Kitchen appliances chat

In my experience of using them, I’ve never actually received the dry clothes, just hot and still mostly wet ones

Hmm… Our 3 year old Bosch washer dryer that I bought second hand from someone ‘on here’ dries really well…

Everything does come out crinkled like David Dickinson’s perineum tho.

My zanussi one gets stuff dry too but takes a while.

A load of underwear will probably take 1.5 hours. Full set of bedclothes 2.5 hours. Full load of clothes 2.5-3 hours

Do they come out bleached then mahogany tanned as well?

These are the Which? Best Buy options, the 5 Haier models tested score between 63-67%. If there’s specific model(s) I can look them up and send over.

Possibly also of interest, from Ethical Consumer mag, shopping guide for washing machines - presumably info is transferable for washer-dryers;

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Could you fit a ceiling mounted drying rack/airer and use a small dehumidifier instead of a tumble dryer?
This is my plan over the next few weeks in the laundry

Yes, works well in a small enough space, with the correct type of dehumidifier. Cheaper than tumble drying, much nicer for clothes. Takes the best part of a day for the average load tho.

Most modern washer dryers have sensors to determine when your garms are dry enough, then stop the cycle automatically.

Champion!

This is what we did, dehumidifier and a foxydry airing rack. It has been a huge improvement to our existence, getting rid of a clothes rack on our landing and getting things tidied up and it is a low current option. Things hung carefully come out flat and only a few items need ironing.

The only reason i would like a crumple fryer would be to reactivate DWR on garments.

Ta. No way I'd lose the tumble dryer. There are too many occasions that we need last minute pe kits or cleaning my down sleeping bag.

Just need to find the right airer now

https://www.foxydry.com/en-gb

we got the tower https://www.foxydry.com/en-gb/products/foxydry-tower

They are amazing. I'd need the ceiling version though so. £££

Go golf club or fuck the fuck off! 🤣😈

Did that with the 57k kitchen.

Utility room is being done on the cheap

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Sounds like you've got kids though.

We're no longer doing a wash every day. More like 1-2 every 3 or 4 days. That simply isn't possible over winter without a tumble dryer to take out 90% of kids clothes and 20% of adult clothes. Even doing the cold or lowest setting still takes a meaningful amount of water out.

But if you've got a dedicated laundry room James' dehumidified room is a neat idea, so provided you can fit one in

Anyway my question...

You know on Bake Off they have those fuck off big mixing things for baking? Is there a compact one that can be stowed away in a normal persons house?

Cheers.

I stick the stuff on a clothes horse (lives under the bed) with a dehumidifier and close the door for clothes drying. Unless your house is really cold or the room it is in is big then it will dry overnight. Obviously not the dream of a laundry room and I use a dryer for underwear but you can't have everything.

On mixers, I have one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DY9LHWG
much more compact than a stand mixer and packs away neatly. Seems to do everything a big mixer can and had good reviews everywhere.

Saying that, I use it nowhere near as much as I anticipated so it's a good job it fits in a cupboard neatly.

Anyway, what I actually came here to ask was about air purifiiers.

We've no carpet in the house so gets dusty quickly, particularly if the windows are open.

Do these air purifier things do much for the whole house or are they really just going to be purifying the room that they are sat in? It sitting on the landing and drawing in the dust from the whole house seems a bit optimistic even if they talk about 130sqm coverage.

This kind of thing
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shark-NeverChange5-Allergens-including-HP150UK/dp/B0CRHV7Q3J/258-2479568-9772734

There was chat in the owning your own home thread, maybe have a search of that thread.

mixers

Cheers!

A kitchenaid right? They're not that big, though of course depends how much you use it and how big your kitchen it.

I suppose the alternative is a hand mixer but it's not going to have the right paddles or enough chooch.

I suppose the alternative is a hand mixer but it's not going to have the right paddles or enough chooch.

Is pretty much the thing. We get by with a metal bowl and a cheapo hand mixer (I think it was £10 from Sainsbury's).

A KitchenAid like the above would make various things easier, but not sure "various things easier" is worth ~£400. We're also short on worktop space as it is. There's a cupboard it could sit on when not in use but that's less than ideal. Definitely no cupboard space for it to sit in.

We make cookies once a week (for daughter's football team) and with a KitchenAid I'd be more likely to make bread more often.

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stowed

£400 and that size is an absolute no.

We make do with a electric wand hand mixer. Annoyingly my eldest destroyed the speed actuation during covid at our peak baking. It's fine, but when my OH bakes it's a bit limiting so if there was something like the link above that can pack into itself but be better.

Like say butter icing (I think) aren't you meant to beat it slowly for 10m or something? Absolutely thrashing it at full speed while juggling the angle to stop the contents flying everywhere is an arse.

And cheers on the typo.

I'm no expert (and haven't used it for much other than dough) but Which rated that compact one highly (and it's £100)

These kMix ones seem to be the best cheaper one
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-Stylish-Kitchen-K-beater-Removable/dp/B072175JWB

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