"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Its amazing to me how we have got to this washing program place. When I
was young we had a twin tub and it all seemed to be easy, obviously more
manual work was involved to some extent, but I do not remember the
clothing coming out any less clean than now.

Is this all a lot of hype to sell more different washing products at
higher prices and to make machines far more complicated?

Nope, modern machines do use much less water and are
much easier to use, just chuck the clothes in and take them
out later when it says its finished. Some not only wash the
clothes, they dry them too. Your twin tub never did that.

"harry" wrote in message
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On Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:42:21 UTC, Scott wrote:
If I use pre-wash on a 60 degree wash programme, what temperature is
the pre-wash likely to be? My understanding is that the pre-wash
should be at a lower temperature using biological detergent with lots
of pauses before moving on to the main wash, where biological
detergent should not be needed due to the temperature.

On most machines, just cold water.
Ideal for removing caked on mud (eg football jerseys)