Originally Posted by Mimiqwerty

I’ve only used electric, but I remember my MIL (who only used gas) saying that my clothes smelled fresher than hers and that her gas dryer turned her whites slightly yellow over time. My DH won’t have a gas dryer—says he spent too much time as a teen repairing or replacing parts on his mom's gas dryer. Our first electric dryer, an inexpensive Kenmore, lasted for the life of three washers, but I washed cloth diapers and often used the solar dryer (clothes lines).