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Washing machines come with more bells and whistles than you can count: different rinse cycles, built-in sensors and fancy apps, to name a few. Before you can even think about those things, though, you ...

Front-load washers—those that open up at the front of the machine instead of the top—deliver superior cleaning performance and are incredibly efficient. Our tests have found that front-load washers ...