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Choose the first step for a fabric stain by its family: protein wants cold water, oil wants hot, tannin wants detergent and never soap, and dye climbs the ladder toward bleach. The stain on the shirt tells you its family, and the family tells you the water.
The episode starts with the moves that hold for every stain - the care label, the white blotting cloth, the dull knife for solids, no bar soap on a fresh stain, no ironing - then sorts stains into the four families plus the combination stain that is two in one. It covers the enzymes that eat each kind of stain, the benzoyl peroxide marks hiding in the medicine cabinet, the rust-coloured stain that is not always rust, and the least-destructive-first ladder for the stain you cannot name. It ends with the famous remedies that make things worse, from milk on ink to vinegar on cotton.
