Turns out dryers are pretty simple and mostly all decent. It’s the washers that are more complex and you should choose wisely.
I spent like 4 days looking at videos about dryers anyway. It’s like, the most exciting thing to happen this month.
At least my clothes come out dry in one cycle now.
Hmm I wouldn’t think that spinning faster would do much. I mean, what’s the difference? Once it gets going any decent speed the clothes should be pinned against the walls so going faster just kind of compresses them, which I wouldn’t expect to do much in terms of damage. Interesting.
I didn’t expect it either, so I was surprised to see damage show up relatively quickly (a couple of months). My theory is that it’s wringing them out with a much stronger force than anything you could ever do by hand, stretching the fibers beyond their normal use.
While it seems to be a controversial issue, there’s something everyone agrees on - delicates should not spin at the highest speeds. Why is that? If it caused no additional wear, wouldn’t it make sense to use the highest speed on everything? If not, wouldn’t the same forces apply to all clothing, even if the wear is not immediately obvious?
It’s entirely possible that the damage was coincidental and unrelated to the spin speed. My data is anecdotal, and should not be taken as gospel. I could not find any meaningful tests on the subject (e.g. we ran these towels 1000 times on medium spin then measured the wear). Every source I found is either a random person pretending to know everything, or part of an obvious sales pitch.
Welcome to the wonderful world of appliance shopping, where facts don’t matter but people’s made up impressions apparently do, and resistance to change is a huge driving force behind purchasing decisions.
You’re probably right. If machine A shredded that commenter’s clothes more than machine B, it’s unlikely the spin speed difference – especially between comparable front loaders – was actually the differentiating factor.