Does the dryer turn clothes inside out?

My washing machine does that to half of my T-shirts.

It’s not the dryer itself. It’s the elves that live inside the dryer. When the machine isn’t running, they snooze in the little holes built into the dryer’s drum. They also have very small brooms that are used to sweep up the remaining lint from the previous load; they deposit that in the lint trap for you to empty.

But when you turn on the dryer, the elves are doing several things:

1) if you have put several socks in the dryer, they steal one and store it in the dryer’s secret vault. That’s why you always are missing one sock after a load.

2) Some of the elves are on lint duty. They sprinkle lint powder from storage and the lint powder germinates and becomes full grown lint, which, as mentioned above, is eventually harvested and thrown away.

3) Others are on reversal duty – they turn stuff inside out. That’s to make sure both sides of the garment dry evenly. (Like cooking a burger or a steak)

One final point – the elves speak different languages.

If you buy a Samsung dryer, the elves speak Korean. An Amana dryer, they speak English with an Iowan accent. Haier appliances speak Chinese. And so on. That, among other reasons, is why you can’t use Samsung parts in a GE dryer – they don’t speak the same language and won’t get along.

Sometimes. I’ve wondered about this before, myself.

I leave that function to my daughter.

Magic! It’s the same magic that wads bedsheets and leaves them wet.

^^ And wads them in the washer, leaving me wondering if sheets ever get clean!

Yes. You’ve encountered one of the secret laws of the universe’s perverse streak.

I used to take special care with my late husband’s T-shirts so I wouldn’t have to invert them all at folding time. He usually dropped them in the hamper inside out, and I would turn them all before laundering.

Invariably, one or more would be flipped when they came out of the dryer.

So a couple of times, I deliberately put them into the wash wrong side out. Sure enough, they flipped back.

I wondered, but didn’t test, whether this would happen with smaller T-shirts. His were large V-necks, with plenty of room to go head over heels. It never happened to mine, but I seldom wore T-shirts, so they weren’t much of a sample.