Subdeacon Joe Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 That's a really good example of insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 2 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: That's a really good example of insanity. Just unclear on the concept of "freeze drying." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 It will most certainly NOT be dry when it thaws out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 It won't thaw. You leave it out until it's dry. Water goes directly to vapor without the intermediate step of thaw/liquid, a process called sublimation. Not at all uncommon when I was growing up to hang clothes out in freezing weather. The women folk complained terribly about what cold and wet did to their arthritis and as I recall, winter was when Hannah Brothers sold most of their new fangled clothes dryers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: AAAHH, springtime in Florida! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 The Amish hang their laundry all winter and yes it dries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 My Mom and Grandmother hung laundry in the winter and it does dry. It will freeze but it will dry if the laundry has been wrung out. If it's saturated it will freeze and not dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 32 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: My Mom and Grandmother hung laundry in the winter and it does dry. It will freeze but it will dry if the laundry has been wrung out. If it's saturated it will freeze and not dry. Yep. Mom did too. It was a happy day in our house when the old ringer got replaced with a dryer. She still hung clothes sometimes. Especially sheets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Just don't put it out on really windy days. Bending frozen cloth damages the fibers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 6 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said: Just don't put it out on really windy days. Bending frozen cloth damages the fibers. My mom would hang her wash out on cold windy days, her theory was the water froze and the wind snapping the cloth made the ice fall off. She said she never got whiter wash then in the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 We didn't have that kind of snow but hung laundry winter & summer - no choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wapaloosie73 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Good Nordic woman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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