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 ...

How have we ever survived as the human race for thousands of years without automatic washing machines, Ariel liquipods and washing everything at 60 degrees with a splash of Dettol just in case?

Why have we not died out?

I was at 30, I'm still alive!

@Medicaltextbook - unless you have recurrent infections that you can’t fathom the cause of, you’re doing fine.

Surely it buggers the elastic?

It does. I try an alternate 60 & 40 degree wash of pants and towels but am definitely helping Marks & Spencer’s profits (or reducing losses). They do look tatty very quickly.

I have a terrible confession.

Today I washed my face with a flannel. Then, whilst holding the flannel, I looked at the toilet and wiped the toilet.

I then threw this flannel (with gay but heteronormative abandon) into a 30• wash. With knickers, tea towels, towels, a nylon dog collar. I just threw it in.

I didn't even use biological powder or fabric conditioner. I used Tesco colour powder and - white vinegar.

I then climbed heftily onto my kitchen worktop and steamed my fanny over the kettle.

I do pants and towels on 60 otherwise they smell. Everything else on 40, 30 or cold, depending on the label.

@ThighsRelief

Thank you for making me laugh.

I hope you added Zoflora to said kettle for a refreshingly scented germ free fanjo experience.

The trouble with experts is that they spend so long focusing on their tiny niche that they can’t see the bigger picture. They are barely aware there is a bigger picture, hence the talking bollocks.

A quick rinse and squeeze over the sink every 2 weeks.....whether or not they need it! 😁

Thigh I think you should have your own show on morning TV.

That'd teach 'em.

I wash coloureds and darks at 50, whites at 60, towels and bedding at 70/80 depending on rankness or sometimes 90 if is skanky teenager bedding. Sue me.

I thought this obsession with eradicating germs was the cause of all the superbugs?

Nearly everything goes in at 30. 60 wash after illness.

OMG @ThighsRelief
You steamed your fanny without zoflora?? Were you meant to be having fish for tea and got confused between the two in your gay abandoning?

I do recall my grandmother boiling grandads grundies on the hob for a good hour ...back in the 70's, but then that was Pre-Lycra era nevermind biological powders.

I wash everything on 40. I used to wash towels and bedding on 60 but high thread count sheets all shrunk!!
Pants washed at 60 would go baggy and elastic would be ruined.
Socks shrink at 40 quite often I find. All these people washing clothes at 60 or above, do your clothes not shrink?

the care labels on clothes, etc are usually 30-40. i havent seen any 60.

In Ye Olden Days people always boiled their undies and many of them have since died

Just saying.

Everything chucked in together and washed at 30 in my house. We don’t have a laundry basket, everything goes straight in the machine and when it’s full it goes on.

Nappies and baby wipes (cloth) at 60. Everything else at 40.

I do towels and tea towels at 60° mainly because the 60° wash has the 1400 spin so dry quicker. Also have read it takes 60° to kill germs. Pants and pajamas are washed at 40 or 50 with Napisan. Also apparently sunlight will also kill germs. And with regard to bedding well that's my guilty pleasure as they go to the laundrette and I have no idea what temp they are washed at. Also I believe ironing will kill off germs as well but that ship has sailed in our house.

Absolutely everything in the washer at 30, then in the dryer. Only ever surf pink capsules. And I’m broken, but not dead yet!!

I am the child of a mother who cannot let her ‘proper’ clothes get darked on, but it’s ok with undies. And Xmas day is off limits obviously.

The fabrics & trims that most pants are made of won't stand up well to a repeated 60 degree wash. I can only guess that this "expert" is on commission from underwear manufacturers.

Here delicate stuff like pants go in a hand wash cycle 🤷‍♀️

Washing machines in Japan only use cold water and I haven't heard that the Japanese population has been wiped out by an epidemic of cool-washed knicker germs.

Yes, it's really true! Our washing powders are probably a bit different and a washing load does take longer to wash, but it works fine. Nobody has typhus in our house and we don't smell.

And you even re-use the bath water (using a sort of hose attachment that filters out any grot and siphons it into the washing machine.

We live on a farm so fuck knows what ends up on my trousers.

This is my favorite line on this thread. I keep re-reading it and making little insane giggling noises.

My mum told my she used to boil my nappies in a pan on the stove for 8 hours. I'm not apologising for shitting my pants.