Comment on when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean?

schwim@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not a binary clean/not-clean thing. The sock will be tumbled around in water with the other clothes as it’s being dried.

  The sock will be clean-ER than it was when it was on the floor. The sock won’t be AS clean as the rest of the clothes in the drier.

  Depending on how dirty the sock started out, this may be all that matters. We don’t know how sweaty or stained the sock started out. We don’t know how clean this person requires their sock to be.

  Would I do it? No, I prefer my socks to be cleaner than that, and my socks get kinda stinky after I wear them. But someone that mostly wore them around the house and never actually put those socks into shoes? It’s probably fine.

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  • hyperion626@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A sock out of a washing machine is clean but wet. Once dry it will be a clean sock.

    A dirty sock that got wet will still be a dirty sock once dried. The dirty didn’t go anywhere.

    Please feel free to try this yourself to verify.

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