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 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.
@freakin'reviews @freakinreviews temu has a similar hanger style drying system for $25 as well as a drying system with a garment bag that multiple clothes can be hung in. The attachment is a small blower box and hose for $28. It would be great to see how these temu options work for half the price.
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.
I think this is an absolutely worthless device. You could have hung the t-shirt on a hanger anywhere outside or inside and it would dry within 1 hour - without using any electricity. For the shoes, a hair dryer would work better and quicker. 3:11
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 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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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
@@jamesturner44 The problem is that the air is moist which inhibits drying. The air needs a way to get the moisture out of the bag or it will take much longer to dry the item of clothing.
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.
I never tried this one but it seems ridiculous that you can only dry one thing at a time and sometimes for 3 hours! The shoes were okay but what if you have to be somewhere in an hour and need 3 or 4 things dry to wear. When I’m in a hotel and need a dress, for example, dry and clean without wrinkles, I just hang it up in the bathroom with the shower on with hot water. It always works for me. It also kinda drip-dry. The only problem is that you have to pack a few hangers from home cuz some of the hangers at hotels don’t have hooks on the end and have to stay in the closet probably so people don’t steal them. Just my 2 cents. Who has 6 or 9 hours to dry their clothes one piece at a time unless you do it in the middle of the night! I think this thing is dumb and misleading. It’s not a dryer. It’s a one-at-a-time very, very slow dryer 😮thing.
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.
This would make more sense if you were using it after a washing machine since they spin out water much better than you do with your hands. Especially if youre traveling in countries without dryers.
How much juice does this thing pull? Seems like an AWFUL waste of electricity to run this thing for over 2 hours to dry a t-shirt. That's REALLY bad coming from me because I hate obsessive environmentalists.
It's a good concept, but execution is bad. How much would it cost for a longer cord? As for drying cloths, I prefer to leave them in the sun,, Drying in te sun seems a lot more efficient,
lol.. if it takes over three hours to dry one shirt, I'd have to concede that it's better to just hang a bunch of shirts at once inside OR outside, and have them all likely passively dry far FAR faster. All at once no less. This products ummmm... just plain stupid... I mean, just grab your hair dryer and rig it ffs.
To travel with it, takes up valuable space in your luggage, and really, takes too long to dry anything. Just another gimmick that will end up in your ''gimmick graveyard"
Wow, could we have a comparison with a regular fan in a garment bag?? Seems like a waste of money. if you can fit that in your suitcase you would fit another shirt and socks.
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.
I think you would have had a lesser drying time if you would have wrung it out better. I have been hand washing my clothes for almost 2 years and the more water you wring out, the quicker it dries even with just air drying and thar shirt didn't look like you wrung it out very well. So maybe user error there
When u put the shirt in the bag I instantly said "nope"... already too much work and steps for 1 dam shirt and waaaaaay too long to dry one a$$ shirt. Waste of money, dont buy at all smh.
You are in a desert. If you simply wring dry a tee shirt and hang it with a small fan (like the ones you reviewed in the past) aimed at the shirt, wouldn't it dry faster than sticking it in a bag? It seems to me the bag is actually slowing down the drying process.
It's nice in theory, but poorly executed. The heat source should really be in the bottom with small vents or opening at the top to let the moisture escape. Even laying it on a table horizontally seems like it would be more efficient.
When travelling: wash your clothing, wring it out, roll it in a bath towel and twist to dry it as much as possible, remove it from the towel and shake it out and hang it up. Most clothing will be dry by morning if you do this before you go to bed each night.
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
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 ;))
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.
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?
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 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.
U should try using the clips to hang the shirt upside down halfway thru and see if it dries the bottom
A tshirt would dry by itself in 3 hours without this. Bag is definitely making this take longer.
I think an everyday hair dryer is easier for this
With no text in the thumbnail. I was like whoa....
@freakin'reviews @freakinreviews temu has a similar hanger style drying system for $25 as well as a drying system with a garment bag that multiple clothes can be hung in. The attachment is a small blower box and hose for $28. It would be great to see how these temu options work for half the price.
I just use my blow dryer . I take my own everywhere.
You live in Nevada so im sure if you left your socks outside on the sidewalk they would dry in like 5 minutes 😂
it looks as though you didn't ring the T-shirt out before you tried drying it.
Hair dryer and iron if you're in a hotel. Also, first roll up in a towel
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.
Ridiculous. A joke.
I think this is an absolutely worthless device. You could have hung the t-shirt on a hanger anywhere outside or inside and it would dry within 1 hour - without using any electricity. For the shoes, a hair dryer would work better and quicker. 3:11
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
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.
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 think the garment bag holds it back, at least for the shirts.
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.
50$ for a flesh light? Not bad. I’ve seen them cheaper tho.
😂
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.
The shoe attachment made my mind go directly to "DANGER! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" (yes, I'm showing my age) 😂
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The cost of running a hairdryer for 3 hours 🙉
Interesting idea but it really doesnt seem to work very well.
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.
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.
I had a larger version in my apartment since I had no laundry hookups. Got me through some hard times lol
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
I would guess that sitting wet shoes and clothing outside in the Vegas heat would dry them much faster than this device.
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
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.
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?
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
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!
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.
The difference between this and a blowdryer is that you have to hold the blowdryer.
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.
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!
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
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
I wonder if you could use it like to steam iron your clothes on a trip put them in the bag and have the wrinkles fall out?
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.
That would be nice to warm a bathrobe or kids pajamas for after a shower/bath.
Looks like another product I know of. One you wouldn't put on your channel. 😂
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.
It would probably work better upside down. Heat rises, so it makes sense that the heat isn't reaching the bottom of the bag
It would’ve dried so much faster out in Vegas heat 😂
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'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.
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.
Anything to not just use a clothesline like the rest of the world.
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.
What's the point of that bag. doesn't that trap the moist air?
Exactly my thought.
I think the bag is supposed to keep the hot air in, somewhat contained rather than the hot air just blowing out and away from the item drying.
@@jamesturner44 The problem is that the air is moist which inhibits drying. The air needs a way to get the moisture out of the bag or it will take much longer to dry the item of clothing.
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
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.
I kinda' wish you'd compared this to an old fashioned clothes line.
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.
I never tried this one but it seems ridiculous that you can only dry one thing at a time and sometimes for 3 hours! The shoes were okay but what if you have to be somewhere in an hour and need 3 or 4 things dry to wear. When I’m in a hotel and need a dress, for example, dry and clean without wrinkles, I just hang it up in the bathroom with the shower on with hot water. It always works for me. It also kinda drip-dry. The only problem is that you have to pack a few hangers from home cuz some of the hangers at hotels don’t have hooks on the end and have to stay in the closet probably so people don’t steal them. Just my 2 cents. Who has 6 or 9 hours to dry their clothes one piece at a time unless you do it in the middle of the night! I think this thing is dumb and misleading. It’s not a dryer. It’s a one-at-a-time very, very slow dryer 😮thing.
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.
A clothes dryer is not what I expected when I saw the thumbnail
This would make more sense if you were using it after a washing machine since they spin out water much better than you do with your hands. Especially if youre traveling in countries without dryers.
OMG! This looks like... ummmm... something you would buy from an.... ummmm... place where couples shop to spice up an aspect of their love lives....
How much juice does this thing pull? Seems like an AWFUL waste of electricity to run this thing for over 2 hours to dry a t-shirt. That's REALLY bad coming from me because I hate obsessive environmentalists.
It's a good concept, but execution is bad. How much would it cost for a longer cord? As for drying cloths, I prefer to leave them in the sun,, Drying in te sun seems a lot more efficient,
I would consider this for drying out ski boots on a trip.
lol.. if it takes over three hours to dry one shirt, I'd have to concede that it's better to just hang a bunch of shirts at once inside OR outside, and have them all likely passively dry far FAR faster. All at once no less. This products ummmm... just plain stupid... I mean, just grab your hair dryer and rig it ffs.
To travel with it, takes up valuable space in your luggage, and really, takes too long to dry anything. Just another gimmick that will end up in your ''gimmick graveyard"
Maybe for women's petit under garments BUT not for men's clothing. Great Review...
I can put anything wet out outside here in Texas and it will be dry in 30 mins…and my neighbors in AZ, CA, NM and NV can say the same.
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!🤗
Honestly it looks like an egg gadget!
Great review James, I am going to pass on this gadget......................I'll just use my hair dryer at the Motel and save my money
Wow, could we have a comparison with a regular fan in a garment bag?? Seems like a waste of money. if you can fit that in your suitcase you would fit another shirt and socks.
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.
I think you would have had a lesser drying time if you would have wrung it out better. I have been hand washing my clothes for almost 2 years and the more water you wring out, the quicker it dries even with just air drying and thar shirt didn't look like you wrung it out very well. So maybe user error there
When u put the shirt in the bag I instantly said "nope"... already too much work and steps for 1 dam shirt and waaaaaay too long to dry one a$$ shirt. Waste of money, dont buy at all smh.
You are in a desert. If you simply wring dry a tee shirt and hang it with a small fan (like the ones you reviewed in the past) aimed at the shirt, wouldn't it dry faster than sticking it in a bag? It seems to me the bag is actually slowing down the drying process.
It's nice in theory, but poorly executed. The heat source should really be in the bottom with small vents or opening at the top to let the moisture escape. Even laying it on a table horizontally seems like it would be more efficient.
When travelling: wash your clothing, wring it out, roll it in a bath towel and twist to dry it as much as possible, remove it from the towel and shake it out and hang it up. Most clothing will be dry by morning if you do this before you go to bed each night.
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.
I don't know about this. Seems like it takes a long time to dry anything unless it's really thin. I'll save my money for something useful.
What a piece of junk. It you have to wait an hour, it's already about the same as traditional "hang to try" methods.
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.
Savon the worst products I've ever seen. If you're going to take hours to try one piece of clothing you may as well just put it outside
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 hotel hairdryer works well to dry clothes.
You should have hung up the control socks. Because it is likely they would have dried just as quickly.
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
I can lay my clothes outside in the sun and they're dry in like 10, 15 mins. 😂 Cool idea tho.
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 ;))
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.
in the Nevada heat (and most the south USA) I'm sure the sun works x100 times as fast
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
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?
Gravity is a key component in drying clothes and was left out of the equation.