Nevertheless, hot water bottles can also keep you warm when you are standing up doing things or when you are moving through a space or a building. even with the fire going there were times when the temperature was below 10deg C all day and lower at night. It was only with the invention of vulcanised rubber in the nineteenth century that more comfortable lightweight and flexible hot water bottles became an option. In many places in the US, men dont’ find it “cool” to wear a warm knit hat and would rather freeze).

So, either you use a separate kettle for use with hot water bottles, or you warm the water in the only household kettle and discard it after use. I have always been very fond of hot water bottles, and far prefer them to electric blankets which I find quite uncomfortable. A third option – a bit harder to find – are plastic hot water bottles without chemical softeners, which are rigid instead of flexible. I genuinly think that if some of your ideas spread, it might make a significant dent in our gas consumption (and costs of living!There are commercially available ones, you can find them with the word “Kirschensteinkissen” or “Chriesisteisäckli”. I’m a physics student at a university in Germany (about to graduate) and I have been reading my way through your blog, for the past year and a half (loving it!

The investment is minimal: a collection of hot water bottles and a kettle – the water can be re-used over and over again. The great advantage of heating the bottle in this way is that the same water can be used over and over again. Using an electric kettle – or a pot on the cookstove – makes it easy to reuse the same water over and over again, but it faces some problems too. In addition, advocates of Japanese water therapy claim that cold water is harmful because it can cause the fats and oils in your food to harden in your digestive tract, thus slowing down digestion and causing disease. Take a hot bath and then keep the water in the tub to warm the air, or use the water for a HWB afterwards.I’m looking at making myself a window quilt for my appartement this winter, I think it would be great if you could get other people on board doing this!