# Need Laundry Help (stains)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-laundry-help-stains/387610>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-laundry-help-stains/387610 "2007-01-11T21:42:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-laundry-help-stains/387610/21 "2007-01-15T22:56:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]  
What you must not do is use hot water because it sets stains. Until the stain is out you should be using cold.  
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That’s usually true, but not always. For berry stains and their ilk, immediately boil a kettle of water, then pour the boiling water _through_ the stain. It’s like magic. I have no idea why it works, or what other kinds of stains it works on, but it has helped me save many blueberry-dribbled shirts and at least one rasberry-victimized bedspread.

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