Idid not expect to have to write this, but I can say publicly and without reservation that I absolutely love my tumble dryer. I love its stern prompts to empty the lint filter or the water reservoir. I love the bossy beeping sound it makes when it has finished a cycle, asking me to stop what I am doing to attend to the fruits of its labour. Most of all though, I love the smell that this faithful matron workhorse casts around the house: a smell of clean clothes and boiled Persil. In short, the smell of domestic order. Sniff closely enough and you will detect the curious whiff of my moral virtue.

Martin Lewis, doyen of personal finance, otherwise known as Mr Money Saving, has branded the tumble dryer a ‘demon appliance’

Sadly, this is a minority take. Tumble dryers are now seen as the enem

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