot water...I've learned from experience.

 

[bpetersxx]

more on this

now I'm in the group

new T shirts I got have to be washed in cold water

no fabric softener

Are they kidding

T shirts are worn next to the skin you have to wash them in warm or hot water

or cold water and ludicrous amounts of detergent oxy clean snowy bleach or some such rubbish

and wash them for ludicrous amounts of time

 

[appnut]

I've learned that most likely so much indicates being washed in cold water is to avoid liability due to shrinkage or other "damage" to fabrics. Most people don't give a tought about approaching laundry. They just toss clothes in the machine, throw in some chemicals, and push a button that gives them the same settings repeatedly. I recently bought a new set of towels. Instructions said wash cold; gentle cycle tumble dry low. I washed them in luke warm water dried on medium when I brought them home. After using them for the first time I upped the wash temp to about 130F and dried on medium high. the last time I washed them the hot temep was about 140. No issues whatsoever.

 

[thomasortega]

Los angeles, California....

In my laundry room hot means HOT.

I cook my clothes (towels, whites and light colors) in freaking hot
Blacks and darks, eventually, warm (depending on what loads im washing together, it deplets the water from my heater before it has a chance to recover).

Wool or anything extremely delicate, ok, i may consider a cold wash.

And regarding rinses.... if I see a tiny bubble when the asher is draining in the laundry sink, that is an extra rinse (or 2 or 15) before the final rinse with a capful of downy april fresh.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

cold washing

Cold washing will never go away. Nothing has changed.

 

[bpetersxx]

bump

I bought some Hanes t shirts and the label says cold water

you have to wash things like these in warm water at least as they are worn next to the skin and get everything on them and in them

 

[kd12]

Looking at today's POD (10/11) for the Maytag A902 it's interesting that only Bright Colors called for a cold wash in the washing instructions. I'm not sure how "bright" my gray t-shirts are but they all call for cold-wash only. Also boxers call for cold wash and briefs call for warm wash, regardless of color. I just ignore this whole "use cold-wash only" stupidity that certain interests are calling for and just go with what the clothing tag says. Also have to put a plug in for Cheer. Used to use Tide years ago, and it seems Cheer lives up to its old All Tempa-Cheer tagline. Gets clothes cleaner for me than Tide did in all wash temperatures, and smells better too. I think the brand of detergent you are using really does matter for cold vs warm wash emps.

 

[DADoES]

 
At the mother's place today.  She was running the washer/dryer, again.  I sometimes think she's washing just because she can't find anything else productive to do.

Anyway.

I peeped at the washer settings.  Cold.

Weather has been warm (80°Fs) and humid.  The incoming cold water is cold enough that the cold supply tap and the hose were covered with condensation.

I had a gentle discussion with her about it, reminding her of the photos of accumulated gookus in the disassembled Kenmore 90 that she used for six years.

She said she uses cold because that's what the labels on the clothes instruct.

I said that I wash this (pointing to my shirt) at 115°F to no ill effects.

I may have convinced her to at least use the warm/cold setting (approx 95°F) at minimum.

 

[justjunque]

I don't know why, but I just can't seem to bring myself to wash in cold.
Yes, we have several garments whose labels call for cold water wash. But, even then, I can only compromise by using the warm setting. I've never checked to see what the temperature of our "warm" is, but I'd describe it as "lukewarm". Certainly closer to cold than hot.
When I want a warmer wash, I stand there while it's filling, and toggle the selector between warm and hot.

Barry

 

[fisherpaykel]

wash temps

At least for some Fisher&Paykel toploaders warm cold is 35 C=95F, warm is 40 C=104 F, hot warm is 50 C=122 F, and hot is tap hot temp. I don't know if my GWL11 model has any different temps but the warm cold temp feels warm to my hand and normal body temp is 98.6 F I believe. I think all of us here know body oils and grease and oil spots won't usually wash out well in cold water. I use the warm cold temp or warm for machine washable wool and no problems so far on the washable wool cycle. Glenn@dadoes probably knows if the GWL11 has different set temps. I don't recall ever washing in cold in recent years at least not since being on this site, thanks to you all.

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[sudsmaster]

Hell, I still use hot wash for some things.

 

 

[appnut]

Hell, I still use hot wash for some things.

Towels, most sheets.

 

[sudsmaster]

Like I said 201 days ago,

 

"Towels, sheets, whites, etc. Hot water."

 

 

[dermacie]

I use warm water to wash all of my regular clothes.  My undies, socks, and towels I wash in hot water with powdered Tide and a scoop of BIZ.  I always use fabric softener.  

 

[gelaundry4ever]

cold water

The only thing I will wash in cold is a load of darks depending on the weather. Enough of this washing everything in cold water stupid crap!

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

The only thing I’ll ever Wash in cold water is

Either something of really really high value to me that I wouldn’t feel comfortable washing in warmer temperatures or something with proteins on it because temperature would would cause it to become a permanent stain