{"id":148111,"date":"2024-11-12T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-kittens-and-heated-airers-have-in-common-our-writer-tells-all\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T00:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:08:44","slug":"what-do-kittens-and-heated-airers-have-in-common-our-writer-tells-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-kittens-and-heated-airers-have-in-common-our-writer-tells-all\/","title":{"rendered":"What do kittens and heated airers have in common? Our writer tells all \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: the best gifts for Swifties, heated clothes airers, winter coats and the non-Tesla electric cars to consider \u2022 Don\u2019t get The Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereTesting heated airers is like weighing kittens. There\u2019s a meme in which a cat\u2019s weight is recorded by a scale as \u201c0kg\u201d because it\u2019s too light to register. I had similar (though less cute) results when trying to compare the best heated clothes airers by weighing laundry. My wet washing left my inaccurate digital bathroom scales unmoved at zero.There\u2019s little diversity in the world of heated airers. I sourced a dozen: some had triangle frames, some were winged, and others \u2013 such as my favourite, the Lakeland Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-tier airer (currently reduced for Black Friday) \u2013 had embroidered covers. Basically, though, they\u2019re all clothes horses that you plug in. Finding clear distinctions between them meant I had to devise fair, quantifiable tests, chief among which was a laundry weigh-in every half hour to measure how efficiently each airer dried an identical load. I ended up splitting each load into batches for weighing in turn (and turn, and turn again) on my tiny but accurate kitchen scale. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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