On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:54:23 UTC, alan_m wrote:
On 13/12/2017 01:06, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
alan_m wrote:
But you would have to actually boil your cloths for minutes to kill the
all bacteria and machines don't reach those temperatures. Part of the
washing cycle is hanging out the cloths to dry/air.

Do you actually have to boil to kill bacteria?


Temperature, a quick google suggests 102C stops them reproducing, 120C+
kills them.
Lower temperatures can be used but may require the temperature to be
kept at that level for an hour.

You can also zap them chemically - chlorine in your cold water supply
for instance.

I wonder how they'd survive in a microwave oven.
Probbly be OK on defrost ;-)