What does it mean when the washing machine smells farty?

Question

10 or so minutes into the load it smells awful for another 5 minutes. Do I have to clean something?

Answer 1

any hot white  clothes washing with bleach should take care of any problems in the washer.Try using a different detergent? or maybe it is the drain smell your smelling?

Answer 2

good question

try two or three taps of bleach into the machine before doing any washing, set it to rinse cycle and that should do the trick, after it has finished rinsing proceed to your normal washing.