I've used a hair dryer in the past, and it works a lot faster than this does. I've dried a t-shirt in about 10 -15 minutes that way. I think the bag causes a problem because while it does keep the heat in, it does not allow the moisture to evaporate. It might work better if the bottom of the bag was vented or open to allow the air to carry the moist air out of the bag.
A hairdryer would definitely be more effective than the product show. Plus, it has more uses, but you have to constantly hold it and check it's not overheating, blocked, or burning your item
@@Andytheevien True. But you can run it for 5 minutes, then take a break if you want. My hair dryer has a hook on the end to hang it from so I could easily rig something up to hang it from a shower rod and put a cotton clothing bag over it and it would still work faster and better than this thing does. If you are holding it in your hand, there is no reason to check if it is blocked, that would be very obvious if it were. And you would know to hold it far enough, and set the temperature to a level where there would be no risk of damage to whatever you are drying.
Putting it on a clothesline outside in the Vegas summer environment would have dried these clothes faster than any other method. Really, you should not use a hairdryer for things like this.
I think a better control for the socks would have been to hang them up, so you'd get air circulation on both sides, like the drier. I've never laid socks flat to dry; in a hotel I'd hang them over the shower bar or towel rack.
When I hand wash items on vacation I always roll my tops in a towel to get rid of the excess water then I hang them up and they dry overnight. I think you would have had quicker results if you had done that with your tests.
Hey James! Could you please try flipping the items upside down halfway through? For longer t-shirts etc use the sock clips to hang it from the bottom hem. I feel like this might get the whole thing dry quicker and evenly?
Use the extended shoe adapters to dry the shirt. The heat would start at the bottom and move up, that way, possibly evaporating the moisture more quickly out the top of the bag.
Me either! And apparently I watch him so much his videos are auto playing in my pocket. No lie, didn't see he had a new video, put my phone in my pocket, suddenly hear his voice and it was this video playing on its own! So weird lol
I have something like this, it comes with the bag as well, which is I thought the purpose to prevent dripping, so I rarely use it when I using the drier, and it takes shorter amounts of time to dry without the bag, because with the bag keep the moisture inside so it has nowhere to go when the water evaporated.
I wonder if it would work without the bag. Just let the air flow through. I work at a dry cleaners and we have to make sure everything is dry before bagging because the bag holds in moisture.
I think the bag is to help get the hot air to the lower parts of the shirt, in that respect they could've put the exhaust hole at the bottom, that could've made it work faster.
@@loriki8766 holes at the bottom would make sense, gets rid of the moisture and encourages airflow from top-down which isn't what hot air does by default.
Over an hour for one item of clothing to still be damp after? While on vacation, we wash a "full load" of clothes in the tub, then hang dry across shower rod with fan blowing or hang in the hotel room with the heat/AC on before heading out for a few hours. It works much faster plus everything is dry by the time we get back to the room.
hang multiple shirts/pants/whatever on the shower curtain rod and put a strong fan in the bathroom facing the bathtub. ive dried stuff over night this way many times when i didnt have a washer/dryer in my apartment.
on vacations i bring dry-fit clothes generally for half the days i'm there (last time was in Vegas!). normally a hotel has a vent cranking the AC and i put wet clothes in the path of the air current, gets dry overnight. I also roll them in a towel beforehand and bang them around or smoosh them to get extra water out. Doing this would also help dry out clothes faster with or without the gadget.
If you look at the listing, it says, "Dry clothes quickly even on rainy days. No need to waste time on waiting." However, you had to wait 2 hours for a 3/4 dry shirt. I guess it's okay if you turn it on for 3 hours before you go to bed, but it seems like the only thing that was dry in under 3 hours was your small sock.
Seems a lil more economic to just bring some extra clothes if you can. I recommend testing the bettervent James! Once it gets colder outside. It’s a way to vent your drier indoors and is cleaner than the bucket of water method. Considering using this with my apartment size panda drier during the winter to keep the heat and humidity inside.
My family bought a cheap dryer that was a very similar concept, except it was free-standing and it had multiple arms. The heater was essentially just a huge blow dryer. It worked but it was slow. It also consumed a TON of electricity. Thank God electric bills were cheap back then. I found that just hanging my clothes in my closet was just as efficient as that cheap dryer. All I had to do was turn a simple box fan on high and point it to my closet and my clothes were dried in the same amount of time and a quarter of the energy was used. My conclusion is it's much better to use a tumble dryer than those things.
I'm curious if using the shoe attachment would make things like shirts dry more evenly. The tubes would reach down lower and since the hot air will rise anyway you shouldn't (in theory) see as much of a gradient.
if its taking 2 hours per garment, it might be quicker to hang them on the shower curtain rod overnight since youd be able to dry a full outfit like that.
@@schmitty8225Yeah, maybe not. 😂 But you could let your stuff dry overnight and then use a hair dryer for the rest of the dampness (if there's any). Travel hair dryers are much smaller than this thing and many people take one with them anyway. They cost less too.
@@markbajek2541 A Milwaukee Fuel m18 cordless leaf blower to be exact. I got my shirt wet outside while pressure washing and used it to dry off. I have used fans to dry clothes all the time.
Something I kept thinking, if you checked at different marks, each time you opened the bags, you let existing warm air out. I think it would have been better to wet a shirt, dry for x time and check. Rewet and dry for more time. So when it wasn’t done at the 1 hour mark, letting all the air out wasn’t the same as drying for 2 straight hours when you added an hour more. Just my $.02.
Not really, no. Of you open an oven to check you maybe add a few minutes if anything but not a whole hour or any significant amount. It maybe added a few minutes but a bag like that would heat up again very quickly. Try blowing air into a bag with hair dryer. Basically the same thing.
if you don't let the air out the moisture is just stays with the air so.. you make the air hot to make the air 'dryer' than ambient but if it just stays in there it doesn't really do anything more than a steamer does
I can see the pros and cons on this product. One question comes to mind regarding the socks .Would hanging them by the toes rather than the top dry them quicker as the toes would most likely be thicker and require a longer drying time?
I wonder if the shirt dryer would work better without the bag. Convection would move the air around the entire shirt, and would seem to be more effective in the small hotel bathroom
Ive found I can dry almost as good just hanging on a rack with a fan blowing on it. I've done shirts, underpants or socks. Depends on the environment. If there's a lot of humidity it takes longer. I do have to plan ahead. I've had stuff dry just overnight with nothing but a fan. I don't know about shoes.
In hotels (when I was in the Air Force...lol), I'd just drape small items over the air conditioning/heating vents, or for larger items, over a chair next to the vents, for FREE drying.
When we travel and do laundry we always roll the wet items in a towel first to get all of the excess moisture out … I think that this would probably work really well for the things we wash in hotel rooms - like basketball uniforms…if I was not at the end of my basketball travel - I would have bought this!
Thanks for the review -- another product that I won't buy. Lucky for us, when we travel on vacation, we usually stay in a timeshare that has a washer/dryer in the unit or near the unit so we do laundry once a week while on vacation (more if w/d inside the unit). I try to stay somewhere with a W/D in the unit, so that I can wash the bed sheets myself (who knows when housekeeping last washed them?).
pro tip for clothes drying in a hurry when traveling is to have a full sized microfiber towel, the thin kind that you can ring out. sink wash ckothing item, then wring out, then place on microfiber towel and fold then wring both things together. most of the water will be sucked into the towel. then if you add this gadget into the mix you prob wouldn't have to wait hours and hours for one shirt
Hanging chlothes up and have a desktop or floor model fan blowing on them usually dries clothes around 3 hours also. Unless they are a thick or long material.
Out of curiosity, could you use the shoe drying tubes pointing up the bottom of the drying bag to dry clothes from the bottom up? I feel like that could work better than how they are having you dry from the top down.
You're in Vegas? Just hang the things on a hanger and hang it outside. It'll be dry in less than an hour, especially in Summer. I'm in Arizona and we do that all of the time.
That dryer is very much a "better than nothing" sort of item. Might be great to bring along camping if you know you will have access to an outlet but would have to drive a long way to dry something you will need the next day. I would personally classify this dryer as a shoe dryer that can also do shirts in a pinch.
I think this is a decent product if you are an adventurous person camping and occasionally stay at a hotel to shower and sleep and charge things. 45 minutes through clip the clothing upside down to finish up. It's a good product depending on your needs.
Awesome review, although it makes me think, even though it seems to work, what about a cheap garment bag and the hotel room hair dryer, yea might be a trial and error type of thing, but it would be a hack to get the same results without an extra item in the suitcase. anyways thanks for the review, I really enjoy them.
As strange as it sounds, I think it'll dry shirts better if laying down on the table because moisture goes to the bottom when you hang clothes. Also, hot air rises so the bottom likely doesn't get much warm air. Alternatively, it would probably work better if the top hole of the bag was sealed and the hole was on the bottom, this is how food dehydrators are typically designed, vents on bottom
Quite honestly if I’m on vacation I’m usually at a campground. If I need to dry a pair of shoes or a shirt I would just lay them hot on the hood of my truck in the sun. That would be much faster than this. But I could see how someone who travels for work my have a use for this
it might work better if you turned the clothes upside down half way through but that's a lot easier to do with the socks and i thought it was going to set something on fire at first
Never tried this. I'm old school though. Hang my clothes outside on the clothesline still and when travelling, I use a wooden coathanger and hang them outside on the balcony.. So, which would dry faster? Outside on the line or inside with that gizmo? I think outside. Great video.
You need to include 'controls' for these tests. I've hung up a wet shirt on a shower rod and without influence, it's dried completely in just over an hour. Should have hung a control wet shirt along with test shirt.
You should’ve put it in front of a fan instead of on the table… that’s what I usually do when I need a shirt or something dried kind of quick and I’m not around a dryer
If you hang the clothes and turn on the overhead fan to move the air in the bathroom (leave the door cracked open) it would probably dry faster because heat does not dry if the moisture can't wick away, you are basically steaming the clothes. Fresh air flow moving over the clothes would do better.
As heat rises you should try drying the clothes in the bag with the shoe drying hoses on. Extend to the bottom of the bag and let the heat rise from the bottom up.
Hook on ONE of the shoe dryers, and pull it to its full length, to get the bottoms of the garments dryer... And, I'd make a few small vents on the sides... Turn socks or other items upside-down part way through to dry more evenly... I think a hair dryer, or even a small fan, inside a closed up shower could work as well.
Our office used to have a hand dryer installed back then and that's what I use to dry my shoes whenever there's heavy rain. I only need 15 minutes to dry it. This includes the socks.
Well I've never use a portable dryer but when I wash my Kilts I hang them above my tub for an hour to drip then move them to my clothes hanger. Then run a fan on them for another couple of hours and they are mostly dry which is better than your results with the bag. My point is that just hanging the first shirt and heavy socks in an area with good air flow would probably get better results.
Used the hotel hair dryer and it worked just fine on drying shoes or other garments. Having to hang that thing over shoes in a hotel room could be tricky finding a way to do that. Does it work if the unit is laying down next to the shoes?
A dryer machine spins them around. It's obviously for a good reason. That's probably the issue with this dryer not working too well. I guess it's like the idea of using a hand dryer or a hair dryer since a lot of people have used those to dry a wet enough shirt, or socks. Like in the restroom or a gym locker room. The issue is that we move the clothes around under the heat so each area is dried. We don't just open up the shirt or the sock and have the heat go straight into them to try and get all of clothes dried at once without moving it. I can only see a portable clothes dryer working if spins the clothes around or you can easily turn it around. The shirt and tops way of this dryer is a hanger. So it can only be held through the neck of a top of clothes. So it looks like it's not gonna get the stuff dry for that reason unless you dry them for a few hours. Which is way too long i.m.o. I'd rather use a hair dryer and be there drying it for about 10-20 minutes (if it's not a super soaked top/shirt). That would be way faster.
Could you perform one more test please? I have the Temu collapsible washing machine. It does a fantastic job of wringing out the clothes. I wonder 🤔 if this dryer would work better for that type of application. I also have a big salad spinner in my RV just for laundry.
What type of power use? Three hours of heat could be a toll where an iron or hairdryer could give more bang for the buck. It would be super if it powered from a USB. Seems that as it plugs in, it could add some sort of fan function as well. Its a great idea, love that, curious about it anyway!
Heat rises, as most should know. Maybe a fan that has more power can blow air through a t-tube down to the bottom of the dryer bag will fix the issue of shirts not drying efficiently.
Try drying whatever with the shoe hoses attached and pulled out to the bottom as far as they can go. Then, the warm air will start at the bottom of the bag and vent out the top. Heat rises.
I would say it had to do with opening it half way and letting the built up air escaping, but then you did the extra hour. Think it's one of those things youd want to wait a few years on or, like I've seen in the comments, just use a blow dryer. (especially if it's not your electricity you are using ;))
The only situation I’d be curious about with this would be with a swimsuit on a cruise ship. It’s always a little chilly getting your trunks on the next morning even after you hung them on the line. This I think would do the trick. Put them in there, go to dinner, come back, you’re good
Maybe cut some slits at the bottom of the bag to promote circulation towards the bottom? If just 1 shirt, it would air dry at that amount of time. Thanx for review! 👍👍👍
I feel like the bag would make it worse considering it traps the moisture from the garment. before i watched the video i saw the bags and thought they would be vaccum bags and the dryer would sorta vacuum-squeeze out a lot of the liquid before blasting it with air. this design is just a glorified hair dryer lmao
I've used a hair dryer in the past, and it works a lot faster than this does. I've dried a t-shirt in about 10 -15 minutes that way. I think the bag causes a problem because while it does keep the heat in, it does not allow the moisture to evaporate. It might work better if the bottom of the bag was vented or open to allow the air to carry the moist air out of the bag.
A hairdryer would definitely be more effective than the product show. Plus, it has more uses, but you have to constantly hold it and check it's not overheating, blocked, or burning your item
That's exactly what I was thinking. Plus with a hair dryer you can get the wrinkles out of a shirt as you go.
@@Andytheevien True. But you can run it for 5 minutes, then take a break if you want. My hair dryer has a hook on the end to hang it from so I could easily rig something up to hang it from a shower rod and put a cotton clothing bag over it and it would still work faster and better than this thing does.
If you are holding it in your hand, there is no reason to check if it is blocked, that would be very obvious if it were. And you would know to hold it far enough, and set the temperature to a level where there would be no risk of damage to whatever you are drying.
A powerful hair dryer is way better and faster than this.
Putting it on a clothesline outside in the Vegas summer environment would have dried these clothes faster than any other method.
Really, you should not use a hairdryer for things like this.
I think a better control for the socks would have been to hang them up, so you'd get air circulation on both sides, like the drier. I've never laid socks flat to dry; in a hotel I'd hang them over the shower bar or towel rack.
I would also put the shoes at an angle so gravity assists
... or the door handles ;)
To dry shoes, we just always put them over the air vents on the floor. OR if it is a hot dry day, then they go outside to dry.
When I hand wash items on vacation I always roll my tops in a towel to get rid of the excess water then I hang them up and they dry overnight. I think you would have had quicker results if you had done that with your tests.
Hey James! Could you please try flipping the items upside down halfway through? For longer t-shirts etc use the sock clips to hang it from the bottom hem. I feel like this might get the whole thing dry quicker and evenly?
I had said that in another post. Seems that James needs to do further testing on this.
How do you hang a shirt from the bottom though
@@HeyThatWeirdGuyyou use clothes pins
I had the same thought of flipping the clothes upside down too! Also the small dry bag may work with the shoes as well! Great video James!
Or could the shoe attachment be used for bottom drying
Use the extended shoe adapters to dry the shirt. The heat would start at the bottom and move up, that way, possibly evaporating the moisture more quickly out the top of the bag.
I never get bored watching you
Me either! And apparently I watch him so much his videos are auto playing in my pocket. No lie, didn't see he had a new video, put my phone in my pocket, suddenly hear his voice and it was this video playing on its own! So weird lol
@@bradasstv 🤣🤣that's crazy
I have something like this, it comes with the bag as well, which is I thought the purpose to prevent dripping, so I rarely use it when I using the drier, and it takes shorter amounts of time to dry without the bag, because with the bag keep the moisture inside so it has nowhere to go when the water evaporated.
I wonder if it would work without the bag. Just let the air flow through. I work at a dry cleaners and we have to make sure everything is dry before bagging because the bag holds in moisture.
Yeah the bag makes no sense
I think the bag is to help get the hot air to the lower parts of the shirt, in that respect they could've put the exhaust hole at the bottom, that could've made it work faster.
I wonder though if the bag has vent holes or something to keep the moisture from getting trapped?
@@loriki8766 holes at the bottom would make sense, gets rid of the moisture and encourages airflow from top-down which isn't what hot air does by default.
A clothes dryer is not what I expected when I saw the thumbnail
The shoe attachment made my mind go directly to "DANGER! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" (yes, I'm showing my age) 😂
Over an hour for one item of clothing to still be damp after? While on vacation, we wash a "full load" of clothes in the tub, then hang dry across shower rod with fan blowing or hang in the hotel room with the heat/AC on before heading out for a few hours. It works much faster plus everything is dry by the time we get back to the room.
hang multiple shirts/pants/whatever on the shower curtain rod and put a strong fan in the bathroom facing the bathtub. ive dried stuff over night this way many times when i didnt have a washer/dryer in my apartment.
on vacations i bring dry-fit clothes generally for half the days i'm there (last time was in Vegas!). normally a hotel has a vent cranking the AC and i put wet clothes in the path of the air current, gets dry overnight. I also roll them in a towel beforehand and bang them around or smoosh them to get extra water out. Doing this would also help dry out clothes faster with or without the gadget.
You having the foresight to keep a control group honestly really helps with the evaluation, thank you!
Foresight? That’s literally super basic testing lmao
If you look at the listing, it says, "Dry clothes quickly even on rainy days. No need to waste time on waiting." However, you had to wait 2 hours for a 3/4 dry shirt. I guess it's okay if you turn it on for 3 hours before you go to bed, but it seems like the only thing that was dry in under 3 hours was your small sock.
Perhaps this kinda thing would be best for swim wear. Since you may wanna wear it more than one day in a row and wanna make sure its dry.
We use the hotel hair dryer for swimwear.
I think the garment bag holds it back, at least for the shirts.
Seems a lil more economic to just bring some extra clothes if you can. I recommend testing the bettervent James! Once it gets colder outside. It’s a way to vent your drier indoors and is cleaner than the bucket of water method. Considering using this with my apartment size panda drier during the winter to keep the heat and humidity inside.
Or just bring a hair dryer that you may already be bringing, cause it works much faster and completely drys all your clothes including shoes.
My family bought a cheap dryer that was a very similar concept, except it was free-standing and it had multiple arms. The heater was essentially just a huge blow dryer. It worked but it was slow. It also consumed a TON of electricity. Thank God electric bills were cheap back then. I found that just hanging my clothes in my closet was just as efficient as that cheap dryer. All I had to do was turn a simple box fan on high and point it to my closet and my clothes were dried in the same amount of time and a quarter of the energy was used. My conclusion is it's much better to use a tumble dryer than those things.
I'm curious if using the shoe attachment would make things like shirts dry more evenly. The tubes would reach down lower and since the hot air will rise anyway you shouldn't (in theory) see as much of a gradient.
if its taking 2 hours per garment, it might be quicker to hang them on the shower curtain rod overnight since youd be able to dry a full outfit like that.
It would’ve dried so much faster out in Vegas heat 😂
I have used a fan and leaf blower before. Not sure if I would pay $50 for this.
Crazy you bring those into a hotel room.
There’s usually air conditioners in hotels you can use that too
@@schmitty8225Yeah, maybe not. 😂 But you could let your stuff dry overnight and then use a hair dryer for the rest of the dampness (if there's any).
Travel hair dryers are much smaller than this thing and many people take one with them anyway. They cost less too.
Gas or electric leaf blower?
@@markbajek2541 A Milwaukee Fuel m18 cordless leaf blower to be exact. I got my shirt wet outside while pressure washing and used it to dry off. I have used fans to dry clothes all the time.
Something I kept thinking, if you checked at different marks, each time you opened the bags, you let existing warm air out. I think it would have been better to wet a shirt, dry for x time and check. Rewet and dry for more time. So when it wasn’t done at the 1 hour mark, letting all the air out wasn’t the same as drying for 2 straight hours when you added an hour more. Just my $.02.
Not really, no. Of you open an oven to check you maybe add a few minutes if anything but not a whole hour or any significant amount.
It maybe added a few minutes but a bag like that would heat up again very quickly.
Try blowing air into a bag with hair dryer. Basically the same thing.
@@sylverscaleovens have hot metal rods that retain the heat. This item doesn’t. It relies on the heat being trapped in the bag.
if you don't let the air out the moisture is just stays with the air so.. you make the air hot to make the air 'dryer' than ambient but if it just stays in there it doesn't really do anything more than a steamer does
I can see the pros and cons on this product. One question comes to mind regarding the socks .Would hanging them by the toes rather than the top dry them quicker as the toes would most likely be thicker and require a longer drying time?
I wonder if the shirt dryer would work better without the bag. Convection would move the air around the entire shirt, and would seem to be more effective in the small hotel bathroom
The cost of running a hairdryer for 3 hours 🙉
Interesting idea but it really doesnt seem to work very well.
Ive found I can dry almost as good just hanging on a rack with a fan blowing on it. I've done shirts, underpants or socks. Depends on the environment. If there's a lot of humidity it takes longer. I do have to plan ahead. I've had stuff dry just overnight with nothing but a fan. I don't know about shoes.
In hotels (when I was in the Air Force...lol), I'd just drape small items over the air conditioning/heating vents, or for larger items, over a chair next to the vents, for FREE drying.
When we travel and do laundry we always roll the wet items in a towel first to get all of the excess moisture out … I think that this would probably work really well for the things we wash in hotel rooms - like basketball uniforms…if I was not at the end of my basketball travel - I would have bought this!
Thanks for the review -- another product that I won't buy. Lucky for us, when we travel on vacation, we usually stay in a timeshare that has a washer/dryer in the unit or near the unit so we do laundry once a week while on vacation (more if w/d inside the unit). I try to stay somewhere with a W/D in the unit, so that I can wash the bed sheets myself (who knows when housekeeping last washed them?).
I had a larger version in my apartment since I had no laundry hookups. Got me through some hard times lol
pro tip for clothes drying in a hurry when traveling is to have a full sized microfiber towel, the thin kind that you can ring out. sink wash ckothing item, then wring out, then place on microfiber towel and fold then wring both things together. most of the water will be sucked into the towel. then if you add this gadget into the mix you prob wouldn't have to wait hours and hours for one shirt
Even if it worked as advertised, that's a lot of equipment and effort and space just to dry a single t shirt in one hour
I would guess that sitting wet shoes and clothing outside in the Vegas heat would dry them much faster than this device.
Hanging chlothes up and have a desktop or floor model fan blowing on them usually dries clothes around 3 hours also. Unless they are a thick or long material.
50$ for a flesh light? Not bad. I’ve seen them cheaper tho.
😂
James, that shirt would dry in 15 mins hanging in my hot garage in 107 degree Texas heat! I’m sure of the same Nevada!🤗
"Is he... filming himself watering his shoes?"
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Out of curiosity, could you use the shoe drying tubes pointing up the bottom of the drying bag to dry clothes from the bottom up? I feel like that could work better than how they are having you dry from the top down.
I was totally wondering this too!
I would consider this for drying out ski boots on a trip.
Maybe for the socks if you are drying one pair use two clips on each sock. That will keep them both at a higher, and warmer, part of the bag.
This might help with winter clothes too, thanks James,you are awesome! ❤
You're in Vegas? Just hang the things on a hanger and hang it outside. It'll be dry in less than an hour, especially in Summer. I'm in Arizona and we do that all of the time.
That dryer is very much a "better than nothing" sort of item. Might be great to bring along camping if you know you will have access to an outlet but would have to drive a long way to dry something you will need the next day. I would personally classify this dryer as a shoe dryer that can also do shirts in a pinch.
Use a big box fan to dry hanging clothes. Works well.
I kinda' wish you'd compared this to an old fashioned clothes line.
The hotel hairdryer works well to dry clothes.
It would probably work better upside down. Heat rises, so it makes sense that the heat isn't reaching the bottom of the bag
I would’ve hung a similar tee shirt etc over the shower bar to drip dry as a comparison with the portable dryer. Great review as usual though.
I always roll up garmets in a towel after wringing to get more moisture out which would probably help this dry a shirt more evenly
I think this is a decent product if you are an adventurous person camping and occasionally stay at a hotel to shower and sleep and charge things. 45 minutes through clip the clothing upside down to finish up. It's a good product depending on your needs.
That would be nice to warm a bathrobe or kids pajamas for after a shower/bath.
" it dried the top faster than the bottom" yeah dude, it's called gravity
Awesome review, although it makes me think, even though it seems to work, what about a cheap garment bag and the hotel room hair dryer, yea might be a trial and error type of thing, but it would be a hack to get the same results without an extra item in the suitcase. anyways thanks for the review, I really enjoy them.
Growing up we'd dry our clothes that needed to be dried quickly on a chair in front of the oven. Everything else outside on the clothesline
As strange as it sounds, I think it'll dry shirts better if laying down on the table because moisture goes to the bottom when you hang clothes. Also, hot air rises so the bottom likely doesn't get much warm air.
Alternatively, it would probably work better if the top hole of the bag was sealed and the hole was on the bottom, this is how food dehydrators are typically designed, vents on bottom
Quite honestly if I’m on vacation I’m usually at a campground. If I need to dry a pair of shoes or a shirt I would just lay them hot on the hood of my truck in the sun. That would be much faster than this. But I could see how someone who travels for work my have a use for this
it might work better if you turned the clothes upside down half way through but that's a lot easier to do with the socks and i thought it was going to set something on fire at first
Exactly my thoughts. I'd turn the item upside down half way through. Thanks for your reviews. I enjoy them a lot.
Gravity is a key component in drying clothes and was left out of the equation.
Never tried this. I'm old school though. Hang my clothes outside on the clothesline still and when travelling, I use a wooden coathanger and hang them outside on the balcony.. So, which would dry faster? Outside on the line or inside with that gizmo? I think outside. Great video.
That’s really ghetto to do at a hotel
@@Utriedit215 And that matters why? I'm too old to care what other people think.
You need to include 'controls' for these tests. I've hung up a wet shirt on a shower rod and without influence, it's dried completely in just over an hour. Should have hung a control wet shirt along with test shirt.
You should’ve put it in front of a fan instead of on the table… that’s what I usually do when I need a shirt or something dried kind of quick and I’m not around a dryer
The difference between this and a blowdryer is that you have to hold the blowdryer.
If you hang the clothes and turn on the overhead fan to move the air in the bathroom (leave the door cracked open) it would probably dry faster because heat does not dry if the moisture can't wick away, you are basically steaming the clothes. Fresh air flow moving over the clothes would do better.
I put the clothes inside a towel and twist them to get extra moisture out then Iron it dry
Looks like another product I know of. One you wouldn't put on your channel. 😂
As heat rises you should try drying the clothes in the bag with the shoe drying hoses on.
Extend to the bottom of the bag and let the heat rise from the bottom up.
U should try using the clips to hang the shirt upside down halfway thru and see if it dries the bottom
So you have to bring an extension cord on vacation with you too? 😂
Hook on ONE of the shoe dryers, and pull it to its full length, to get the bottoms of the garments dryer... And, I'd make a few small vents on the sides... Turn socks or other items upside-down part way through to dry more evenly...
I think a hair dryer, or even a small fan, inside a closed up shower could work as well.
Our office used to have a hand dryer installed back then and that's what I use to dry my shoes whenever there's heavy rain.
I only need 15 minutes to dry it.
This includes the socks.
Well I've never use a portable dryer but when I wash my Kilts I hang them above my tub for an hour to drip then move them to my clothes hanger. Then run a fan on them for another couple of hours and they are mostly dry which is better than your results with the bag. My point is that just hanging the first shirt and heavy socks in an area with good air flow would probably get better results.
5:44 damn right they do.
Used the hotel hair dryer and it worked just fine on drying shoes or other garments.
Having to hang that thing over shoes in a hotel room could be tricky finding a way to do that. Does it work if the unit is laying down next to the shoes?
Sorry my english.
If its me, i will fold the down side of clothes to upper side of the clothes, so that the heat will dry whole clothes.
A dryer machine spins them around. It's obviously for a good reason. That's probably the issue with this dryer not working too well. I guess it's like the idea of using a hand dryer or a hair dryer since a lot of people have used those to dry a wet enough shirt, or socks. Like in the restroom or a gym locker room. The issue is that we move the clothes around under the heat so each area is dried. We don't just open up the shirt or the sock and have the heat go straight into them to try and get all of clothes dried at once without moving it. I can only see a portable clothes dryer working if spins the clothes around or you can easily turn it around. The shirt and tops way of this dryer is a hanger. So it can only be held through the neck of a top of clothes. So it looks like it's not gonna get the stuff dry for that reason unless you dry them for a few hours. Which is way too long i.m.o. I'd rather use a hair dryer and be there drying it for about 10-20 minutes (if it's not a super soaked top/shirt). That would be way faster.
in the Nevada heat (and most the south USA) I'm sure the sun works x100 times as fast
running any heating element for that long for one peice of clothing is a profound waste of energy
i use the shoes dryer to dry the socks, works pretty well. :p
Great review, going to use this for my work trips
I swear, honey, it’s a clothes dryer!
Could you perform one more test please? I have the Temu collapsible washing machine. It does a fantastic job of wringing out the clothes. I wonder 🤔 if this dryer would work better for that type of application. I also have a big salad spinner in my RV just for laundry.
you should compare a hair dryer to it, due to the fact that some hotels have hair dryers in the bathrooms
What type of power use? Three hours of heat could be a toll where an iron or hairdryer could give more bang for the buck. It would be super if it powered from a USB. Seems that as it plugs in, it could add some sort of fan function as well. Its a great idea, love that, curious about it anyway!
And I'd probably use it to dry pasta 😅
Heat rises, as most should know. Maybe a fan that has more power can blow air through a t-tube down to the bottom of the dryer bag will fix the issue of shirts not drying efficiently.
Try drying whatever with the shoe hoses attached and pulled out to the bottom as far as they can go. Then, the warm air will start at the bottom of the bag and vent out the top. Heat rises.
Oh my. I have 2 devices like this but neither of them are for drying clothes
05:32 BRLLLLLLL!
Always the best part.
Should try it without the bag, as i would think it would stop the damp air escaping.
I would say it had to do with opening it half way and letting the built up air escaping, but then you did the extra hour. Think it's one of those things youd want to wait a few years on or, like I've seen in the comments, just use a blow dryer. (especially if it's not your electricity you are using ;))
To me this seems like a fire hazard lol
The cord length may have been designed with British shaver plugs in mind, or more likely to save costs and make the storage compartment smaller.
You should have hung up the control socks. Because it is likely they would have dried just as quickly.
Excellent review. I will definitely be buying this for my cousin I don't like! Keep these coming!
cool soap dispenser review coming?
The only situation I’d be curious about with this would be with a swimsuit on a cruise ship. It’s always a little chilly getting your trunks on the next morning even after you hung them on the line. This I think would do the trick. Put them in there, go to dinner, come back, you’re good
Maybe cut some slits at the bottom of the bag to promote circulation towards the bottom? If just 1 shirt, it would air dry at that amount of time. Thanx for review! 👍👍👍
I feel like the bag would make it worse considering it traps the moisture from the garment. before i watched the video i saw the bags and thought they would be vaccum bags and the dryer would sorta vacuum-squeeze out a lot of the liquid before blasting it with air. this design is just a glorified hair dryer lmao