rinsing and washing itti bittis

Our washing machine's rinse cycle is 38 minutes long and I'm wondering, do I have to do a washing machine rinse cycle with my itti bitti's, or is rinsing them out by hand before washing okay? DS is pretty predictable with his poos so most of the time the nappies will only be used for wees, and given I only use part time, it seems a bit of a waste to do a huge long rinse cycle for two nappies!

I was wondering about the rinse before the main wash/rinse/spin cycle.

I guess you can - my rinse cycle is only about 3mins so it's perfect.
Could you let the machine fill up, swoosh them around a bit then let the water out before putting on the normal washing cycle? Would be a little bit more labour intensive, but perhaps not as much as doing it by hand?

I think (don't really know) that the pre-rinse is just as important for wees as when it sits for a while the ammonia concentration develops...I wonder how clean the nappies would get with all that ammonia in the water?

Edited by Jaune

Hmmmmm...

I'm thinking I do a prewash, normal wash (cotton cold??) with extra rinse for my nappies.... will take 2 hours or so.... friggen frontloaders! I don't mind, I can just pop it on at night and program for the morning.

Hoping this should get most of the powder out. We'll see!

I wash using laundry balls so don't need to use a rinse cycle to get rid of washing powder, so, I do a pre-wash rinse and then manually bypass the rinse at the end of the load. I can hear when the machine changes to a rinse cycle so just pop into the laundry and skip to a spin cycle.
One day we'll get a new washer and I'll be able to set it automatically

I love my laundry balls, I've been using them for almost a year now. It's great being able to bypass the laundry aisle in the supermarket and it doesn't aggrevate DS skin or cause his eczema to flare up.