Why You Just Gotta Love Boil Washing

[launderess]

Here's me setting up to finally get to some laundry that has been sat sitting plastic wrapped in the fridge for perhaps a week or so. Did the pillow slips on the mangle, then went for the sheets and duvet cover to be done on the ironing table. To my horror there were these strange pink sploches everywhere.

Now am totally done as these were new linens and wasn't looking forward to chucking them into the bin, sooooo it was time to do what a "Launderess" has got to do. Turn to the Miele.

Chucked the lot into the Miele, added some "Dry Clorox for Whites" (and oxygen based bleach), and set temperature for 180F.

About one hour later, everything came out brilliant white, with not a trace of the pink stains. The uber hot water gave the unit a nice cleaning out as well, so am that much thrilled. Nothing like 180F water going through the pump and drain hose to clear out any bio film. More the better that this water was "oxygen" powered! *LOL*

 

[exploder3211]

Must ask
Why where they in the fridge??

 

[launderess]

Housewives have been putting damp laundry there (wrapped in cling flim), since about the time such appliances appeared on the scene. Keeps damp laundry from mouldering when one cannot get to the ironing right away; especially in damp and warm climates.

L.

 

[gyrafoam]

Evidently those red cooties were either deposited by the washer when you laundered those items the first time----or even worse----in the plastic wrap.

Not much incentive to use the plastic wrap on food items!

 

[launderess]

Don't think so, as other items in the same bag did not have the pink stains, and they all were laundered in the same wash cycle. Indeed nothing laundered before nor after have developed such stains. Also take great exception to your inference that my washing machine is some how infected.

As for what the stains could be, it is entirely possible something dripped down onto the laundry. Before chucking the bag, noticed it has several tears/holes, so anything from red wine to watermelon could have been the culprit as well.

There is a type of mould which is pink, but mould stains rarely sink through to both sides of a fabric, as these stains were.

L.

 

[gyrafoam]

Did not make comment with malicious intent.
Would be most unusual for our machines to be steril.

 

[exploder3211]

I can tell i come from the time where i don't iron jack crap and i would just throw stuff in the dryer.....

The only times i put cloths in the fridge it was dirty nasty wet frozen socks in a ziplock baggie, that grams found about 7 months later (mind you i dated the bag)still in the freezer.. Did this nurmous times but she never got the point

 

[xyz]

Hey Laundress, yes there is a Flora that grows pink after the wash around here in La. in this high humidity. I tell you this, just this morning, I figured out a mysteriuos stain on my wife's work shirts. She wears a polyester synthetic type uniform shirt for work and she asked me why she had stains on her shirts. I looked at the stains and swore to her that they were bleach stains because the shirts were black and the stains had turned yellowish. But we owned no bleach as I don't wash with bleach, or as well as chlorine bleach is concerned, I don't. But today as I was getting a used washer cleaned up for sale, I realized where the stains had come from. I clean all my machines that go up for sale with a generic "bleach" spray cleaner. I had just finished on a wash cycle and going to rinse when I sprayed the lid down with this cleaner and watched it creep down through the lid and onto the clothes. That's where the stains came from because I always wash the families clothes as test runs on machines I have repaired and put up for sale. This practice has bit me in the butt before because I ruined some jeans when I test run a dryer once and snagged some clothes and almost caught them on fire.