Should You Wash Your Underwear in a Salad Spinner?
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2020
- If you don’t have in-unit laundry, you may find it difficult to find a clean pair of underwear between laundromat visits.
Which is why we were intrigued by this post from Self.com, in which the auther waxes poetic about washing your underwear in a salad spinner. Now, the main role of a salad spinner is to dry salad greens with the help of centrifugal (or centripetal? I’m not a scientist) force.
Equipped with just a salad spinner each, and an item that needed to be washed (Abu and I thought it best to spare viewers from images of our dirty underwear), we sought to see how well the salad spinner acted as a quasi washing machine.
The steps outlined in the original post are to first spin the laundry in water with some detergent, then replace with clean water for a “rinse cycle,” then spin several times to dry the item as best as possible. We were sure to use less detergent than we thought, as over-soaping is a common mistake that results in faded, pilled, and stretched-out clothes.
-Joel Kahn
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Consumers Reports magazine (a very credible source) once tested which clothes washers worked best, and why. Their conclusion was that the clothing got cleaner the more times the clothing moved from top to bottom, because it increased the water moving through the fabric. (This makes great sense). So a spinner would only help in the drying. Hand agitation first would be the better cleaner.
To do it properly; requires manual agitation, back-and-forth with knob-style circular spinner, which is only spinner that you can do this with. The results are excellent using this method. I use it for camping, washing tops, underwear.
You are the smart one like me
Changing direction every half spin or so is the most important part! Needs the agitation. Thats why this hack recommends the green cuisinart spinner. Sometimes I throw in a tennis ball for good measure (also improves washing and drying in full size machines).
You can use the scrubba bag to properly handwash clothes and the salad spinner as a dryer to quickly remove as much water possible before hanging it to dry.
I hand wash my delicates with a silicone portable washboard. Then use the spinner to rinse and extract the water so when you hang the delicates, they dry a bit faster.
if you're like me and have to use reusable period pads or underwear, having one that's only for these items is a lifesaver. i use them for socks too since my washer or dryer keeps eating them.
I did this back in 2018 when I was on a family camping holiday.
It got my socks underwear and t-shirts clean.
You can only use the green one to do this and you have to do a half spin one way and a half spin the other to create that agitation motion
If you can get your salad spinner to move in two different directions the result might be better
I think you need to be able to replicate the rotations and jerks of a washer
It's great for camping or cleaning baby or toddler clothes while traveling
I feel like if you tilted it on it’s side so the cycle was going up and down instead of sideways it might “toss” it like a front load washer, but I don’t know if those things are water proof, so you might just end up spilling water everywhere
I really wished this worked because 99% of the time my son uses his toilet paper and tops up with wet wipes... but that 1% chile I have to throw underwear away....and then I have to replace it!!!
I was just looking at this salad spinner on Amazon thinking I could wash hankies with it and I CZcams it and here it is.
I tend to use wash rags (or old cut up shirts) to clean my dishes as opposed to sponges (which get all kinds of bacteria in them), so I find this a good hack for cleaning those wash rags nightly (because I can't do a whole load of laundry every night just to wash the rags too in a full washing machine). I specifically came here because I wanted to buy a little foot powered eco machine but am not paying over $100 just to wash my dish rags. lol
This is how we women have been agitating our bras for ages! Hand wash then throw it in the old salad spinner!
No wonder my salads tasted different at home
The manual hand crank allows forward and reverses spinning, which would agitate the clothing articles with water and soap for a. better cleaning.
I would like to have a washing machine like that....but it should be bigger than that salad spinner. It's a portable machine and safe the water. It's also off-grid. why doesn't someone put more ideas into this design and make it reachable price? So we can save energy. Good for camp though.
Look up the Lavario, the action of the ‘collander’ part of the spinner should pump up and down, maybe in a bucket, forcing water through the clothes, then the salad spinner could spin out water a bit
I will try the salad spinner to remove excess moisture from clothing I washed using different methods.
Fold up a towel, place on clean floor, on a bin bag maybe. Fold up wrung out wet clothes on the towel. Put a clean folded up towel on top. Step on the pile, and trample to squeeze the water out. Hang up the damp clothes and the two towels 😀 I’ve done this many times, works just great
Is it more dry than when you wring it by hand?
my salad spinner can hold 3 shirts
You are supposed to use an industrial salad spinner.
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All comments are pretty legit, so lemme summarize with an update: There are small portable manual washers which supposedly do what a washing machine does. Prices are in the $50-$150 range, if I recall. They're all larger than a salad spinner, and if you want an electric / automatic with hookups/etc. the price goes up, as well as size. Most of these are $300+. This gets pretty costly for a gimmick factor I'm not willing to shell out some cash for... Well, actually, I'm going to order one now because I cannot think of a more economical way to remove tiny pieces of a broken vase from all of the laundry which I had unknowingly begun to consolidate all of and wash together. It was only after starting to fold it, did I cut myself and notice the vase was missing from it's temporary spot. Perhaps a salad spinner might be more effective in my case, just to do a dry spin, and not contaminate the apartment building's washer and dryer with clingy, hard to see glass while spending a fortune trying to separate each item of clothing as opposed to embedding my hands with glass. It certainly did the deciding for me on what clothes to throw away, and I as much as I'd like my worst enemy to wear the nice stuff, I wouldn't want to give the sociopath a new idea and see an innocent person in that same item of clothing, nor have them wash it at a public laundromat. I think we're pretty safe commenting here, as the mindset would never dream of washing their clothes in a salad spinner... unless it's their dirty underwear before returning the spinner to someone else's kitchen. You can tell I've been subjected to this type of person, eh? The rest of what I'd say about this (the summary? Oh right) are the same as the comments below.
The guy with the handle spinner could've simulated the washing machine agitation by rotating it back and forth instead of just going one side. 🤔
Listen guys..this idea is a great idea for us Ladies? Cos wringing delicates with your hands is bad for 2 reasons you've never thought of? 1.For those you have RA in their hands, or reg. Arthritis, & 2.Clothing detergent is super harsh on the skin!😐😕😕😕
Should have put the soap and water in first
Answer: no.
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