World of Washers

From freep.com:

"Whirlpool Corp., the world's largest appliance maker, was accused of false advertising for claiming its Duet Steam clothes dryers use steam to clean and dry apparel, in a lawsuit by a unit of Korea's LG Electronics Inc.

"The case revolves around the precise definition of steam. Whirlpool dryers use a cold water mist, not steam, injected into the machine for 60 seconds, then heated by the dryer's rotating drum, lawyers for LG Electronics USA claim in a complaint filed in Chicago federal court Thursday. LG says its dryers inject water heated to 212 degrees, the boiling point, while water in Whirlpool dryers never gets that hot."

In my previous post, I questioned whether or not the Duet dryer actually uses steam in the operation of the dryer. Clearly, it does not. And this justifies my criticism of Whirlpool from an earlier post.

So I guess the alternative of throwing in a damp sock, or spraying wrinkly clothes with an empty Windex bottle, isn't really all that different from what the Whirlpool Duet SteamDryer does, eh?