Washers and Dryers in HCMC

I've notices a lot of advertisements for good apartments/condos in HCMC have modern washing machines, but no dryers.

I take it most people just hang up their clothes to dry? If so, doesn't it take a long time given the humidity?

Does anyone on the forum send their laundry out to be cleaned? If so, how much would a standard load cost?

Cheers,

Roger

- @RTLisSB

When you have a balcony with sun, it's dry in 1 hour..

The problem is the washing machines. Most of them here are cold washing machines, and so don't wash well.

- @Erikji

When you have a balcony with sun, it's dry in 1 hour..

The problem is the washing machines. Most of them here are cold washing machines, and so don't wash well.

- @Erikji

Al the washing machines in my apartments (5) could wash with hot water, and two had cook wash.  Only my first apartment had a dryer, but as you say, it only takes an hour to dry on the balcony. 

- @paulmsn

Al the washing machines in my apartments (5) could wash with hot water, and two had cook wash.  Only my first apartment had a dryer, but as you say, it only takes an hour to dry on the balcony. 

- @paulmsn

Cook wash?

- @RTLisSB

I think "cook wash" is a bad translation of what my washer can do.

With only cold water input into the machine, it has a setting as high as 95°c (203°f) for the internal heating function, and then another button set for "intensive wash" and "medic rinse" (which might be hotter; I don't know).

I'm guessing this is a temperature intended for such things as sanitizing cloth diapers.

Visualizing people doing laundry the true, old-fashioned way, someone probably chose "cook" because people used to boil their laundry in big kettles over flames, quite literally "cooking" the clothes clean.

- @OceanBeach92107

I've notices a lot of advertisements for good apartments/condos in HCMC have modern washing machines, but no dryers.

I take it most people just hang up their clothes to dry? If so, doesn't it take a long time given the humidity?

Does anyone on the forum send their laundry out to be cleaned? If so, how much would a standard load cost?

Cheers,

Roger

- @RTLisSB

I think "cook wash" is a bad translation of what my washer can do.

With only cold water input into the machine, it has a setting as high as 95°c (203°f) for the internal heating function, and then another button set for "intensive wash" and "medic rinse" (which might be hotter; I don't know).

I'm guessing this is a temperature intended for such things as sanitizing cloth diapers.

Visualizing people doing laundry the true, old-fashioned way, someone probably chose "cook" because people used to boil their laundry in big kettles over flames, quite literally "cooking" the clothes clean.

- @OceanBeach92107

I think "cook wash" is a bad translation of what my washer can do.

With only cold water input into the machine, it has a setting as high as 95°c (203°f) for the internal heating function, and then another button set for "intensive wash" and "medic rinse" (which might be hotter; I don't know).

I'm guessing this is a temperature intended for such things as sanitizing cloth diapers.

Visualizing people doing laundry the true, old-fashioned way, someone probably chose "cook" because people used to boil their laundry in big kettles over flames, quite literally "cooking" the clothes clean.

- @OceanBeach92107

I translated from the German, since the first washer I encountered with this setting was a German washer.  The term is "Kochwäsche" in German.  95-100 degrees C.

- @paulmsn

Visualizing people doing laundry the true, old-fashioned way, someone probably chose "cook" because people used to boil their laundry in big kettles over flames, quite literally "cooking" the clothes clean.

- @OceanBeach92107

I translated from the German, since the first washer I encountered with this setting was a German washer.  The term is "Kochwäsche" in German.  95-100 degrees C.

- @paulmsn

Translate that into English and you get "boil wash"

- @OceanBeach92107

I translated from the German, since the first washer I encountered with this setting was a German washer.  The term is "Kochwäsche" in German.  95-100 degrees C.

- @paulmsn

Translate that into English and you get "boil wash"

- @OceanBeach92107

It also means cook, both the action (verb: kochen) and the profession.  My German is currently at the level of a child, but I knew more once upon a time.

- @paulmsn