FWIW I have had this issue with front loaders when and only when I did not promptly remove the washing after the machine was finished. One load of t-shirts washed at 95 °C was particularly stinky because the machine finished in the evening, I forgot about it and only opened it to hang the washing next afternoon.
Oh, interesting. I almost never remove my laundry right away. I fit laundry around doing other stuff.
I wonder why that matters.
A pile of wet laundry sitting in a warm dark place for hours is a perfect environment for mold, mildew and other nasty stuff to grow. I try to remove the laundry as soon as it’s done, but on occasions when I forgotten about it and left it overnight, I’ve ended up with very stinky laundry too.
It depends somewhat on where you live. The warmer and more humid the climate, the more likely it is any dampness or moisture will lead to mildew quite quickly. I often use a bit of bleach (for whites) or vinegar (not both!) in the wash to help fight that. Definitely cuts down on the smell, though color safe bleaches don’t work so great at that part of it.
My laundry room is cool all year, and chilly in the winter. Anyway, i never have any mildewy odors. But sometimes the “clean” laundry smells slightly of my own body odor.
My Electrolux has both a rinse & spin cycle on the cycle dial and an optional 2nd rinse that can be added to any cycle.
Yeah. My general habit is to rewash anything forgotten wet in the washer overnight. I’m certainly not leading up to interrupt my oh so vital activities such as Doping just because the washer signals done. But I’ll generally move it along to the dryer next time I’m upright. Which is usually within an hour.
At this instant moment I have nothing in the wash but the last load du jour has just finished in the dryer. Time to refill my water glass. And also time to fold, spindle, mutilate, and stow. Sayonara for a bit … 
Leaving wet laundry in the washer overnight is certainly not recommended, but I don’t consider it fatal to the point of needing a re-wash.. It may cause wrinkling in no-iron clothing but I’ve never had a problem with mold or odours. And since my pinnacle of fashion these days is jeans and a T-shirt, I don’t worry much about wrinkles, either. I’m just civilized enough to hang up my T-shirts while very slightly damp and they’re find and wrinkel-free.
One thing I have always done, however, both with my previous front-loader and with the current top-loader, is always leave the door open when not in use to allow for thorough drying and prevent mold and mildew.
I had a plumber install a old-fashioned utility sink. Any heavily soiled clothes get pre-washed and rinsed in the sink. I had no choice. I sweat heavily doing yard work and working in my flowerbeds.
The modern washers won’t get those clothes clean. My other laundry gets dirtier from being washed with my yard-work clothes.
It’s only a couple t-shirts and jeans. It takes a few minutes to pre-wash them. Not a big deal.
It’s ridiculous that I have to manually pre-wash and rinse those clothes. But that’s the modern world of washing machine technology.
I regret replacing my old washer. It still worked fine. I thought it needed replacing after 20+ years. What I bought is inferior and will probably fail within 10 years.
Yup. It’s like the 20 years when toilets didn’t flush properly.
I don’t regret replacing my old washer (which was closer to 30 than to 20 years old) because it has finally died, and i hired a repair man to attempt to restore it. He said that what he did might work, but if it didn’t, i should give up. So i didn’t really have a choice.
Is this a front-loader or a top-loader? While some of the best front-loaders have been praised for their effective washing as well as efficiency, I still say you can’t beat a good top-loader, even the much-maligned “modern” ones. The one I chose has a central agitator which I absolutely wanted. With that, and adjustable water levels and selectable cycle types and durations, I don’t see why it couldn’t be every bit as good as the best of the old machines in Ye Olde Dayes. I’m certainly very happy with it, and it cleans really well even using much less detergent than Tide recommends.
It’s the front-loaders that try very hard to wash with a minimum of water that I’d be more suspicious of, but I admit that my unhappy experience with an LG front-loader left me skeptical of them – and that sucker wasn’t cheap, either. As I mentioned previously, I got rid of it when the main bearing failed, but I wasn’t sad to see it go.
That said, if you have exceptionally dirty clothes from gardening activities, it makes sense to wash them separately. That’s not really a washing machine issue.
I have a top loader Maytag.
The functions are limited. I can’t select a rinse by itself.