The Strange Reason Some People Are Putting Aluminum Foil in Their Dryers

Over the year we have seen a lot of weird hacks, but nothing tops the strange reason some people are putting aluminum foil in their dryer. 

We are always in search of clever ideas. When I found one relating to static electricity when drying clothes, I was all ready to research it and test it myself. To my surprise, it actually worked! 

This hack promises a natural way that does not cost anything to stop your clothes from popping and sticking to each other in the dryer. If you have ever tried to peel apart two shirts stuck together only to get a jolt, you already know why this hack is so appealing.

1. The Trick

For this to work, crumpled aluminum foil into a ball and put it in with your clothes when you are drying them. I am not joking this will surprise you. We all have used wool dryer balls and even though many are convinced they fail every time and do nothing, the aluminum hack is a whole different level. According to many people using it, aluminum somehow using science eliminates static electricity. It is strange, right? 

2. The Test

After reading so many comments and posts regarding aluminum foil and static electricity. We decided to test it out.  

We put an equal amount of clothes in the dryers. In one dryer, we put three aluminum foil balls.

After the clothes dried up, we opened to see what we got as a result. To our disappointment, the loads exhibited an equal amount of static electricity and the clothes still stuck to each other. 

From what I read on the posts and blogs, the aluminum foil is supposed to pull the static electricity away from the clothes that are generated when clothes rub into each other in the dryer. In our tests, it did not work. 

3. The Solution

The best way to avoid clothes sticking into each other is by using dryer sheets. They are the best way to minimize the static charge present in the dryer when clothes rub into each other. Another way of avoiding clothes sticking into each other is by removing the items before they are completely dry. 

The drier the clothes are and the more they rub into each other, the more static charge they produce. 

There you have it. We have experimented with the trick or hack of putting aluminum foil in the dryer but it did not work for us. If you want to get rid of the annoying static charge, it is either dryer sheets or getting your things out before they are completely dried out.