mickeyd
Well-known member
A Paradigm Shift heralded by Frigilux.
The whole hope and effort is to launder the load in as little water as possible. First for conservation of a diminishing natural resource ( see HBO's "Vice" piece on Texas Drought or the PBS "Nature" edition about Beavers -- both currently available), and second to get the laundry clean. With minimal water the laundry rises all the way to the top and falls with the full weight and force of a wet towel -- not possible in a vintage amount of water. It works, especially with the constant saturation by the turbojets. There is nothing new about this method when you understand it as a refinement of rock pounding and washboard washing used for centuries.
The rinse uses twice as much for dilution, etc., and since the load is clean, the heavy falling and thrashing is no longer necessary which cannot happen anyway in the high volume of water used for rinsing.
It takes some getting used to, especially for a dyed-in-the-wool TL Codger like myself. But seeing is believing, and I am convinced. The clothes are clean, washed effectively in just over two gallons of water. To put it into perspective, my 18 pound Norge took almost two gallons just to fill the lower regions before you could see any water at all in the tub, and then another 18 gallons to wash, which it did marvelously just like the LG does.
The whole hope and effort is to launder the load in as little water as possible. First for conservation of a diminishing natural resource ( see HBO's "Vice" piece on Texas Drought or the PBS "Nature" edition about Beavers -- both currently available), and second to get the laundry clean. With minimal water the laundry rises all the way to the top and falls with the full weight and force of a wet towel -- not possible in a vintage amount of water. It works, especially with the constant saturation by the turbojets. There is nothing new about this method when you understand it as a refinement of rock pounding and washboard washing used for centuries.
The rinse uses twice as much for dilution, etc., and since the load is clean, the heavy falling and thrashing is no longer necessary which cannot happen anyway in the high volume of water used for rinsing.
It takes some getting used to, especially for a dyed-in-the-wool TL Codger like myself. But seeing is believing, and I am convinced. The clothes are clean, washed effectively in just over two gallons of water. To put it into perspective, my 18 pound Norge took almost two gallons just to fill the lower regions before you could see any water at all in the tub, and then another 18 gallons to wash, which it did marvelously just like the LG does.
