Roscoe, yes, I've used the steam option to refresh lightly worn items, especially light jackets and such. My personal experience using the Normal cycle have been mostly disappointing. In fact, I have only used the cycle a couple of times and Monday evening was the last straw. Early evening, I had washed a large load of sweats and sox (between 3/4 & 7/8 full) on Normal warm/hot, high spin. Since it was such a uniform load I decided to try one more time. Before I went to bed, I wanted to fold and put away that last load before I went to bed. I began pulling the load out of the dryer to put in the laundry basket and discovered there were several arms or legs of garments that had fairly damp areas still. I was pretty disappointed to say the least. Put the load on timed dry medium heat for 25 minutes. Yesterday I did 3 more loads--jeans and two other loads of sweats (1/2 to 2/3 full each). I washed and dried the jeans on the downloaded Denim cycle. When I started the dryer, it wouldn't allow me to adjust for degree of dryness. So I pushed start and time showed up as 35 minutes. There was no indication this as an auto sense cycle, but it turned out it was. The load ended up adding 11 minutes. When I pulled the jeans out, they were what I considered perfect. Nicely dried with just a slight hint of moisture on waistbands and seams. I dried the two loads of sweats on Denim and they came out perfect. Denim it seems is the equivalent of Perm Press with "more" dryness level. So now, my cycles I use are going to be towels (with more dryness level) and Denim. If I still was working and had all those clothes, I'd be using the default settings on Perm Press for those loads. The initial load of sweats dried on Norma took 48 minutes before the cycle finished. The two subsequent loads of sweats each took 38 minutes on Denim.
I've also used steam to refresh some bedding that had been stored for quite a while.
