Not OP but i just found an answer. Top loaders may have a center agitator which is there to … agitate more – which we don’t want to do.
Any machine that is without a center agitator will be more gentle on clothes and less likely to cause shrinking due to fiber damage and consolidation. If you have a top-loading washer with a center agitator, reduce its impact on your garments by opting for a gentle or hand-wash cycle.
(from the same link that i posted in another comment)
Venat0r@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Front loaders are generally gentler on clothes because they only spin and don’t oscilate at all. Also they don’t have a spiny tube thingy in the middle.
haulyard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Many top loaders don’t have the tube in the center.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah but the concept is still the same. Top loaders submerge and scrub, front loaders dunk.