Review of my new Trump-disapproved washing machine
A few days ago, Donald Trump gave a speech at the Whirlpool washing machine plant in Ohio. There we learned things like "washers that comply with the current federal water use standard don't get your clothes clean" and that the orange color of his face is caused by use of compact fluorescent light bulbs (which, in case you didn't know, generate a huge amount of green light) and not the orange corrective concealer he applies to his whole face.
It just so happened that when I read that revelation, I had just come back from buying an Electrolux 627 laundry pair. This unit complies with Obama-era water rules. It arrived two days ago and I've washed pretty much everything in the house with it.
Executive summary: As usual, our ersatz president is full of shit. This machine is powerful enough to wash the evil out of Donald Trump's heart.
It's a washing machine. You stick clothes in it, put soap in it, and push a button. It beeps at you when it's done. Nothing too unusual.
This washer is about as computerized as the Space Shuttle. It uses that power to get you the most clean with the least water.
The laundry products drawer has five compartments. Three are fairly normal: detergent, fabric softener and liquid bleach. The fourth one is the "StainSoak" compartment. If you, say, have a kid who plays baseball and brings home uniforms covered in grass stains, you can fill this with more detergent for a powerful presoak. The fifth is the "Pods" compartment. If you like to use Tide Pods, you don't have to put them in the tub like on lesser washers; on this you stick the pod in the drawer, push the "pods" button, and a jet of hot water will dissolve the pod. If you select "pods," it will retain that setting until you turn it off by hand. The regular detergent cup will accept either liquid or powdered detergents.
As for detergent use, this machine does it a little different: there is a tank at the bottom of the machine. Instead of pouring soap right on your clothes and hoping the water stirs it around like most washers do, it pumps the detergent into the tank, adds the rest of the water for the cycle, mixes them, and pumps THAT water into the drum.
The amount of water it uses depends on the load. There is no "high/medium/low water" switch on this thing. The first two minutes of the cycle are spent calculating the amount of water needed to wash what you have in there, and only that amount is used.
The machine has several excellent cleaning cycles, although "normal" and "colors" are the ones you'll use most. There is also a "15 minute fast cycle" I haven't tried yet, and a lovely "whitest whites" cycle (which I tried first) that will get that orange shit Trump puts on his face out of his golf shirts. If you are stuck with an unenviable chore like washing Mitch McConnell's undershorts, you can put the temperature setting on "Sanitize" and the built-in boiler will raise the water temperature to hospital-grade settings. I have never seen clothes as clean as they come out of this washer.
If you get one of these, one word of advice: Always use "max" spin. The regular spin cycle gets most of the water out. The "max" cycle leaves your clothes almost dry.
Proper engineering leads to better results than just throwing water at it.
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Great post!!! 
