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Re: Now ASDA are at it.
Popped into the Reading Asda this morning and their Russell Hobbs machines are lined up in rows of 20’s right outside the store for easy access to your motor. Still only £177…..Roll up! Roll up! 🙂
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Umed (pup) has sent me this link.
12 minute wash 😡But then it is in the Sun, a paragon of truthful journalism (NOT)
Jim.
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It’s Russell Hobbs branded again.
12 minute twin jet speed wash. Just more spin by the PR dept :rolls:
Don
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don wrote:It’s Russell Hobbs branded again.
12 minute twin jet speed wash. Just more spin by the PR dept :rolls:
Don
Mention at the end of this about washing shouldn’t be too dirty.
Bet it’s good on Butchers aprons 🙂
Problem is the goons out there will be buying this pile of bottom effluent !Re: Now ASDA are at it.
Come on guys, I give you all these new features and then you don’t use them… :rolls:
😆
K.
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Ye cynical doubters all. Looks like a good idea to me. Half or more of the washing most people do has only been worn once. Even the Sun article explains it’s not for heavily soiled items, and the machine will surely have plenty of other cycles to choose from.
Mike.Re: Now ASDA are at it.
If it has been worn once then it will have bacteria on it, you can’t wash that away properly in 12 minutes.
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iadom wrote:If it has been worn once then it will have bacteria on it, you can’t wash that away properly in 12 minutes.
Ah, bring back the old days eh….Monday was ‘washday’, drag out the Hoovermatic, pour in a tub full of warm water, add a sprinkle of Omo and turn the timer to maximum warp factor (4 minutes). Pulsator slooshes into action and when it stops grab the tongs and drag ’em into the spinner. Hurl in a bowl of cold water on top, shut the lid and stand back.
Nip outside and wipe the soot off the clothesline by which time the spinner’s done it’s job. Lift the lid and hang the washing on the line. Sorted inside 10 minutes……happy days!
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iadom wrote:If it has been worn once then it will have bacteria on it, you can’t wash that away properly in 12 minutes.
Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho, along with other estimates from scientific studies wrote:there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells
scientificamerican.com
Don’t you wish you’d never taught me to use html? 😆
Mike.Re: Now ASDA are at it.
Not sure what your point is Mike, I am well aware that without the many millions of certain types of bacteria we would not survive but I am talking about getting clothes properly clean.
The normal sweat stains from the average person cannot be properly removed in 12 minutes either.
In Martins example most of the washing in the old twin tubs was done with very hot or nearly boiling water, granted modern detergents negate the need for that these days. He does not however factor in the five minutes it took you to untangle the clothes from a Hoovermatic. 😉
The simple fact is that a large part of the public will think they can do every single load at 12 minutes and will attempt so to do. :rolls:
Thats of course if it runs for 12 minutes before breaking down. 😛
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Sorry Jim, I’m afraid we’ll have to disagree. I think a 12 minute wash would do well enough for many items which haven’t started to pong. Realistically, in my experience, that would be 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} or more of what all the people I know load up with. You have to remember that doing the washing is such a simple & effortless task nowadays that people actually enjoy doing it. It gives them a sense of having their lives under control, at least in that one aspect. And so they wash more stuff than they really need to.
If what you say about the, “large part of the public” is true, it doesn’t matter, they will learn soon enough to keep the more soiled items for a different programme. Only difficulty will be for those who are unwilling or unable to devote the time to sorting the washing, and they will no doubt continue with their former habits.
I’ll wager that we’ll see more brands taking up the challenge and introducing their own versions of, “advanced technology in the service of the environment” in the near future.
Mike.Re: Now ASDA are at it.
it doesnt actually state how much water the 12 min cycle uses does it? plus it doesnt say the 12 mins includes a spin?
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Think customers would feel a bit ripped off if something was described as a cycle but didn’t include a spin.
It sounds like they’ve rehashed the Zan jetsystem and simply added an extra pipe so it sprays over the washing from two directions at once. We’ll have to wait and see. Or, not see if we’re lucky.
Mike.Re: Now ASDA are at it.
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Think customers would feel a bit ripped off if something was described as a cycle but didn’t include a spin.
They’ll feel more ripped off when they find out it’s not a proper wash Mike.
The blurb does say that it’s for “lightly soiled items”.
The definition of “lightly soiled” is, worn once, not next to skin.
Which would be a cardigan if you had a long sleeved top on underneath and, errr, that’s about it really. Washing anything else, it won’t be cleaned properly.
And they wonder why they have skin irritation issues… :rolls:
K.
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