11/15/2023 0 Comments Tide laundry detergent pods![]() ![]() In that case, just throw the thing back in the wash. Now, hopefully you realized you had a melted pod sitch on your hands before the item went into the dryer, because it will be much, much easier to get the stain out if the garment in question hasn't been exposed to a dryer's high heat. It's pretty easy, actually: Just re-wash the stained garment. How to Remove Stains Caused by Detergent Pods So let's move right along to the triage part of the festivities. Of course, telling you all that now doesn't really help you out of the jam you've already found yourself in. And that's a thing you shouldn't be doing because, while it may save you a load of laundry, your clothes and sheets and towels and Taekwondo togs aren't actually getting clean if they're so jammed up in the machine that there's no space for the water and detergent to fully penetrate their fibers. If you know that the pod needs some room to move around in order to fully dissolve, you will be much less likely to overstuff the washing machine. You're already so much better at laundry!īut it's really on that second point when the power of the pod can make you so much better at laundry. Enter the pod, which takes all of that guesswork out of the equation because you MUST (I'm shouting again so you'll remember!) put a pod into the drum of the washing machine, regardless of whether it's a top- or front-loader (HE included), before the load goes in. But a lot of people don't do that, either because they were taught differently or because they're unaware of how their particular machine is meant to operate. Now, the correct practice is that one puts detergent of the liquid or powder variety either in the detergent dispensing compartments (when using a front loader), or in the drum of the machine prior to putting in the laundry (when using a top-loader). If you overstuff the machine, you're going to be much more likely to end up with a melted pod situation.They go into the drum of the machine before the laundry.The thing is, though, that the order of operations becomes wildly important when dealing with a detergent pod-and it actually becomes another area where the use of pods leads to better laundering practices. So, pods can actually make you better at laundry by taking out the very human instinct that makes us think that more detergent = more clean. Skip the Dry Cleaner and Wash Your Shirts at Home.But I finally made the switch, in part because I'm laundromat-dependent and they truly do make my life so much easier (as you might imagine, I do a lot of laundry.) I was one much like our Letter Writer, in that I clung to my liquid laundry detergent out of both habit and out of a sense of skepticism about those pods. It also lets me evangelize a little bit about the use of pods more generally, which I shall do first. ![]() ![]() Also, you're doing the rest of the greater laundering public a favor by giving me an excuse to talk about the proper use of detergent pods. It's OK though, because it's not a huge goof. I have to tell you that, yeah, you messed up. This is a super easy fix, seriously! But before we get into what to do about a melted detergent pod situation, I have to do something I don't love doing. I'M SHOUTING AT YOU BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT MELTED DETERGENT PODS ARE NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. It's the black-trimmed black-belt one with patches sewn onto it, so it's, like, $60 to replace. Anyway, the pod didn't dissolve or something and now it's baked into the shirt of my son's Taekwondo dobak. Also, I had bought those detergent pods this time because there was a sale and I like a good deal. I have resisted detergent pods for years because they seem wasteful, and I like to use the same liquid detergent my clothes have been washed in since my mom did laundry when I was a kid.Īnyway, to the point, I was in a hurry and didn't want to wash too many loads of laundry and I overfilled the washer (I know). I tend to do household chores the old (probably wrong) ways I've been doing them since I was a kid, both because I'm a full-time, single, very busy dad, and also because I'm a bit lazy/impatient/set-in-my-ways. Are you still dirty? Subscribe to Ask a Clean Person: The Podcast on Acast, iTunes or Stitcher, and like Ask a Clean Person on Facebook. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. ![]()
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