Miele T1 Woolens / Silk Cycle Time?

[labboy]

As we progress with our kitchen remodel, we’ve been doing much needed cleaning and organizing throughout the house. I was washing some wool items and selected Woolen / Silks on the dryer. Cycle time was only 5 minutes and not adjustable. I checked in the App and it was the same (pic attached) and not adjustable.

I could understand a short dry time for silks or light cashmere. However, 5 minutes won’t do anything for some heavier wool fabrics.

I ended up using the Delicates cycle and everything came out flawlessly.

Why would they have a non adjustable dry time? I’m sure there is some good Miele logic behind it but I’m not getting it.

Bob

 

[mrboilwash]

My Bosch heatpump dryer`s wool cycle takes only 6 minutes too.
It`s not meant to dry anything its only purpose is to fluff things up after line drying or "flat" drying because wool is very susceptible to mechanical agitation and thus might felt badly if dried in a dryer.

If I had an expensive wool sweater or similar I`d rather give it a gentle shake after drying than putting it through the stress of one of those wool cycles in a dryer.

On the other hand for fake wool like Acrylic any low heat cycle will do fine.

 

[labboy]

Thanks. That makes perfect sense now. I like the Hand Wash / Delicate cycle on the W1 but had always laid out sweaters flat. I had not thought of using that to fluff the fabric up.

Side Note: I got some Perwoll and love it. Works beautifully on wool and silk.

Bob

 

[henene4]

There are certain dryers that do full wool drying.
Drying racks are a pretty known and old way to dry movement sensitive items.
Wool is surprisingly resistant to medium high temperatures - as long as mechanical action is kept for a minimum.

The state of the art wool drying technique was pioneered by ELux with the ProTex dryers about a decade and a half ago.

If you have a variable speed motor, you just crank drum speed up to "distribution" speed.
Laundry stays in a fixed position relative to the drum - so no mechanical action.
Every few minutes, you slow down for a few seconds to reposition the item, and back to distribution speed.

Even several washer dryer combos do that today.

I know certainly that Arcelik dryers, ELux dryers and combos and even some Hotpoint/Indesit combos offer that tech.

These short cycles used to be called "Wool Finish". You could use them before or after line drying to fluff up the items.

Completely different tiers.

 

[aquarius1984]

Lux pioneered absolutely nothing when it comes to tumble drying woollens.

Bosch had dryers in the late 1970s that had a wool cycle for fully drying woollen garments. The drum rotaries at speeds of around 100rpm with gentle heating.

Indesit seems to be the first washing machines that had 80/100rpm wash speeds on wool garments - the new evolution range they brought out in early 2000

 

[henene4]

I totally forgot about the old BSH versions, correct.

ELux however made that popular again today.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Bosch 1970`s Dryer

With Special Wool Cycle that uses a faster drum speed and pins the woolens againast the drum while the air flows through them , the thinking less tumbling against each other with less shrinking & felting .