That laundry detergent PSA kind of blew my mind. I had no idea we could use so little. Though admittedly I use the Tidepods and only 1 per load, hopefully the ratio for that is equivalent.
They need to specify for high efficiency washers. For old school washing machines they use far more water so it dilutes everything. I presume you’d need a bit more than that for non he washers. I guess it’s best to just check with the manufacturers instructions
FYI...if your front load clothes washer has a sour odor, try switching to powder. There is something in liquid detergents that keep it "liquid" that can sour after a wash and create the odor. I tried ALL the things people recommend, including wiping the door and seals down, using "cleaning" tablets, etc. Some of these machines have a little door that conceals a filter and drain tube. The tube allows you to remove a small amount of the water that is designed to remain in these machines after it "drains". Even after removing this water, the sour odor remained. Switching to powder ended the odor immediately. This was several years ago. I don't even bother wiping it down or draining the water anymore. Zero odors 👍🏼
@@joshuamast5128 cool. It's a common complaint that started when these front load types of washers that hold a small amount of water in them between washes became more prevalent. The water sours.
@@jimbanville the water left is in the drain hose and pump area it shouldn’t make the whole washer stink about power detergent it has bleach in it so it helps with bacteria but it doesn’t dissolve properly and builds up I always leave the door open and detergent droor and do the maintenance the manual says very religiously
@@joshuamast5128 MyLG has a little door in front/bottom where u can drain the left over water if necessary. It's nearly a quart. Doing all the bleach, wiping down, door open, etc things didn't work. Swapping to powder eliminated all my odor issues. The left over water no longer sours. I don't even bother wiping down etc. I'm so thankful I found out about using powder! I wanted to throw this washer away. Lol.
You might want to put the other things in the thumbnail too - I already knew how much laundry detergent to use, and only clicked because it was wirecutter. Might get more reach if it looks like it's not only about laundry detergent.
Ryan Garcia: Advocates for B sample to be tested even though they were taken at the same time and enforces the idea that it'll be different. Ryan Garcia: Surprised when they are both the same and that people are treating it as a different test which is his fault.
A teaspoon for a sink of water sounds absurd. So imagine two tablespoons for a washer full of water. I dont care how concentrated it is it will not clean my clothes im sorry
While I agree with most of this, the laundry detergent amount is subjective. Yes the manufacturer wants you to use more than needed so that you will purchase more detergent more often. That being said, you need to first look at the type of machine you are using. Front loaders take less detergent, they use less water (which isn't always a good thing) and therefore if you overload the machine with detergent it will either not work or eventually will ruin your machine and laundry. Upright washers on the other hand use more water and do require a bit more product to do the job. You probably still don't need a whole capful, if your clothes are that dirty or smelly you might want to wash them twice. One wash cycle can only do so much.
The problem is that I'm not using a tablespoon to measure my laundry detergent 😵💫. What's a better / more convenient way to actually measure how much detergent you're using?
Take the detergent cap (or whatever you use to measure), put 1 tablespoon of water in it, and mark the level with a Sharpie. Mark on the outside of the cap so you don't lose the mark. I'm curious if the 1 TBSP is for front loaders only, or both top and front loaders. I have a top loader.
@@lizcademy4809 I think the 1-2 tablespoon is for he front loaders. They use way less water according to my manual my front loader uses approx 65 litres compared to my old top loader which uses around 180-200 litres. If I used 1-2 tablespoon on my old school top loader the detergent would be way too diluted to works. And would be like washing with water only plus the heavily soiled clothes would still smell. Plus if you use to much in the FL it’s harder to rinse out properly and you can still see some residue in the rinse cycles.
You do realize you can buy a set of measuring spoons at the dollar store though, right? You don’t have to buy the Rachel Ray brand to measure detergent.
@Wirecutter: Using only one drop of dish soap, and when it lose the foam, that mean your cleaning with durty water, and since you have to drain it, and refile your wasting water, and more dish soap since you would have to do another drop to continued cleaning. And wasteing water depend on where you live, if you live in a Country then it is wasteing water, while in a City, the water gets recycle with chemical, and the water gets purified again, if that is truth, if that is not truth, then your wasting water
I do not agree with you on the laundry detergent and here’s why. If they wanted us to use such little laundry detergent, then why do they make the caps so big? Why does the cap have measurements on the cap itself? Why do powder detergents include measurements on the scoop? Yet despite using almost a cap full of oxy clean, I can never seem to get the stains out of my clothes and the clothes still looks dirty when I take it out. But you want me to use less because supposedly less is more. I don’t know how that can be possible or how that can work especially for a large load of laundry. Also, in reference to the toilet bowl cleaner, it doesn’t matter how much or how little I use. Those stains are stuck in there pretty good and I don’t think they’re ever coming out of my toilet. So I really don’t know what to say in terms of.
You can buy a pumice stone for cleaning toilets if needed. I keep meaning to get my friend one. But his is different than other stains. There's a mold or something inside the ring where the water comes out & is causing a weird ring. There is a way to kill that off I've just forgotten how. It's on RU-vid. But I think 1-2 runs around the toilet with cleaner is fine if it's kept clean more often. I still end up putting more in & letting it sit though. Mostly because I don't feel up to cleaning very much at times. Also I just forget & I'm the only person using it anyway. As for dishes yeah no. Even Dawn Platinum requires a bit more than that. As for laundry soap I do use less than it calls for but not that little. I vary the amount by how much I'm washing & what I'm washing. Also if you have a lot of pet hair use more dryer sheets placed throughout the wet laundry. Although honestly I just need to give in & buy the astronaut helmet cat muzzle so I can finally bath them.
I bet your country let pets sleep on the bed though which is pretty germy when you think about it. I don't wear dirty shoes in the house and don't put shoes on the bed either, so its not all households.
I do not wear shoes in the house. I foster kittens and they could end up getting horrible diseases from my shoes. Even though I clean and disinfect my shoes every month or so I can’t take that chance
@@oliviawhisper you are worried about your cats getting sick. They are not like us, they can eat from floor, drink dirty water and lick ass and still fine. It’s disgusting living with animal’s mostly dogs. We take a bath and wear fresh clothes. They don’t they lay on floor and walk with shoes and goes to your furniture. You pet them and many don’t wash their hands after. Pass a wet tissue on their fur and see how disgusting the wet tissue will have from all the rolling on floor.
@@Agnes.Nutter no one puts shoes on their bed, but i have met and seen people who sleep on their bed with their shoes on. I find wearing shoes in the house gross but this is a next level grossness. I dont get how people can live like slobs
You waste more water wetting, washing, rinsing, unless you are shutting the water off in between each step and somehow effectively rinsing the dishes without using any more than required for rinsing. In our travel trailer, we fill one side with soapy water and then rinsing once all the dishes from the sink are washed and sitting in the other side of the sink, then we rinse. We go through water less that way. Putting soapy water in a small dish is great for if you only have an item or two to wash rather than just letting the water run down the drain while you wash and rinse them, but if you're washing a sink full, this method is best. It's even better if you fill one side just an inch or so with soapy water, add smaller things like cutlery. Wash. As you rinse, rinse rinse over the side with the soapy water, so your rinse water adds to your soapy water to continue to wash larger items, then no water is being wasted while you rinse, until the sink is full enough for your biggest items. Then even less water is wasted during the rinsing process.
I have a dishwasher, but I don't use it a lot. So I'm often washing only a couple dishes at a time, not a whole sink full. I put 1-2 drops of detergent on my Dobie pad, scrunch it to get lather, then wash my dish. I won't add more detergent until there are no suds left in the pad. My dishes end up just as clean as if I used a full squirt - and it takes less water to rinse the detergent off.
