Washing machine cheapest setting?

Spies

Ms_Chocaholic said:

Re spin speed, although it may not reduce the energy usage of the washing machine it will result in less creases in your laundry and therefore less time and electricity to iron (if you do iron that is, I find with a minimum spin then I don't need to iron anything).

But how much longer does that take to dry? 

Aylesbury_Duck

Spies said:

Ms_Chocaholic said:

Re spin speed, although it may not reduce the energy usage of the washing machine it will result in less creases in your laundry and therefore less time and electricity to iron (if you do iron that is, I find with a minimum spin then I don't need to iron anything).

But how much longer does that take to dry? 

Never compared drying times objectively, but at this time of year, a full load spun at 500rpm and hung out in the morning is dry by the evening.  Plenty fast enough for me.

k_man

newbieFTB said:

There's no eco setting on mine, only a cottons eco which is a 3h10 min wash, but I have a plug in monitor and was surprised at the difference in prices (which are based on 27p per unit of elec)...

Beko machine, around 2-3 years old...

40 degree, 1h 9 min synthetics wash (standard is 2h10, I've always pressed fast button to bring it to 1h 9 min) = 0.57kwh = 15p

40 degree, 38 min quick wash = 0.39kwh = 10p

30 degree, 28 min quick wash = 0.15kwh = 4p

Spin speed is the same for all, 1200rpm.

Thanks for that.
Were these with the same load? As mentioned above, many machine adjust water volume depending on load?

But 30 degree quick wash FTW.