For Those Wondering Why We Made a Video About Washing Machines: In the US Washing Machines Tend to be Quite Different Than Those Found Outside the US. The "Biggest" Difference is that US Washing Machines tend to be significantly larger and in the US many homes have a "Laundry Room" that is dedicated to holding just the washing machine and dryer. We had received a number or requests asking us to do this video, so we wanted to help our fellow travelers who had asked. I hope that helps!

Thank you!!We have always been so confused. Waking up at night at 2am..machine still washing..waking up at 4, 7, etc and lavatrice STILL rotating .aaarrgggh .lolol . Grazie molto!

How to use european washing machine LOL 😄😄😄

We're staying at an Airbnb in Athens and this video is a life saver.

i'm a bit late to this video, do not use liquid detergent in the drawer. if you pour it in the drawer, it will immediately go into the drum. and many of the newer front loader, when you star the cycle, will first drain any of the liquids and then start adding water. meaning your detergent is already expelled without being used. instead, put it in the bottle cap and into the drum and then start the wash cycle.

1:11 i for one think this is acctually really big. like who needs anything this long, am i right? i think something smaller, around four inches is perfectly enough, and that would probably also have a super nice personality to go along with it.

This was helpful for arriving in Crete and using the washing machine in the Airbnb apartment. Thank you!

Hello! At 3:00 :
The first button is play.
The second button is for a prewash.
The 3rd button is for an extra rinse.
The 4th one is for no spin cycle.
The final one is where you turn off and on the machine.
Please remember that on every single washing machine these settings will vary. Please search on google the manual of the model number you will see in a corner of the machine, it will have instructions, and it surely will in english.

I Love this info. thank you

Can you use detergent sheets on these machines?

Washing machine = Russian army's first target in Ukraine.

Does european machines exist in the us?

If you need a video to work a f–ing appliance, the designers failed miserably. I cant believe Europeans put up with this crap

I love to watch your videos and that one of the important messages you bring all the time is to respect the local cultures.

As for washers – in the US the so called HE washing machine are pretty much like in Europe – just they don't heat up water unless you select a sanitizing wash. They use the warm water out of the apartment / home.

Wow thanks! We are going to be spending some time in Europe and this will make the laundry so much easier than guessing!! Thank you!

This is really ridiculous. If you put out a tutorial on something, and your experience is a sample of 1, maybe make the tutorial for that one machine, or better yet, do some research.

quick question why aren’t you using Tide HE? (high efficiency)..

BEKO is number one

For everyday clothes use sintetichs 30 is cool 40 is warm 60 is hot and 90 extra hot! For towels cottons bedding use cotton, thats because sintetics is american easy care or ifon so get more water and more gentle tymble and less wrinkles in the clothes, if necessary i allways use extrarinse option! Oh, i forgot sintetics is even shorter than cotton

NEVER WASH ON COLD

You really helped me with your video…

Eco takes 4 hours in Portugal? Wow. I can only speak for Britain but all recent machines have a high-speed economy setting, about 20-30 mins, including spin. Unless the clothes are filthy I don't see any point using anything else

Just moved to Poland for university. The still images with labels are SO. HELPFUL. Thank's for the great video

I take it , it's newly being single lads watching this .. like myself lol

Useful video but too long for the information!

Make video close….

I live in the UK and the washer you used was a Beko there are millions of other brands out their and ones with bigger space in the drum that was 5kg there are 6kg 7kg 8kg 9kg 10kg 11kg and 12kg which can hold more clothes than the washer you used in this video

Thank you Queen that really helped. Now I need to rewash my clothes because I used the wrong slot for detergent lol 😂

Hi Jocelyn! I'm watching this video in 2021.
It caught my attention because I lived in Brazil/US/Europe now, and all I can think of is: "is it so different than in the US?! What?"
It is always fun to watch these videos. Thank you for the content 🙂

you should take a look at the european topload washer- its like our fronloaders, but not even close to the american toploaders. and honey…. NO SPIN is for cashmere and other delicate wool. you have to lay it wet on the racket to not to destroy it. thats why you have the NO SPIN option on the machine

Thank you! I'm an American in my first trip to italy and these machines are so different 😂

Thank you!!!

I’m sooo mad, I’ve been putting the detergent part in the middle!!! Omgg no wonder my clothes dont smell nice.

You showed 1/2 machine. Thats very rare in Europe. Maybe 5-10%.
Also, we have Miele, Gaggenau, Bosch, Aeg, Gorenje, Candy…. 😊❤

you can hit pause, and after some time the clothes washer unlocks and you can put new things in or other things out.

"Do not think that the ECO button is going to be an ECONOMIC TIME SAVER" hahahahaha here is the two visions: Europeans save water and energy, whereas Americans svae time.

This is a really bad explanation of European machines 😑

I am Dutch and used one time an American washing machine on a camping. There wassomething inside that pushes your clothes inside around. It made holes in some clothes and the clothes of our children were still with stains from grass and sand. The cycle took only about 45 minutes. Too short to clean well.

Where does the bleach go? Yours in the example and mine has a detergent, softener, and pre-wash but no bleach compartment like US…

So it takes 4 to 20 times longer to do laundry loads of a fraction of the size as in the US. I guess no more waiting 1 or 2 weeks to do laundry like in the US. I plan on moving to Europe for political reasons despite the recent good news.

About this washer
Asian and European : this is a normal washing machina
American : this is a compact/small washer

You forgot to mention, that the temeratures on the dial are in °C and NOT in °F
It's a small difference with a big impact.

Thank you for your video. I am in cyprus trying to understand a washing machine and a understand all with your video. 😁👊♥️

And in the europe they do have dryers the look similar to the washers just google Europe dryers

Put liquid detergent directly into the drum if you don´t prewash. It prevents stains in the drawer.

sasha what ya doing here

You might want to revise your temperature setting in light of the C-19 virus. It is suggested that 60c is the minimum to use. https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/03/coronavirus-how-to-wash-clothes-and-kill-germs/

This video is GOLD! I am presently shopping for a washer outside the U.S. and the dashboards on these puppies are dizzying! I mean, RPMs? Really?? TMI, IMO!!!

Compounding the confusion is the need to constantly convert kilograms, centimeters, and currency as I’m negotiating (yes, the sticker price is but a suggestion) in a language I have yet to master. 😓

I even nicked my finger while clumsily opening the spring-loaded tumbler of a top-loading model (front-loaders being notorious for mold) and the saleswoman stared at me like I was from Mars. “Sorry, lady, I have never seen one of these before, now get over it!” 🤬