Years ago when I looked after an old farmhouse in Italy, the inside temperature at night in winter was often below freezing. Nevertheless, when I sent two dozen hot water bottles to friends and family as a Christmas present, the reactions were almost unanimously enthusiastic.

Alternatively, dive into our microwave wheat bags including neck warmers and heatable slippers as well as our standout microwave soft toys.It has a rubber gasket and plug, a pressure release valve, a funnel for filling, and a metal loop for carrying or hanging when not in use. Such heating arrangements have been used in different parts of the world, usually with hot coals as the heat storage medium. Additionally, heat pillows don’t wear as much as pvc/rubber bottles and there’s no waste associated with their use. Note: If you are going to switch between hot and cold use, it is strongly advised to purchase a separate bottle from our Extras page to prolong the use of the YUYU rubber bottle.

Instead of freezing or leaving the car running, a hot water bottle kept her toasty and she read away happily while she waited! If it’s large enough, it creates a tent-like structure that puts your whole body in the warm microclimate created by the water bottles. Such accidents are rare, because nowadays hot water bottles are made according to quality standards. Eine interessante Alternative, die kein warmes Wasser benötigt und im Kachelofen aufgeheizt werden können.

as an aside, I was asking last year for advice on an efficient wood stove, thinking I might get one of the soapstone wood stoves that are so lauded in the us, and a russian friend said to just stack stones all around my current old iron stove and it would yield the same benefits. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While serving in the army during a German winter a great way of keeping warm while traveling on a 432 APC was to sit above the engine cooling louvers.