The chore I dread the most is laundry. I can't stand dragging my dirty clothes across the neighborhood to an overpriced Laundromat only to have them cleaned poorly or destroyed. So for the past few years I have been doing laundry by hand in some buckets in my bathtub.
The biggest nuisance to doing laundry by hand is wringing out the clothes--they are always sopping wet. When the humidity is high, the clothes can take a couple days to dry.
So I ordered the Nina, a centrifugal "spin" dryer. You load the machine with your wet clothes, and when you plug the machine into a power outlet, your clothes are spun at 1800 revolutions per minute until the bulk of the water has been removed, about 2-5 minutes.
The clothes come out dry. In this test, I determine that nearly 90% of the water is removed from my clothes after run through the Nina (some of that water is removed by just sitting in the bucket however).
Mass of dry clothes: 3.4 lbs
Mass of wet clothes after washing: 11.0 lbs
Mass of water in clothes after washing: (11.0 lbs - 3.4 lbs = 7.6 lbs)
Mass of water in bucket after going through Nina: 6.8 lbs
% water removed from clothes: (6.8 lbs / 7.6 lbs *100 = 89.5%)
So far, I like the product!
