We Put a Humidifier and a Dehumidifier in the Same Room and Made Them Struggle
“I got a humidifier and dehumidifier for my birthday,” said comedian Stephen Wright. “I put them in one room and let them fight.”
What really happens if you force a humidifier to fight a desiccant? People have asked on Quora , Reddit , Yahoo Answers , Zendesk, and the acoustic guitar forum . It turns out no one has tested it properly. In The Adventures of Pete and Pete by Nickelodeon, Little Pete takes a test outside , which is just sloppy science. David Letterman ran theanti-climate competition in an open studio, which is just as useless. We decided to conduct the world’s first reliable test of a humidifier and dehumidifier.
We closed the phone room at Lifehacker’s office and turned on two machines: a MistAire Cooling Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier ($ 40) and a Pro Breeze PB-02-US Electric Mini Dehumidifier ($ 50). A hygrometer was turned on to measure the humidity. Then we waited. Check out the results above.