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  • Design & Usability

  • Performance & Features

  • Before You Buy

  • By the Numbers

  • Normal & Delicate

  • Quick Dry & Bulky

  • Design & Usability
  • Performance & Features
  • Before You Buy
  • By the Numbers
  • Normal & Delicate
  • Quick Dry & Bulky

The 7.5 cu. ft. Kenmore 67102 (MSRP $769.99) is a dryer with a design that invokes a bygone era. This model's drop-down door and paltry cycle selection would've been state-of-the-art several decades ago. Still, it employs modern day sensors to help ensure that your clothes get dry. The 67102 accomplishes day-to-day drying well enough, but—like an old dog—comes up short when asked to perform specialty tricks. Not that you'd use an old dog to dry your laundry....

Design & Usability

The Lowdown

The Kenmore 67102 dryer has a "hamper" door that opens downward, unlike most modern dryers which open to the side. With a door that opens into the room, there's no need to worry if the machine abuts a wall—but you should make sure your kids don't use it as a stepstool. This Kenmore also has a drum light, so you don't have to place it near a window for lighting. There are few places the 67102 won't fit.

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A hamper door is a mixed blessing: It's easier to load laundry, since you can drop wet clothes onto the door and push them in. But it's harder to unload laundry because a fully-opened door means you have to stand an additional 15 inches away from the machine. The lack of a pedestal kit means you'll have no choice but to hunch over to fetch your laundry.

You could use the door as a place to fold laundry, but we felt the door felt flimsy enough that large loads may be too much for it. Either way, the hamper door is making a comeback, as evidenced by new models from LG.

Overall, this appliance doesn't feel like a luxury product. Nor should it: Selling prices are around $570, far cheaper than the majority of dryers out there.

Performance & Features

A single cycle that works

Boiled down, the Kenmore 67102 really only has one cycle: Auto Dry, which can be set to More, Normal, or Less.

With Auto Dry set to Normal at Medium, our test laundry dried in about an hour. The same thing happened when we lowered the temperature to Delicate. The Normal Auto Dry is the 67102's strongest asset. A dryer should get your clothes to a wearable state in a timely fashion, and this dryer does just that.

The 67102 only faltered on the tough comforter test. We wet a comforter and set the dial to Auto Dry More. Although the cycle finished up in only 38 minutes, the comforter came out only half dry. We see this a lot, since it's common practice to flip a comforter and place it in for another round. Keeping that in mind, after another round the comforter was completely dry, but it would have been nice for a single cycle to do it all.

As for features, this dryer doesn't have many. The only feature you can enable is Wrinkle Guard, which tumbles the laundry every 90 minutes after a cycle is over. The Kenmore lists the ability to turn the End-of-Cycle signal on and off as a feature, but that's hardly a selling point these days. However, yet again, we need to keep in mind that this dryer sells for less than half the cost of other models we've tested.

For in-depth performance information, please visit the Science Page.

Before You Buy

A dryer for minimalists

Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a big white box that gets hot. For large chunk of people, that's good enough. Sure, everything from the buttons to the door feel cheap. But guess what? This machine is cheap, at under $600.

The Kenmore 67102 is an adequate dryer for normal mixed loads. However, because it really only has one cycle, it stumbled when faced with special tasks like quick drying or comforters. Wrinkle Guard is convenient, and so aren't the drum light and hamper door. Did we mention it's less than $600?

By the Numbers

Science is the backbone on which we frame our reviews. With dryers, it comes down to how well the core cycles dry. In this section, we'll go over how well the Kenmore 67102 did with Normal, Delicate, Quick, and Bulky loads. Normal and Delicate test loads consist of eight-pounds of laundry wetted to 1.7 times its weight. Quick loads are made up of four-pound loads and are also wetted to 1.7 times their weight in water. Finally, in the Bulky test a standard comforter is wetted to 1.5 times its weight.

Sensors accompany every test cycles. These dime sized devices measure humidity and temperature.

Normal & Delicate

For the Normal cycle test, we followed the owner's manual and used Auto Dry set on Normal at Medium temperature. After running on average of 50 minutes, test loads came out 98% dry. Sensors placed inside measured a maximum temperature of 149.6°F. That all bodes well for the 67102. It means that the whole cycle remained efficient, not wasting energy getting too hot and damaging your clothes while still achieving a dry-to-the-touch state.

Without a dedicated Delicates cycle we used a Normal Auto Dry cycle set at the Delicates temperature setting. This cycle also did very well. Lasting an hour, it got test loads 96% dry.

Quick Dry & Bulky

The Quick Dry test requires a four-pound load consisting of an assortment of towels, sheets, and pillowcases. Since the Kenmore 67102 did not have a dedicated Quick Dry, we used a 30 minute Timed Dry, since it was the shortest cycle available. When the buzzer sounded, the test laundry was 83% dry—not bad, but not wearable.

For the Bulky cycle test we placed in a wet comforter during the Auto Dry cycle set to more dry. It finished 38 minutes later and was 55% dry. We turned the comforter around in the drum and ran the cycle again, and it got fully dry.

Meet the tester

Jonathan Chan

Jonathan Chan

Senior Manager of Lab Operations

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Jonathan Chan currently serves as the Lab Manager at Reviewed. If you clean with it, it's likely that Jon oversees its testing. Since joining the Reviewed in 2012, Jon has helped launch the company's efforts in reviewing laptops, vacuums, and outdoor gear. He thinks he's a pretty big deal. In the pursuit of data, he's plunged his hands into freezing cold water, consented to be literally dragged through the mud, and watched paint dry. Jon demands you have a nice day.

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