Laundry hack will dry clothes in '5 minutes' and stop condensation forming

19 January 2024 , 09:59

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The tip can be useful when you're trying to dry clothes during winter (stock photo) (Image: Getty Images)

Drying your laundry can take up a lot of time and space as you try to find new surfaces to hang items out on - especially in freezing cold weather when it's tough to dry things at speed.

Fortunately, one organisation expert has a hack for you that will allow you to dry clothes in just five minutes with no tumble dryer, heating or gusts of wind required.

Tor Rydder has shared his "burrito method" of drying as a travel hack, which works if you need to dry something quickly at any time. On his YouTube channel Organizing TV, he shows the technique which only requires a towel and the floor.

"To do the burrito method, we place a newly washed T-shirt down on a towel. Then we start by folding the T-shirt over, like so." Folding the top with medium sized flaps, he layered them on top of each other until the T-shirt is fully encased in the towel.

"Once we reach the top, we start stepping down on the towel," he said, pressing his knees into the rolled-up towel. "The reason we do this is because the towel will absorb all of the water from the burrito. Once we unwrap it, it will be a lot drier." He explained you could also wring out the "burrito" if you'd rather not step or kneel on the towel. Once you have kneeled or wrung out the excess water, you can unroll the towel and retrieve the T-shirt.

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"I do find that this method will easily reduce drying time from overnight to a couple of hours," Tor explained. "If you're in a hotter climate, you can probably wear it out and it'll dry on its own." On its own, this method should dry your clothes in a couple hours, but if you don't have time and you're in a cooler climate, he recommends blasting the top with a hair dryer for five minutes maximum.

If you don't have time to wait for a couple of hours and you're in a colder place, he recommends putting the top on a hanger and blasting it with a hair dryer for a maximum of five minutes. If you don't have a hanger, you can put it on a sink or chair.

Fans were in awe of Tor's "burrito method". One woman confirmed that this method works, stating "I used these two methods and my clothes were dry in five minutes." Another person stated "This man is a genius. You're a lifesaver."

Have you tried this method? Let us know in the comments.

Zahna Eklund