No fuss, no mess, no spilling boiling water over your toes while you’re standing in a freezing kitchen. Welcome to the wonderful world of microwave hot water bottles.
Microwave hot water bottles are single- or multi-use sealed heat packs with heat-activated fluid inside. They come as traditional hot water bottles (i.e. a container filled with water, which you heat) or as solid packages whose filling melts into a heated liquid when you blast them. Microwave hot water bottles are safer, quicker and easier to store than traditional hot water bottles: they’re more compact (microwave hot water bottles have to fit in a microwave); they’re filled with exactly the right amount of water; and they don’t require that you wait for a kettle to boil before you use them. With microwave hot water bottles, those days of hanging around for the kettle, overfilling your hot water bottle and scalding your wrist, are gone.
Like everything else microwaveable, the beauty of microwave hot water bottles is their convenience. The slog involved in preparing and using a traditional hot water bottle often puts people off: with non-microwave hot water bottles, you pretty much have to know in advance that you’re going to want one, then you have to ferret around to find the thing, spend half an hour looking for the cap, forget to turn the kettle on – and then you’re back to the whole burning your hand with overspill thing. Microwave hot water bottles need as much forward planning as it takes to throw a sealed unit into a microwave and press “start”. So even if you don’t know you need one until you need one, microwave hot water bottles can be ready to go before you’ve given up on the idea as too much like hard work.
No fuss, no mess – and no waiting. Microwave hot water bottles are bringing comfort back from the dead.
