The Sick Laundry Cycle

[DigAPony]

Is your LAUNDRY making you ill? 30°C cycles breed bacteria and transfer germs from your underwear to tea towels

EXCLUSIVE: Microbiologist Dr Lisa Ackerley has dubbed the phenomenon the 'Sick laundry Cycle' and warned that gentle washing isn't strong enough to kill bugs.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[arbilab]

What about...

...The Sick News Cycle, of which Daily Mail has often been accused IINM? (What about the Sick Spelling Cycle, Brits obsessively inserting useless vowels as if they were French?)

60C/140F is seldom available to Americans unless they own their water heater and set it above the recommended 125F, paying highly to do so. No coin laundry supplies water at 60C/140F. Increasingly, machines mix supply water down to 110F, which is just barely adequate for cleaning much less disinfection. US washers do not heat as a rule. And we've ALL been heavily-marketed "cold wash", though few of us HERE have bought it.

But wait a tick. DRYERS reach disinfection temperatures in the neighborhood of 160F which is a safe COOKING temperature for most meats. If Americans with their 110F washers were really laundering in bacterial soup and it were really a health problem, wouldn't we be a lot sicker than we are? (I mean bacterially, not socio-politically.)

Meanwhile it has been shown that shoppingcart handles are the filthiest thing anyone comes in contact with in US or EU. Which tells us the worst problem is not what we do with our skivvies but what we do with our HANDS.

 

[foraloysius]

This is thread #3 about this. See

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37043

and

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?48156_11

See also:

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?48157_32~1

 

[paulc]

Brits obsessively inserting useless vowels as if they were F

Arilab, us "Brits" spell correctly thank you very much!!!

 

[danemodsandy]

Rick:

When talking about British (International) English vs. American English, it's usually well to remember that Britain invented English, and therefore has the right to spell it and use it any way it likes.

I have had a job where I had to communicate with clients in the U.K. regularly, and I found it a delight to "switch gears" and write "colour" and "honour," as well as referring to Plexiglas as Perspex and a parking lot as a car park. I got to the point where some British clients didn't realize ("realise") I was American at first, which I took as evidence of a job well done.

It's fun that there are differences in nations and people. Enjoy it.

 

[tomturbomatic]

In most airflow dryers, the evaporation of moisture holds down the air temperature and certainly the temperature of the fabrics to around 110F. An example of this was the advertising for the Maytag Halo-of-Heat Dryer which stated that the drying temperatures were slightly above 100F, which was true, as long as the load was damp. The Permanent Press Cycle used additional heated tumbling time AFTER the load was dry to allow the fabrics (and air temperature) to reach the magic dewrinkling temperature of 160F. This is also why Maytag recommended this cycle for achieving extra dryness. While machine drying reduces the "germ" count, when the temperature rises after the load is dry, many microbes have had the opportunity to respond to the unfavorable conditions by encysting which preserves the ability to come back to life when conditions are favorable.

 

[arbilab]

The English invented English? Whou kneuw? Took em to Rev 5. Americans--when they can spell at all--spell in Rev 6.

I'm genetically British, few centuries back. Got the teeth to prove it. As well, can sing all the major parts of My Fair Lady in character. Gwauun!

 

[iheartmaytag]

British invented English

Hate to go all Developmental Pshcholinguistic here, but technically English is a West Germatic derrivitiave. However, English is standardized from many languages in which French is one of them. The British (Anglo hence Engels)felt a need for standardization as we became more wordy and literate and established the standard for the "King's" English, which with the other language influences, French, Spanish, Italian (the Romance languages) you have the spellings that are different from American English which has evolved from "Old English" to the slang ridden speak we use now.

Prior to standardization words were pretty much spelled anyway the, somewhat illiterate writer, wished to write them. Once a standard dictionary was developed we had a guide for proper spelling and definition of the words in the language. Let us remember that a dictionary, at least by American Webster's standard is that of common usage, and not proper usage.

Not saying one is more correct than the others, just explaining the differences. What feels right is more what we learn and are used to as both are correct in their settings. [this post was last edited: 8/26/2013-13:12]

 

[arbilab]

If you don't know where the U goes in the word gauge, you can spell it gage and it's still correct! As Liza Doolittle said, "Well that's a mercy anyhow".