Exactly.. I prefer to lean them upright against a wall and place a small fan blowing at them. Let it run overnight. Completely dry by morning
I use the tried and true method of setting them outside on the railing and then forgetting about them for a couple of weeks until it rains
I just did this with my sons Vans. They grew black mold and I had to throw them out. He was not happy.
op forgot a couple words... that it was the tried and true method of getting black mold
I hear black moldy shoes are trendy now.
But the uv from the sun kills the bad stuff
Is there a way to get that somehow into the body?
only by injecting bleach
A couple leaves inside and a fear that a spider has taken up residence when you go to get them.
This is my favorite method, too! Lol
You can also use your refrigerator fan for this! Just prop them up against the base of the fridge.
Is your refrigerator running?
Then why does it have shoes on?
Well played good sir or ma'am
I do this. It dries them pretty quick.
I just stuff newspaper inside and let them dry by just waiting. My only use for newspaper nowadays
I usually just set them upside down on the heat/AC vent if you have them in the floor.
I do this too but I also throw in a few chunks of newspaper to help absorb it even faster. Seems to help but I haven't exactly recorded my results.
I use a large cardboard box, which has holes on four sides, alternatively you can use a milk crate if you have one. Atop this box or milk crate I place a box fan laying flat. I then remove the insoles and lay them flat on the fan, open the shoes as much as possible, and lay them face down on the fan, and run it on medium for a few hours.
I do this with work boots that would not dry quickly any other way.
Don't most dryers have an air-dry setting that doesn't use heat for this exact reason?
Yes… yes, they do.
This comment should be higher.
I had a pair of shoes that I put in the dryer on normal, and the soles warped upwards. Thankfully I had two foldable shoe horns that could for it to become more flat in a day, which helped, but one still curved up.
Not to discredit you at all because you're right, but these shoes in the video look a lot like my Skechers that are advertised as machine washable.
Washable sure but not dryable
Sure, just like all the wet wipes that claim to be fine down the toilet untill you talk to the professionals.
Also be careful with hot water wash as it may also soften the glued on sole. Use cold water.
I dont think I have ever washed anything using hot water.
great point- I should've added "unless they are made to be machine washable / dryable "
... you still can
Could one not just run the dryer on no heat? I do that for items I need dried but worry about shrinking and they are fine this way.
Or just use a fan
use low heat
Or no heat
Radiant heat can damage the glue or the foam, even running through desert valley, CA during the summer.
I mean, don't dryers have multiple heat settings or have my mediocre apartments all been some sort of luxuriously accoutremented palaces?
As someone who has lived on this earth for 45 years, I find not getting them wet does the trick
Turn it to air dry and don't use heat?
Don't buy slave labor Nike products is step one.
I don’t know who is downvoting this. Probably people who own a lot of Nike products and don’t want to be reminded that they are indirectly contributing to child slave labor.
Agreed. I ruined a few pairs before learning the hard way. I let them out in the sun and put a fan or air mover on high.
that's why you shouldn't use the heat setting? Otherwise you're fine...
I wish I knew this before I destroyed my favourite Brooks running shoes. 💔
I wouldn't use a dryer to dry my shoes as it wouldn't be an efficient use but you just need to turn the setting off high heat and they will be fine.
The problem I see is lack of airflow though.
Balling up newspaper (if you can get it...) is the best method.
Please explain: you are concerned about lack of airflow in a running dryer?
Edit: second question: you think newspaper is hard to get?
By tying the strings together and hanging in the dryer as shown, the laces will pull together and restrict the area inside the shoe. The opposite occurs when you put newspaper in them as it opens the shoe and the newspaper pulls in the moisture.
Everyone will be different obviously but newspaper isn't as available as it used to be so yeah it can be harder to get. The last time I looked for a newspaper (for making paper mache four years ago) I had to go to a couple different places to find a newspaper.
Actual lifehack here
Can conform I'm a shoe repairman, you could out your shoes in the dryer for a little while but it's about two steps behind putting them in the oven to dry. In other words be extremely careful.
Part of the reason a dryer tumbles is so that no part of the clothing is exposed to the dryer element for too long. The other reason is to flip it around in all directions to evenly expose all areas of the garment to the heat.
This solution keeps the same side of the shoe facing the same direction. Depending on the dryer you could melt or overheat parts of your shoe, decals and logos could fall off if the glue melts, and most likely it will take forever to dry because the insides of the shoe won’t get any exposure.
Way better way to dry a shoe is just to put them in front of a fan, with the laces opened up as much as possible, rubber side facing directly away from the fan, and with the soles out on the floor. They’ll be dry in a few hours.
I wish it was joy.
Maybe I’m just getting old but these TikTok hacks all have the same smarmy, smug douchey quality to me.
This “hack” doesn’t need to be a 15 second video. I didn’t need the cartoonish facial expressions or the gameshow style presentation. This isn’t something that he just stumbled across and wanted to share organically.
Most TikTok “creators” are desperately looking for any excuse whatsoever to have their vapid, inane thoughts go viral.
It’s all so transparent and tedious and uncreative.
Sorry to be so cynical and crusty. Maybe I need to take a break from the internet.
Nah, I appreciate your cynical crustiness. I felt the same way about the video but couldn't put my distaste for it so eloquently.
Nope, cynicism warranted in my opinion.
“Here’s how to dry shoes in a dryer” “Let me just walk to the dryer” What the hell is that about?
And yeah, why is it being presented like a Jim Carrey bit?
I’ve seen this guy come up on my FYP before and his videos really piss me off because every time he acts like he discovered the “correct and intended” way to do something in a smarmy way when in reality it’s a pointless hack that doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
The other one I saw was that he claimed when you microwave popcorn, the little slit at the top of the bag before you open it up is supposed to be used for removing all the unpopped kernels from the bag before opening it and eating the popcorn. But.. it just doesn’t make any sense, why would that be necessary? The kernels go to the bottom of the bowl anyway, why has there ever been a need to remove them? In reality, it’s just to help vent the bag but the people in the comments eat this shit up. What mostly bugs me is that he never presents it as just a cool hack to try but rather as the way it was always meant to be done… idiotic.
Even with tumbling, the heat is pretty hard on clothing. Air drying is ideal for most things. Screen prints on t-shirts especially last longer when not constantly exposed to heat. I still dryer my underwear, socks and towels in a dryer. But not much else.
The inside of the dryer is moving in a round fan like direction. The teeth or paddles inside the dryer help to bounce and move the airflow of the dryer. The fact that the teeth things are moving in a circle further promotes heat dispersion. I don't think it's something to worry about. I think people have been doing this fine for a long time.
If I'm reading this right, you're having the fan essentially blow directly into the shoe ("with the rubber side facing directly away"), you'll probably find it's quicker if you have the fan blow *across* the hole, so shoes just flat in front of the fan with the airflow directed across the top.
The fan will dry the shoes by essentially wicking away the moisture, if you blast the air into the shoes it'll actually take longer for that to happen! What you want is a constant supply of air with reduced moisture blowing across the top, as the moisture in the shoe is in equilibrium with its surroundings, throwing air into the shoe and having it get slightly trapped will reduce the efficiency.
This trick works for anything where you're removing heat or moisture, my favourite use was cooling down a uHPLC in the lab that was struggling in the summer heat by blowing a fan perpendicular to the rear vent, constantly moving the hot air from behind the machine pushes the heat transfer equilibrium towards the cooler end, so the hot air can more efficiently dump its energy into the lab and out of the kit.
You might be right about the orientation but somehow the air flow has to get down into the toe of the shoe because the moisture cant wick from the sole of the shoe through the top of the shoe very easily.
With my suggestion the air is still passing over the top of the shoe (allowing wicking) but some of the air is able to get inside the shoe and dry the inside corners.
Nah it'd work just fine, the moisture is basically always spreading, both through the sole of the shoe and then in an equilibrium with the water vapour in the air in/around the shoe, as it blows across it'll wick out just fine from the toe, as the air rushing across the top is constantly sucking moisture out of the entire inside of the shoe.
Like, this is specifically the only mechanism by which a flow of air dries things (with higher temperatures increasing the vapour capacity of the surrounding air, speeding it up).
So by that logic if I dry my jeans on a line inside out (pockets out, and exposed to air flow) they won’t dry faster than if I leave the jeans hanging outside-out?
In my experience flipping my pants inside out to hang them on the line dries the pockets much quicker. If I don’t the pockets stay wet.
That's because the pockets are more absorbant than the outer material, and the opening is far more restricted, so the equilibrium is heavily "shifted" towards the pocket material. This isn't the same for shoes, if you could turn them inside out then yeah that'd be faster still, but blowing air into the shoe just "baffles" the already moisture-laden air preventing it from escaping as quickly, slowing the equilibrium.
If you hung jeans outside in low wind, versus higher wind, the pockets would absolutely dry faster in the latter. Just use strong pegs.
i just bought a shitty plastic cone looking thing and flipped my work shoes/boots upside down and usually by the next morning they will be dry HOPEFULLY. Absolute worst thing about working in or around snow.
I just cram newspaper in them, they are always dry overnight.
Also prop them up so water drains away from the toe box, the hardest part to dry.
Wait, we aren't supposed to use the microwave?
Nice. My dryer came with a removable rack that fit between the unmoving back of the drum and the door, that you could set shoes or whatever on to dry; but if you tried to dry anything else (clothes, towels, etc) at the same time they would knock the shoes off of the rack. Used it a few times and it worked great, but we misplaced the rack, somehow, and could not find it.
Your hack makes a great solution.
Rack hack. Or rack for short.
I'm not sure if I should be disappointed that sub doesn't exist or not.
Rhack
Presenting: the Apple i-Rack!
Why would someone think to use the rack and dry clothes at the same time?
Probably because it seems wasteful to run a dryer just to dry a pair of shoes. If you're going to run it anyway, why not also throw in a small load of laundry?
In hindsight it makes perfect sense why not. But for the person new to shoe racks (as I am! I've never seen one for a dryer), it may not be immediately clear if the rack looks like it has a lot of clearance on either side and sits in the middle.
Wouldn't common sense register that an obstruction in the dryer such as a rack, would not allow clothing to tumble in the drum?
So that’s what the rack is for lmaooo
Damn...I used it to defrost a pork shoulder
I use it with steam mode to disinfect kids toys
Also for sweaters and stuff that are delicate
Do you think you stored the rack under the dryer and it just got pushed back further?
I’m so confused why are you drying shoes? Can they not air dry? How regularly are you meant to wash your shoes? Suddenly I feel very unhygienic someone pls educate me
FWIW, a personal trainer friend of mine was horrified at the idea of washing/drying running shoes because it fucks up the fit of the shoe or something? I never did learn how she cleans her shoes though
What’s the point in cleaning shoes that you use purely to go running? If they get covered in mud just hose them off but otherwise, leave ‘em
Most people who run run tend to find themselves in all sortsa weather.
I believe drying in high heat can also affect the cushion foam which can be a big deal for serious runners.
Washing them in cold water was fine for me. I air dried them though. If getting them wet was a big deal, no one would use them in the rain.
Part it, I would guess, is that air drying shoes can take eons. You’d want them to dry fast to wear again
best way to air dry is to put some kitchen roll/paper towels inside and they dry 10x faster it's actually impressive how much it helps
You don't really need to wash them. Like jeans, if you let them air out properly after wearing, and keep them clean of dirt, they're fine. If they start to smell long after a wear, then wash them.
And like jeans, folks just think 'After long enough, better wash' stuff. Then because people are lazy, they use machines.
Don't wash shoes in a washing machine, and don't dry them in a dryer. Water and heat can fuck with the glue, foam, material and everything else. Instead, spot wash them with a wet rag and some laundry detergent, maybe a quick dunk in lukewarm water, and dry them out in the sun or for a long period of time.
The best practices are these:
- Always wear fresh clean socks.
- Wipe shoes of filth if they get dirty with a damp cloth, and if they have dirt spots.
- Let them air out, best for more than 24 hours. This is why having multiple shoes helps. Runners often have multiple pairs of shoes as rotating them helps get rid of smells, but also keeps the foam and rubber lasting longer.
You would dry them when they get wet?? I stepped in my dog's present the other day and hosed it off. It took > 24 hours for them to air dry.
Probably wet from rain or snow and you need them dry quickly so you can go somewhere.
Example: after shoveling the car out in the morning after an overnight snow storm you need to go to work
This makes sense! I’m embarrassed that I didn’t think about other climates - I live in Australia and it’s generally pretty sunny so I can get away with air drying. Thanks for explaining :)
Right I have never once washed my shoes like this. But maybe I'm an outlier because they're all suede or leather? It seems insane that people just put their shoes in a washing machine.
drying with heat vs air drying will help to keep them from getting smelly as well
I have never once in all my years, put shoes in the dryer
Don't start doing it either. Air dry after washing them unless you literally have no other pairs.
They take three or four days to dry where I live. No other choice unless you've got lots of backups ready to go. For those who don't get it .
guy you avoid at parties
He looks like a college roommate that doesn't do his dishes and leaves the carton of ice cream in the freezer with just that little sliver at the bottom left.
I want to say this in the nicest way possible since I have nothing against this guy but damn he has such a punchable face.
He’ll tie your drink up with shoelaces and put it in the dryer.
He seems super happy about his hack. He'll tell you about others if you want!
"Hey did you know you're eating banana's wrong?" - that guy
This would be the type of guy I don't avoid at parties. He seems pretty cool
He’s unhinged Andy Samberg, I would 100% get drunk with him.
Had to scroll up again to see if this was r/lifehacks or r/whatcouldgowrong.
They could advertise these as the world's worst air fresheners, and double-dip in two markets!
I bought a shoe dryer a while back during a very wet winter and my work shoes couldn’t dry completely overnight. Seriously best decision ever. My area is usually hot and dry, but having this makes sure what when I wash my shoes they dry out gently no matter what.
PEET, The Original 2-Shoe Electric Shoe and Boot Dryer and Warmer https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B001J4HQ76/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_V422CZYDN5H48KJT55SP?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I also don’t have a washer/dryer in my apartment, and spending coins for drying shoes only is very expensive.
I'm surprised I had to go this far down in the comments to find someone else that used a shoe dryer. Seriously the best thing ever, gentle heat, even gets rid of any sweat from the day before. My work boots go on the dryer when I take them off and stay there till I use them again. Bonus is putting on warm shoes in the morning...
That guy is really into himself
For those you have to put them straight in the garbage
Why was he acting that way
Kay there bud. Keep it in your pants. Geez.
Too bad there isn’t a nearby star that can dry the shoes by leaving them outside
This man has a punchable face
It's the greatest achievement of his adult life.
Alright, dude. You’re drying shoes, not curing cancer. Get over yourself.
I want to smash this guys fucking face in.
Holy shit this
I want to buy him shampoo and a beard trimmer.
Instructions unclear. Burned down laundromat
This guys facial expressions annoy the fuck outta me for some reason.
what do you own a dryer for? can you not wait 24hrs for those wet shoes to dry? not many ppl own one in my country, and it's not for a lack of funds. dryers are also horrible for fabrics, like hang em up for fucks sake. what a waste of electricity.
Agree. Lived in small apartments, rooms, in winter or rain, never had an issue drying my clothes without a dryer. I think there is another view regarding energy consumption in the U. S., there doesn't seem to be a high awareness about it.
Energy is really cheap over here too. Avg. US energy bill for a household is like $117 USD.
Here's an easier method... Buy a boot dryer. It works for all shoes.
I jam crumpled newspaper tightly into the shoes and change it every couple of hours. Seems to speed up the process.
You guys have dryers?
His faces at the end remind me of Olan Rogers.
So, the idea is to dry your shoes and ONLY your shoes? This is a terrible idea.
I find it's just easier to stuff the shoes with newspaper; they'll be dry by morning
I see this guy also immediately lost his dryer rack after buying his dryer.
The guy from the Spin Doctors has aged well.
Or use shoe rack accessorie
I bury mine in a 5lb bag of rice.
If it's cold where you live right now and your heat is running, just leave them on one of the vents overnight.
I don’t like his tone.
I just put them next to the fridge at night.
I'm reading all these comments and wondering why people are drying shoes in the first place. If it because of rain/stepping in a puddle etc then stuffing the shoe with newspaper dries them overnight completely and leaves them smelling a bit like paper(which I like). If anything else I am not sure if the same trick would work
This guy saw a video of someone doing this and thought, ”wow, this is amazing, you know what the world needs? Another video of someone else doing it!”
Thanks walmart Bo Burnham
Is this the even stupidly twin brother of Aston Kutcher?
I'll be honest. I've come across this info in far less annoying ways.
Yep. I wanted someone to throw paint on him or something
WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME? I DIDN'T HOLD THIS KNOWLEDGE FROM YOU.
75% of the shit this dude says is fake and not a hack. It's so fucking annoying
I believe kuklumpa will remain an internet thing. Be proud of yoirsf.
Ok, this guy is all over social media, how he didn't know all these things boggles my mind.
I am really annoyed by the word "supposed" here. No dryer manufacturer ever intended users to do this. Who is the authority here? Is it this random guy?
🤦♂️How did I never.......?!
How are you enjoying the process of putting your shoes in the dryer so much
Most dryers come with a rack for drying thinks like shoes. That's how you're supposed to dry them.
"How you're actually supposed to"
Oh, says who? Did I miss the meeting where we all decided on correct and incorrect way to dry shoes?
My only thought running through my head during this video…”fuck this guy.”
I couldn't agree more. I dont know exactly why either haha
Major Chris Delia vibes and not a compliment
This is absolutely incorrect.
DO NOT HEAT DRY FUCKING SHOES WITH FOAM SOLES.
Take your shoelaces out, put them in a delicates bag and wash them seperately.
Air dry your fucking shoes. If you live in a muggy area you may need an antifungal spray.
I have never dried my shoes in a dryer. For that matter, I have never washed my shoes in a clothes washer.
Me neither. I wear socks when I wear shoes. I find the only people that have stinky shoes put them on with bare feet. If it comes to the point they smell I throw them away and get a new pair.
Found the guy with disgusting shoes.
And it hasn't affected me in the least. I don't notice other people's shoes, unless they stepped in shit or something. I don't think most people care about having washed shoes.
Omg! His face like.. “yeah you’re welcome!”
But really… thanks 😅
What do you do for shoes with no laces?
Put them in a pillow case and jam the pillow case in the door of the dryer. Also, put the heat on as low as it will go so you don't melt anything.
or just put it in the sun
Instruction unclear, I burned down my apartment complex.
“Bob Burnham”
🙈
And voila' see the soles come unglued in less than 30 min
Shouldnt this be in the parady version of this sub?
- you shouldnt dry shoes....
- the washer spins for a damn good reason....
thanks bo burnham
I swear I saw this on TikTok last night at least 4 or 5 times in stitches! Then I saw the original. I get on Reddit and boom there it is again! Maybe I am supposed to wash my tennis shoes
Who machine washes and dries shoes ... dats weird
You can see the defeated realisation in his eyes. "Why didn't anyone tell me about this? WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME?! Fuckers!"
God. Dammit.
That’s church yo
Thanks Bo
How did people not know this.....
Legend
Mind blown
Next-level facial expressions.
What about just leaving them outside a couple of days . Just saying
That’s an old ass dryer!
Wow,it's simple.y does no one else know that?u never here about it.
Ashton Kutcher vibes
I absolutely LOVE his attitude and energy. That's how I feel when I see online tricks that make my life easier.
MF nailed that delivery. A+
It's not recommended to dry your shoes in the dryer. The foam sole doesn't respond the same way and the extreme heat negatively affects them: https://www.nike.com/a/best-way-dry-shoes