Is there a way to dry your bed sheets in a dryer and not have them roll up into a ball inside the fitted sheet, and not get dry?

Here ya go.

Well, I set the timer for 20 minutes and pull the sheets out and undo the twists, separate the pillowcases and towels that are caught up in them, etc. Sometimes I pause it twice.

Another factor is how much is in the dryer at one time. More than one set of sheets makes a tangle more likely.

Have pretty thin sheets and pillowcases. I just hang them up on the shower rod and crank the heat in the bathroom to full blast. A few hours later they are done.

I dry my sheets one at a time.

Yep. Dry them, especially the fitted sheets one at a time. Towels generally don’t dry well with sheets because their weight makes the sheet ball up around them. If it’s a flat sheet, I can successfully get away with drying similar weight items of a smaller size. But I still have to guard against overloading the dryer. The sheet must be able to move freely to prevent it from balling up.

Drying large swallowing items one at a time can even be about as efficient, if you go catch it when it’s done (you can note how long it took for next time), because one sheet can dry quickly by itself.

I think some modern driers even shut themselves off when they somehow detect it seems to be done. In fact, I noticed that when trying to dry a sheet with some other things, which got swallowed and were not dry but the drier shut off early, apparently because it thought it was done (temperature or no vapor in the air? I’m too lazy to find and read the manual).

This is all good stuff.
Thanks

Throw in about 12 new tennis balls. They work well when drying coats, too.

@kritiper
Why not old tennis balls?

@kritiper Too dirty.

@josie Wash them first.
@YARNLADY New balls??? OH! You meant @josie , right??

But don’t you put dirty stuff in the laundry anyway?

@kritiper yes, I got my threads wrong.
@josie We are talking about the drier, so only clean laundry. Yes washing the tennis balls first would work.

Dirty stuff in the wash, clean stuff in the dryer. Your question was about the dryer. Besides, once you wash the balls they’re clean and don’t need to be washed the next time you need them in the dryer.
@YARNLADY GA.

@kritiper, @YARNLADY
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