So we should be washing our pants at 60 degrees.

[BenWillbondsPants]

This morning cleaning expert says our pants should be washed at 60 degrees. How does that work then? If you've to wash the rest of your gear (apart from towels etc which I wouldn't wash with ma pants anyway) at a lower temp, are we just supposed to save up 50 pairs of dirty pants until you have a full load of dirty knickers? It's all very confusing you know ...

The key question to ask is
How big is the risk?
How big is the cost?

As is I said earlier - just imagine the impact in terms of energy usage and the environment if nearly 3 billion people started doing their laundry at 60 degrees Celsius???

The horror about scary bacteria has been sold to us by the capitalist manufacturers who simply want to sell us more STUFF through fear

Bacteria are essential to our lives. None of would be alive if it were for the trillions of bacteria inside us and crawling all over us.

I do make sure the hook and eye bra fastenings are done up inside itself (inside pillow case) iyswim so it doesn't ruin other clothes by catching on them

But this "expert" was

LaurieFairyCake l'm exactly the same. And l've managed to get to 60 just fine and dandy.
l do like to dry my flimsies on the line if the weather's decent, though.

I wash everything together at 40. I seperate darks and whites but thats it.

The only thing ours gets separated by is darks and lights. Everything gets washed at 50 and bras/tights get shoved in a little zip up net bag

Ridiculous. Cleaning 'experts' - Hinch and the like included - are just fuelling more spending, more stress, time wasting and most importantly a massive fecking environmental disaster with extra use of energy, chemicals and water.

I'm fairly houseproud, but you can be that without 60 degree pant washes.

I wash our towels and underwear together, on "hot." I have no clue what the actual temperature is. My older washer I could select a small load size, but the new one weighs the load and decides how much water to use.

Well I'm actually dead. A goner from Fannibugitis, terrible it was. Once a "knicker" touched a "T towel" at 30oC... BOOM!!!

Bodies everywhere, the whole street was wiped out BE WARNED.

Bloody hell, all my clothes including pants go on at 30 degrees.

I do only wear my pants once before washing though . Perhaps the "expert" wears theirs longer.

Everyone's worried about pants not being washed at 60 but does that mean you wash your DP's mouths out with hot hot water after oral? Ain't no one eating their own under crackers so wtaf is the issue. Life's too short to separate pants ffs. Unless you've got campylobactor and you shit yourself - in which case just throw the pants away.

Shocking @nakedscientist.
Were there any survivors to sell the sad faced story to the Daily Fail?

Ladies. The only way to prevent fannybugitis and the certainty of death is to hang your frillies on the washing line and douse with petrol before setting fire to them.
You know it makes sense.

We was always told at college to wash our underwear and uniform on a 60 as it gets rid of bacteria in hot water 40 isn't hot enough.

I do towels/bed linen, and DP’s work shirts at 60. Everything else at 40, just whacked in together unless it’s something like new black jeans which are likely to leak dye.

I do wear a clean bra every day though.

Was that in a medical setting, Anita? Hospital superbugs are a whole different kettle of fish to most people’s normal environment.

We generally wash on 30 but every now and then if something starts not smelling so clean I will do a 40 wash and rub laundry liquid into the pits of any offending items etc. DD, I do her loads separately and that used to all get washed on 60 because of poo and urine leaks. She's 13 months and ive just started doing hers on 30 now too as I just realised recently we haven't actually had any such leaks for about a month anyway. So will just wash on 60 if she does have leaky clothes in the load and as it's rare now I would remember. I wash towels, tea towels and bedding together and all on 60. But I don't feel strongly about other people washing on less.

I stopped separating lights and darks a while ago. I clocked that most things had been washed many times, and were unlikely to be clinging onto that last little tiny bit of colour that would suddenly be let go during a lights wash, thus ruining everything forever.

So I stopped doing it. Everything comes out completely fine, unsurprisingly.

I wash most stuff at 40° and bedding, towels and cleaning cloths/mop heads, etc. at 60°, with non-bio. (I have some emergency bio, in case of rare sickness bugs.) However, I like to get at least 2 or 3 wears (I could easily wear the same pair of jeans for over a week!) out of every item of clothing, apart from underwear and socks. If I only wore something once or twice, then I probably would wash on 30° mostly.

I wear bras 3-6 days before washing by the way.

I don’t know about all this advice and what everybody else does but no matter what temperature I use I still shrink DH’s t-shirts and have been doing a sterling job of it for over 20 years. Nobody else complaints about this strange phenomena in my house and I haven’t met anyone in RL admitting to having the same problem.

I will not be washing my fanny at 60c.
Ouch!

this makes me unreasonably cross. Competitive cleaning is bad for everyone - the environment, the people who feel compelled to douche with zoflora because they think a tea towel germ has touched their fanny (or the other way around? Fuck knows) and they are now lessened as a human, and the rest of society, because people are taking time doing pointless things rather than productive ones. Everyone loses.

Woman spoke tosh and talk about overusing machines youd be washing forever if youseprated literally everything

Why on earth are these self-proclaimed 'experts' being given so much publicity? Is there a sucking eggs expert, I'm sure I'm doing it incorrectly!

I wash normally dirty clothes on 30. is this too low for underwear, they seem clean enough, but am I harbouring nasty bugs?

Everything here goes in a cold wash, all in together, then hung out in the sun. No-one gets sick. In my defence, I do boil teatowels and dishcloths from time to time.