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I have one of these that has cherry stones in it. I much prefer the hot water bottle for two reasons. Firstly, I fully understand the failure mode of the hot wa

I have one of these that has cherry stones in it. I much prefer the hot water bottle for two reasons. Firstly, I fully understand the failure mode of the hot water bottle and have rarely seen one fail; on the other hand the "cloth thing that catches fire inside the microwave" is not a failure mode I really want. But most importantly, hot water bottles are really hot and much better at keeping me warm.

ColinWright 5y ago
We've had more than one hot water bottle fail and it's resulted in one case in a soaked bed, which was unpleasant and difficult to deal with. I much prefer the failure mode of "catches fire in the microwave". The fire is small (and mostly just a smouldering edge of fabric), easily contained, easily put out, and the failure is easily avoided. We've used both and settled on the wheat bag, but I recognise that other people will make other choices, and that's fine.