Gadgetory

we take our washing machine reviews really seriously and we're proud of the test procedures we've developed but there's so much that happens behind the scenes so we thought we'd give you a glimpse of how we test washers so you can peer into the wild world of large appliance testing a lot of companies rely on the association of home appliance manufacturers or AM to assess their own models before they hit the retail floor the general gist is that eh-hem accounts for the multitude of potential variations that can happen when you're testing a machine so that we can actually standardize from machine to machine and compare them fairly that includes everything from the washers water temperature and pressure to the size of the load and even how the laundry is loaded we also use a ham approved detergent stain strips and other materials all of which have much less variation than the stuff we can find in stores so the two main things we test are one how well a washer remove stains and two how tough or gentle it is on the clothes for stain removal a hem suggest stain strips complete with five different stains sebum are the oil on your skin carbon cocoa blood and wine we use a reflective color immature to test how well each machine removes stains the color emitter measures the percent reflectance we can actually compare the results pre and post cleaning cycle to determine general wear and tear on clothes a hem suggests mechanical action strips for these odd-looking five hole punch sheets we use a ruler to measure all of the attached strings that are two millimeters or long or after a cleaning cycle thanks for watching be sure to check out cnet.com for all of our washing machine