Life Hack: How to use ice to get wrinkle-free clothes straight from the dryer

No iron necessary if you use this trick

Can a few ice-cubes be the answer to your ironing woes?

Some of the handiest hacks to know are the ones that not only save time, but they completely cut out a chore you hate doing. For many people, ironing is far too much effort but a necessary evil. 

For some who have newer dryers, a stem setting can knock many of the wrinkles out of clothes, negating the need to pull out the iron as the wrinkles vanish in the steam. It is a useful feature, but luckily there is an easy way to replicate its effects if your machine does not have that setting. All you need is a handful of ice.

By adding some ice cubes to your laundry in the dryer, you generate more stream which knocks the wrinkles right out of the fabric. When you open the dryer at the end of its cycle, you should have ready-to-wear, wrinkle-free clothes.

Of course, there are a few caveats to keep in mind, in particular the rule that less is more. This hack works best on just a few items of clothing. If your dryer is filled to capacity, it is unlikely to have the same impact on wrinkles. Lighter materials also offer the best results, so your cotton clothes will be most impacted by the ice, while heavy fabrics like jeans are unlikely to show the desired outcome.

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For a quick result, you can run a short cycle and add already-dry but crumpled clothing to the dryer. Add a few ice cubes to the drum, two or three cubes is plenty for this, and turn on a short cycle — often 20 minutes is enough to show good results. Your few items in the drum will look visibly less wrinkled by the end of the cycle and ready to wear. If you do not have ice available, try adding a damp face cloth to the mix instead to generate the necessary stream, or mist the clothes lightly with a spray bottle of water. The benefit of these alternatives is you won’t hear ice rattling around loudly inside the metal drum before it melts.

This hack works well in a pinch on clean, dry but wrinkled clothes — say you’re leaving in half an hour and don’t have time to iron as well as apply makeup, etc — but it is not practical as a permanent solution to your laundry woes. In short, don’t throw out the iron as it still has its place to un-crease larger loads of laundry as well as keep your utility bills down as running the dryer frequently to simply iron out a few creases will impact your next electricity bill.