Wash times

[nanaosaki06]

The "Whitest Whites" cycle on my machine is 90 minutes long. I do a bunch of stuff before that though.

[freezorburn]

Jan 17, 2015 1:42:22 GMT -5 pipsqueak said:

Jan 16, 2015 8:14:35 GMT -5 @kellys said:

As long as they're getting clean, who cares how many minutes they're agitating?
People hand washing their diapers probably aren't agitating them for 45-50 minutes.

My understanding of it was they need to be in the detergent water that long they don't necessarily need to be agitating that long.....which is why a lot of people doing the handwashing challenge found it beneficial to agitate for a few, walk away, come back agitate a few more and repeat the agitate/soak cycle a few times before moving on to rinsing.  Not sure why old top loaders don't seem to need the same amount of time for washing - I refuse to claim knowledge on the mechanics of wash machine operation.

This. Plus, Flats. And, comparing the mechanical action to a camp washer or passing flats over a washboard for a only a few minutes, vs. the gentle tumbling of an HE machine -- when you hand wash, you get a lot more mechanical action done in the same amount of time. And soaking is your friend.