How do you separate laundry?

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So.. need some honest opinions here. I posted a comment on a previous thread mentioning that washing tea towels together with knickers is gross IMO. Received quite a few comments telling me I'm uptight and bizarre. I honestly think that even if you wash them at 90 degrees, you still shouldn't mix tea towels and underwear. Am I in minority then thinking this? Genuinely curious.

I do a whites wash, and an everything else wash 🤷‍♀️

I do:

Sheets and pillowcases
Bath towels, hand towels and tea towels.
Whites
Darks and blacks
Colours
Delicates
Pets bedding
Cleaning cloths

Why mix tea towels with towels you’ve wiped your body with? Tea towels should be washed separately!

But the OP washes pants and pjs on a 60, tea towels on a 60 but refuses to put them in the same 60 degree wash.

60 either kills the bacteria or it doesn't. It's not a case of it does but it doesn't if a tea towel is placed in there.

Where is this universal law or scientific guidance that means tea towels need to have their own seperate 60 degree wash? Can you link the info that recommends this for a typical domestic house.

Whilst your doing that, can you also find the research that supports that adding a tea towel to a 60 degree wash that contains other clothing items, means the washing machine fails and therefore thw tea towel eradicates the 60 degree wash.

Good housekeeping recommends:
While in theory there’s no harm in washing a lightly used tea towel in with your bath towels, generally they’re best kept separate. In fact, the Food Standards Agency recommends cloths, tea towels, aprons and oven gloves are washed separately from other laundry.

If you bothered yourself to read the FSA recommendations, they base this on heavily soiled tea towels. How dirty are your tea towels? Why are you not changing them daily? Tea towels are for drying up wet dishes, pans and cutlery, nothing else.

Cloths should be used for wiping spills.

And you STILL can't answer why tea towels can't go in a wash with other things on a 60 degree wash? Why do you think 60 degrees kills bacteria on pants and pjs together. 60 degrees kills bacteria on tea towels but doesn't kill bacteria all on the same wash?

And no "because they shouldn't swirl around together because of poo" isn't an answer.

With your logic I could mop up my toddlers pee with a tea towel (potty training) wash it at 60 then use it to dry my dishes. Does that still sound OK to you? I seriously shudder

Bacteria remaining on pjs is not the same as bacteria remaining on a tea towel used to dry cutlery and crockery- it’s pretty obvious. A 60 wash won’t eliminate bacteria either, and many are now using 30 or cold water, so all the more reason to wash tea towels separately.

I'm not sure if you saw a previous comment where someone said they wash tea towels in a nappy wash. I'm still thinking about it....

If you actually read the recommendations it says lightly soiled. Do you know what that means?

But why would you put them in with poo, pee and whatever else and mix them around with it when it can easily be avoided? They can be cleaned without the extra (disgusting) bodily excrement

I will ta. The bodily fluids will continue to swirl around as you say as part of them being entirely washed out and everything will continue to clean.

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If you think it's not clean after a 60 wash, why aren't you washing them at 90?

Objectively it's either clean or it's not.

I don't understand why pyjamas and knickers are clean after a 60 wash, but teatowels are never clean after a 60 wash even if in separately.

Or pyjamas and knickers are not clean but it's ok to wear them?
Do you all do a drum wash after every wash too?

I will add I've not got little kids missing the potty so I wouldnt use a teatowel to clean up, I had old cloths specifically for the purpose of cleaning up spills etc.

Also wondering if napisan will keep my whites white longer. Becayse I'm all for that.

White, colours, black.

Will do towels- bath and tea and bedding together at 60c

Tea towels and clothes does feel yucky/ though have done it some times

Tend to wash one load per day (ave), in separate groups:

Hot wash sheets, towels and tea towels.
Dry in sun.

Hot wash knickers and white/light clothing.
Dry in sun.

Warm wash brights.
Dry inside out, in sun.

Warm wash darks.
Dry inside out in sun.

Warm wash dirty. (gardening, paint specks, work, or pre-soaked) Dry in sun.

Cool wash delicates and woollens.
Dry outside, flat, out of sunlight.

NRTFT
I wash towels and tea towels together as they don't get softener and I sometimes put them in a hotter wash.
I wash underwear in a separate load because I hate doing it and save it up, I hate socks being mixed up with other clothes.
I wash whites separately.
Then jeans, leggings and dog walking clothes together.
I'm a weirdo with washing.

Very enlightening.

I separate stuff firstly into "will need ironing" and "won't need ironing"

Each is then split white/coloured.

Bedding is a separate load.

Towels, including tea towels, have their own load.

Everything gets a quick 60 degree wash, around 45 minutes.

But your washing tea towels on a 60 and pjs and pants on a 60 but refuse to wash the two together and can't answer why. They will all come out equally clean.

If you read her comment she just answered you. Why you keep asking the same thing?

No. You've decided to create that situation on your own logic.

Tea towels should be used for drying your washing up or drying things that are still wet after going through the dishwasher. They shouldn't be used for anything else.

If you did wipe your toddlers wee up with a tea towel and washed it at 60, why do you think it wouldn't be clean if 60 degrees kills bacteria?

I separate it by how much fits in the drum. Whatever doesn’t fit goes in a separate load. 😂

I know exactly what lightly soiled means. I also know what kills bacteria and how washing machines work, a concept lost on some here.

But you or the other poster haven't actually answered my question.

What you both keep doing is inventing ficticious situations and actually avoiding the question.

It's really quite bizarre.