{"id":3520,"date":"2019-09-08T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:14:37","slug":"easy-inexpensive-fix-for-smelly-microfibre-cloths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Easy inexpensive chemical free fix for smelly microfibre cloths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=3520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3524\" src=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MicroFibreCloth__JernOgFix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MicroFibreCloth__JernOgFix.jpg 682w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MicroFibreCloth__JernOgFix-150x51.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MicroFibreCloth__JernOgFix-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microfibre cloths are nice, but get sour and smelly, even after a machine wash. (same goes for or any other plastic cloths)<\/p>\n<p>They usually smell fine directly from the machine, but soon after they get wet they stink again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is easily fixed by a microwave oven!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The smell comes from the lactic bacteria that easily survive a 30\u00b0 or 40\u00b0 wash, but the plastic in the cloth can not take the 90\u00b0 that would&#8217;ve killed them, some clothes can be washed at 60\u00b0 though.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a simple inexpensive solution, without any chemicals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Let the cloth dry out completely<\/li>\n<li>Place on\/in a microwave safe dish\/bowl<\/li>\n<li>Place next to a 2-3dl cup of water, in the microwave<\/li>\n<li>Give it 1-2min at full power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important that the cloth is dry, if it is wet it will locally boil, destroying the material.<\/p>\n<p>When dry it is only the bacteria that are boiled, so we effectively use the oven as an autoclave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The water beside is important for the oven not to break(!), as it needs somewhere to put all the effect. (The mass of the bacteria is way too small by it self)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But of course if you just use traditional cotton cloths instead you completely avoid the problem as these can easily handle 90\u00b0 machine wash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microfibre cloths are nice, but get sour and smelly, even after a machine wash. (same goes for or any other plastic cloths) They usually smell fine directly from the machine, but soon after they get wet they stink again&#8230; This is easily fixed by a microwave oven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}