From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.

I'm Cairo Blackwell.

I'm Christine Sirclicette.

And I'm Rosie Garan, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.

Today's episode of The Wirecutter Show is called The Secret to Better Laundry.

Hey, y'all, It's our very first episode.

Hooray!

Love it. Our inaugural episode. Should we tell people a little bit about who we are and what we're doing here?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, Christine, what is Wirecutter? What does Wirecutter do?

Well, Wirecutter is a product recommendation service. We're part of the New York Times company.

We have about 140 journalists who

do rigorous product testing. And what we mean by that is they are very serious about the products

they test. What are we talking about here? So I'll give a couple examples. We've done a guide to

hiking boots. And for that one, our writers tried out 55 pairs of boots and hiked 1,400 miles over seven years.

I mean, that's a lot of steps, you know?

Another example, this one's kind of wild.

We did a review of fire safes, and our writer actually built a room and burned the room with all these fire safes inside of it.

I mean, that's the kind of lengths our journalists go to test things. Tried and true service journalism. Absolutely. Committed.

And we're also independent, which that means we don't let companies pay us to review their

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