pre-wear washing question - prefolds and AIOs

kittybits21

my washer is from the 90's. It has three temp modes, hot/cold, warm/cold, and cold/cold. it has a regular cycle, a perm press cycle, and a delicate cycle.

when things say "hot rinse," does this mean I need to actually watch the washer and stop it at a certain point? I'm looking to prep my dipes all together for the first wash, and then of course my prefolds need to go round about 5 more times after that. I have 6 AIOs, 3 covers, and 20 prefolds so far.

please school me on this? TIA!

Dr.Loretta

You don't have a rinse cycle? Hmmm, that makes it tougher.

Yes, I guess you'd have to stop it at a certain poing.

If you were prepping, I'd just do a series of hot/cold wash cycles and not worry about rinse cycles until you're actually using the diapers.

kittybits21

Dr.Loretta:

You don't have a rinse cycle? Hmmm, that makes it tougher.

I'm going to have to check when I get home, but off the top of my head, I don't recall anything on my machine that just lets you rinse. shows you how much I pay attention to that stuff though, lol.

fotobird

Dr.Loretta:

You don't have a rinse cycle? Hmmm, that makes it tougher.

Yes, I guess you'd have to stop it at a certain poing.

If you were prepping, I'd just do a series of hot/cold wash cycles and not worry about rinse cycles until you're actually using the diapers.

More than certain that you can do a regular cycle without any detergent as your rinse. I did, works brilliantly.

HTH!

Shortcake2675

Wait.  People use a hot rinse?

Hot/cold is what I used to prep my diapers.  Threw them in the dryer in between washes.