Letareus

Thanks for the response. I will keep in mind in the future to only wash the liner and not the pillow. To be clear, the pillow was not in motion for most of the 2.5 days. Most of the time it was in fact sitting there motionless between cycles, much of it while still soaking wet, while I went out, to sleep or did other stuff. I detailed exactly what happened, how and why in my op if you would take another look. Let me know if what you said still holds.

I just spent about 2.5 days drying a standard down pillow (in the dryer). It was not taken out of the dryer that entire time and before that it was only in the washer. The dryer was opened several times so I could check to see how wet it is. The reason for my concern is that I have recently been informed that I should never leave wet clothes in the washer for a very long time because they could grow mold, mildew, or bacteria. I don’t see why this can’t apply to a dryer as well especially in this case (see below). First, I overwashed the pillow. It was extremely wet after washing. So much so that it was like a giant bean bag and dripped a lot of water on the floor while being transferred to the dryer right above the washer even though I squeezed it out in the washer first. Then unfortunately it remained almost that wet even after a couple of cycles because I made the mistake of drying it together with a bedsheet, which wrapped around the pillow while drying which screwed up the sensor into thinking it was dry. This was on medium heat because that’s what I use for everything. Thinking it was fine I left to do things and went to sleep after returning home and didn’t check it until the next day. It was then that I discovered what had happened. I removed the mostly dry bedsheet and dried the pillow for several more cycles. I found that it was still wet. It was then that I discovered that the pillow had a pillow case still on it that was not obvious. I removed that and ran a couple more cycles. Now it seems dry. So my question to you is, is the pillow contaminated at this point? What about the dryer? And what about the bedsheet removed earlier? The contamination I’m concerned about is mold or bacteria in the pillow, bedsheet, and dryer. There is no visible contamination on anything, nor any unusual odors, but I’m especially concerned about something deep inside the pillow, as it was soaking wet and probably overwashed. Thanks in advance for answering my question.