Review: Small and simple washer for clothes...
2025-08-14
I want to talk a new friends of this little family; a mini washer. This is the Camry CR 8054 which could easily be mistaken for the Adler AD 8051 or any other small washer from the company Adler. They have a whole range, but to my untrained eye the basically all look the same. Except the Camry CR 8052. That one looks a little different.
The washer doing its thing
The whole range of small washers seem to share the same basic traits, but let me just focus on my own Camry from now on:
- It can wash 3 kg of clothing.
- Spinning capacity is 1 kg of clothing.
- A maximum of 15 minutes for a washing program (you can always restart it).
- And 5 minutes of spinning.
How it works
Washing is quite simple. Do as follows:
- Put in clothing.
- Fill up with water. This is done manually.
- Put in detergent.
- Start the machine and wait for it to finish.
To start, you just twist the button to pick the length of the washing program and wait. It's a mechanical clock basically. Like a toaster.
Same with spinning.
When it's done washing, and when spinning, you take down the drain tube so the water can leave the machine.
My review
So overall, I really like the machine. It was a godsend when our Siemens washer broke and the technician didn't have time to come by until the following week. Here are some pros and cons.
Pros
- It's cheap. It was less than 70 euros.
- Simple to operate.
- Small and light.
- It works (sorta, see below)
Cons (problem section)
- There is no rinse cycle. I would have preferred that though that would have required a drastically different kind of design.
- Spinning is really weak, and if you use it too much, the machine overheats and has to cool down. This is not documented anywhere. At first, we thought it had broken! You just have to wait 15 minutes and it works again.
- I think it uses more water than a regular washer for the same amount of clothing.
- Spinning has to be done with only 1 kg at a time.
- No alarm when it is finished. Would have been nice.
Conclusion
Overall it's a nice little washer for emergencies if you don't have the time to handwash in bulk. Maybe also good for camping and holiday trips. Recommended.