Samsung Ecobubble WF1124XAC review

WASH PERFORMANCE

To find out how good the Ecobubble WF1124XAC is at cleaning clothes, we put it through a series of tests using our stain strips. View our gallery to see all of the cleaning examples: dirty cloth is at the top of each sample; the clean one is at the bottom.

The Super Eco Wash 15C cycle is the one that Samsung’s keen to promote with its Eco Bubble technology and we have to say that we’re impressed. While the 40C Cotton wash managed a bit better in our tests, the results were incredibly close. In fact, you’d be hard pushed to tell the difference in the red wine test at all.

The 15C Super Eco Wash (top) produced similar results to the Cotton 40C wash (bottom) in our tests

Blood and cocoa removal was also very good at 15C, matching the higher-temperature washes. We have seen slightly better performance from some other washing machines at high temperatures, though. While other manufacturers usually state that their low-temperature washes are for lightly soiled garments, Samsung’s Ecobubble means you can use the Super Eco Wash for pretty much everything. It’s one limitation is that Samsung recommends a wash load of 6kg of less for this mode.

Blood/milk/ink combined staining proved to be a slightly easier job for the 40C Cotton cycle than the 30C Cotton cycle

Switching up to 30C and 40C cotton washes produced very similar results. However, the blood/milk/ink test strip came up slightly cleaner at the higher temperature, as was carbon black/olive oil.

The Synthtic cycle at 40C wasn’t so good and the strips here came out noticeable more stained. In particular, our blood-stained strip was still fairly dirty. Performance was better with cocoa and red wine. However, the Super Eco Wash gave better results with less energy.

Our cocoa-stained strip wasn’t that clean after the Synthetic 40C wash – the Super Eco Wash is much better[/a]