Washing underwear in hotel coffee maker slammed as ‘disgusting' as influencer faces backlash

A TikTok influencer is responding to outrage online aft seemingly recommending that her followers usage a edifice java shaper to lavation their underwear portion connected the road. 

Influencer Tara Woodcox, who has implicit 700,000 followers connected the platform, incurred wrath aft her November 2025 video showed travelers however to cleanable their underwear utilizing a java machine.

In the clip, Woodcox suggested placing the garment successful the java filter compartment and moving the brew rhythm — truthful that blistery h2o could travel implicit it.

"You adjacent it, you property brew, and it puts scorching blistery h2o done it," she said.

After the TikTok ideo gained traction, Woodcox clarified that she ne'er really washed underwear herself successful a java maker.

Influencer Tara Woodcox shared a video demonstrating a question hack (not pictured) that uses a java maker. Some radical reacted with outrage astir the suggestion.  (iStock)

In the caller societal media post, she claims the thought was thing she had heard astir years earlier — but had not personally tried.

"I've ne'er really done that — but this is truly funny, you guys," she said.

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Woodcox besides noted that she typically avoids utilizing edifice java makers altogether due to the fact that of concerns astir cleanliness.

Still, the archetypal video has continued circulating crossed societal media, with galore users expressing daze implicit the thought of utilizing a shared edifice appliance successful the mode she supposedly suggested.

Woodcox (not pictured) described placing underwear successful the java filter, moving the brew rhythm connected a edifice java shaper — past utilizing a blowdryer connected the clothes.  (iStock)

"So each edifice volition present beryllium adding a 'do not usage appliances for thing different than their designed purpose,'" 1 commenter wrote connected Instagram.

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Others said the clip made them reconsider which items they usage successful a edifice room.

"I volition ne'er usage a edifice country java shaper again!" a idiosyncratic chimed in.

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"This is wherefore we lone portion astatine [the] meal array astatine [a] edifice edifice and not successful [the] room. We don’t usage it," a commenter wrote connected Instagram.

Many users questioned however the proposition could ever beryllium considered acceptable.

Comments rapidly poured in, with galore radical connected societal media questioning wherefore anyone would ever usage a java instrumentality to cleanable their underwear. (iStock)

"How could she deliberation this was OK? It’s revolting," different idiosyncratic said. 

Whether oregon not she's ever washed underwear successful a java maker, Woodcox included a step-by-step usher for her followers successful the archetypal video.

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The influencer besides said radical could usage the hotel's blowdryer to adust the garment.

"You got yourself a cleaner brace of underwear to wear," Woodcox said successful the archetypal video.

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She added she was amazed by however galore radical were already acquainted with the hack.

She said successful the archetypal video, "I learned it years agone from a person who was a formation attendant, and it’s brilliant."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the influencer for comment, but did not instantly perceive back. On Instagram, her bio notes that she's a fittingness and nutrition coach, and besides a ma of three. 

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