Samsung Washer Sanitizes w/o Hot Water or Bleach

[sudsmaster]

I'm not so concerned about silver in the wash water. After all, most of us have silver dental fillings. Additionally, people seem to eat off silver tableware with no ill effects. And practially nobody drinks laundry wash water...

Like others here, what I'm more concerned about is that the "silver sanitation" feature will lull people into thinking that inadequate temperatures, detergent amounts, and wash time that result in still-soiled laundered fabrics will be ok since the silver will kill everything anyway. This is one reason why I'm so much of an advocate for laundry phosphates and hot water - they seem to clean better than anything else out there, and if the fabric is clean then the germ count will naturally be low.

 

[mistervain]

I agree with the above post. The return to common sense with regards to laundering is needed, not expensive and unproven gadgetry.

Keep in mind that unless someone has thought of a way to make money off of it, none of these so-called laundry/environmental "improvements" would ever make it onto a showroom floor.

 

[Designgeek]

Interesting thing about that Persil advert is, it's a UK commercial where the music track is sung in what sure sounds to me like an American accent.

Why do you think they did that? Is it the specific style of the music, that's an American genre and calls for a US accent, or is it something else?

 

[bajaespuma]

And now, for something really annoying....

I'm less concerned about incidental bacteria than I am about whitening without chlorine bleach and killing off all the other nasty stuff that can be in there. I also would like to accomplish this in less than 2 hours. Which is why I care more about machines that can heat their water and why I'm such a broken record about MAKING THESE MACHINES TO RUN ON 220 VOLTS!!!!

 

[mistervain]

We all have our broken-record issues, mine of course being the whole water-level thing....jajaja