Submitted 10 hours ago by NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org to [deleted]
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Because “kochen” isn’t a good translation for the english word “to cook” - at least not in all scenarios. When used with an object (etwas kochen, like Wäsche) it means more like “to boil” or “to brew”. So you “kocht Kaffee” (but one never “cooks coffee"). And it certainly is not true that you “ein Steak kocht”! So there’s an overlap in meaning but it’s not the exact same thing.
This makes kochen a partial false-friend!
OK but how do English speakers say Kochwäsche?
I’d call the mode on the machine “boiling wash” or “hot wash” (which is probably 60 degrees rather than 90). But from other comments I’m understanding that Germans separate laundry into “Kochwäsche” and some other part(s), and there is no general term for that because it’s not common.
Dutch people: “ik ga de kookwas doen”
Fuck this show was awesome! Still got The Pusher song living rent free in my brain.
I’ve called doing dishes ‘food laundry’ on multiple occasions
Germans when other languages exist 😳🤯🤯😡
This makes me foxdevilswild!
DAS IST NICHT GUT, NEIN!
“Cooking laundry” implies that clothes are raw, and yiu made me think that, and I don’t like it.
Cooking laundry sounds like a fun way to say dishwashing.
Cock Wash?
And why isn’t “raccoon” “wash-bear”?
Ratton-laveaur s’élève, la tête haute.
Cock wash?!
If you’re mad or really like pain, sure.
Cook wash. Or more accurately boil wash, but the word for cook and boil is the same
boiling laundry then?
We don’t boil our clothes.
Like, what the shit? That’s just you. Your underwear is not going to last very long if you treat it that way.
Germans are weird about laundry.
You only boil white cotton underwear that can resist those high temperatures (90°c to 95°c) but germs and other shit can’t. Its the most hygenic way to clean those articles (which includes bed sheets and blankets.)
Boiling it must kill the elastic on the white cotton underwear in fewer washes
And the elastic on the fitted sheets.
And… sometimes I like to wear underwear with blue penguins on it…
Granted it’s hygienic but the rest of the world appears to find regular soap and warm water to be sufficiently hygienic without boiling.
I’m not saying Germans are wrong I’m only saying Germans are exceedingly more German than other people are.
I won’t argue that it is the most hygienic way to clean laundry, but I doubt it is necessary on a day to day basis. Most people don’t get their underwear or bedsheets that dirty. Hospitals, nursing homes, daycare centers - sure. But not your normal household unless someone is severely sick.
We personally only wash dish towels, cleaning supplies and similar stuff at 90°, the reason being that the 60° program on our washing machine uses up just as much energy as 90°, and we don’t need to use extra hygiene detergent when we do that.
Please, never work in a hospital!
if you underwear is not rated for 80°, then don’t cook it at 80°?
You should be wondering why the German word is.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 46 minutes ago
…and it’s also not “boiling laundry”