Or somewhat clean?
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- 11 hours
No.
Just put it back into your dirty laundry basket and wash it the next time you do a load. It’s just a sock.
- 15 hours
No, the dryer doesn’t do anything for cleaning.
A washing machine works by using water with detergents to dissolve dirt (particularly fats) in the water, alongside enzymes and other agents to help loosen and break down the dirt. You need all the parts to get the clothes clean, but even just soaking them in water without anything else is a start.
The dryer purely dries the clothes by moving them in hot dry air, which draws out the water and then with a condenser to cool the air and catch the water. It does nothing at all for cleaning. It does also help soften clothes by the mechanical movement round and round, and you can put in a ball or laundry sheets as part of that.
A dirty sock mixed in with wet laundry in the dryer could even make the other clothes a bit dirtier by making the sock wet and dissolving the dirt and spreading it. The sock would be marginally cleaner in that situation but you’d have a whole load of slightly dirtier laundry.
You can hand wash items though. So put some warm water in a bowl, soak the sock and (with gloves!) use laundry detergent & rub it in to the soak and rinse. Or without gloves you can use simple bathroom soap, and rub it in and rinse. The rinsing is probably the hardest bit as you need to do it a fair bit to get all the soap/detergent out or it’ll feel wierd due to the residue when it dries. But it would clean the sock with some effort - thats what they used to do in the days before machines.
- 18 hours
if your hands were covered in mud and you dried the mud, would your hands be clean or covered in dried mud?
22 hoursYou ever hear of that thought question “Does soap get dirty”?
if the sock did get clean, then the stuff making the sock dirty… went somewhere. I submit that not only did your sock not get clean, it made the other clothes not clean, too.
Not at all, soap is require to release the binds between fabric and filth and the wet clothes have been rinsed and are soap-free.
- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish11 hours
It’s not a binary clean/not-clean thing. The sock will be tumbled around in water with the other clothes as it’s being dried.
The sock will be clean-ER than it was when it was on the floor. The sock won’t be AS clean as the rest of the clothes in the drier.
Depending on how dirty the sock started out, this may be all that matters. We don’t know how sweaty or stained the sock started out. We don’t know how clean this person requires their sock to be.
Would I do it? No, I prefer my socks to be cleaner than that, and my socks get kinda stinky after I wear them. But someone that mostly wore them around the house and never actually put those socks into shoes? It’s probably fine.
The dryer doesn’t clean clothes, so that would be just putting a dirty sock in with your clean wet clothes.
- gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish23 hours
No. In fact, the heat will set in any stains, making them even more difficult to remove.
