I saw that there are now single appliances that wash your clothes and then switch to “drying” mode and dry your clothes, oh brave new world.
Or put another way, there are now single appliances that make it so you don’t open your washer and discover the mildewed clothing you never put in the dryer last weekend.
I got all excited, and began planning some way I could off my 20-year-old washer and dryer in favor of one of these new conjoined creatures, but then remembered: whatever became of those combo refrigerators that switched to oven mode a few years back?
I can’t find exactly what I pictured: A 40-degree box where you would put a raw casserole, which would act as a refrigerator umtil 5:30, and then it would begin heating up until the food was cooked, and the temperature would go down until it was a refrigerator for the leftovers again.
I did find this, which is the same concept only in the sous-vide form.
Of course, they all have the same curse: if your refrigerator/washer breaks, then your stove/dryer is out too.
Nice to know about for when I am old and streamlined, though.
2 responses to “TWIL: Washer and Dryer in One.”
I actually have a friend who got one of these about 2 months ago and she loves it! That said, she’s happily single, so doesn’t have a lot of laundry, but even she says this the one (small for her) drawback is that it takes so much longer to do each load. That would be so annoying, but what a space saver!
Lisa – What happens if she just wants to dry something, like some towels she used to clean up fresh water or get the rainwater off her head? Can she just skip to the drying part? And what about delicates she doesn’t want to put in the dryer (bras, talking about bras here)?