Is it possible to dry jeans on a battery if dry pants are urgently needed?

It is believed that drying jeans on a battery (as well as other forced hot methods) is not possible. In most cases, there is no reason to doubt the truth of such a statement, since wet tissue is very sensitive to deformation, and high temperature provokes this very deformation. However, in some cases, jeans can withstand the test of heat.

When jeans are different for jeans

If 100 years ago all the trousers of this type were made of one canvas (hemp canvas), then in our time the industry has a huge amount of “jeans” materials. Therefore, when it comes to how to dry jeans, it is important to consider the composition of the fabric from which they are sewn.

• Cotton in its pure form is less and less common. Despite its environmental friendliness, clothing made from 100% cotton has a number of significant drawbacks (for example, it is easily wrinkled and poorly ironed, wears out quickly and does not hold its shape). After drying on a battery, cotton jeans shrink by about 2 sizes. Naturally, not forever - it’s worth putting them on, and 10-15 minutes later they will return to their previous state. It is much worse that under the influence of high temperature, a special glue is destroyed, with which the fabric is impregnated in the production, and the fibers begin to become soaked. After one emergency drying with trousers, nothing will happen, but if you practice this constantly, then after the fifth or sixth time their appearance will leave much to be desired.
• Polyester mixed cotton differs from the previous fabric in practicality and wear resistance. The amount of polyester in the composition most often varies from 8 to 20%. If it is less, it almost does not affect the physicomechanical properties of the fabric, if more, it changes them so significantly that it negatively affects the hygienic qualities of the material (including hygroscopicity and air permeability). Jeans with a high polyester content, if necessary, can be hot-dried on a battery or in a tumble dryer, but their service life will still be reduced several times.
• Elastane cottonIt is usually used for tailoring tight-fitting models (such as skinny, slim and jeggings). When exposed to high temperatures, the elastane stretches and forever loses the ability to compress, so emergency drying will end badly for trousers - firstly, they will significantly increase in size, and secondly, ugly “bubbles” will appear in the knee area. This cannot be fixed.

Responsible manufacturers always put on a tag sewn into jeans information on acceptable drying methods. If there is a pictogram in the form of a crossed out square inside which a circle is drawn, the product can only withstand drying in the open air. There is a dot in the center of the circle - it means that the pants can be dried in a car at a moderate temperature; two points - it is allowed to use the high temperature mode (drying on the battery will not harm such jeans).

How to dry jeans quickly?

The surest method, which does not entail any consequences, is an imitation of natural drying, but in a somewhat accelerated version. To understand how to carry out such a process, you should understand how the clothes hung on the ropes dries.

For most, this will come as a surprise, but the disappearance of water from the fabric is not related to the high temperature of the air or nearby objects. Drying of linen is based on the physical principle of vaporization, which in turn is related to such a concept as humidity.

The water absorbed into the jeans consists of many small particles - molecules moving continuously and randomly. When some of them go from the thickness of the material to the surface, they are faced with the fact that the environment (that is, indoor or outdoor air) is less saturated with moisture than fabric.

Accordingly, the distance between water molecules in the air is less, and they move much more easily. Those that were on the surface of jeans "go into the open swimming", mixing with air, and their place is occupied by new ones - those that used to be in the thickness of the fabric, and everything repeats itself. This process is called evaporation and continues until the level of humidity of the air and linen becomes the same or until all the moisture comes out of the fabric.

Since not only liquid but also solids can evaporate, clothes can be dried even in cold weather, when the water contained in the material crystallizes and turns into ice.

There are several ways to speed up the evaporation process:

• Raise the ambient temperature - for example, turn on the heater.
• To reduce the humidity level in the room is the easiest way to do this by opening a window, but this method categorically does not work in rainy weather and in cities where, due to proximity to the sea or ocean, the air is always excessively humid.
• To create active air flows - that is, to direct a fan on wet jeans or to arrange a draft in the room.

It is not forbidden to combine several methods - for example, to use a hairdryer (which, albeit locally, raises the air temperature, and at the same time also contributes to its rapid movement).

Is it worth the risk of jeans, if hot drying is contraindicated for them, everyone decides for himself. But in any case, it is worth remembering that there are many alternative methods - safe and no less effective.