Portable Heaters
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's getting colder and with the cost of living rising, how best to heat our homes in the most efficient way possible has become a big question.
Listener Ken got in touch about a new kind of portable ceramic heater he's seen advertised, promising to heat your room using 30% less energy.
Greg Foot teams up with Octopus Energy to run it through the evidence mill and test it against three other types of portable heater: a convection heater, a fan heater and an oil-filled radiator to find out which gives the most heat for the lowest energy used. The aim is to find out which portable heater is best for heating you, and the room you're in. And how does all that compare to using gas central heating?
This series, we’re testing and investigating your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad and wonder if there’s any evidence to back up a claim, drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our new WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: GREG FOOT PRODUCER: SIMON HOBAN
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that cuts through the advertising hype to find out whether the latest promising-sounding wonder products really deliver on their bold claims. |
| 0:55.6 | Are they the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS? |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you so much for all the suggestions that you've been sending me. |
| 1:03.5 | Please do keep them coming. You can email us on sliced.bred at BBC.co.com.uk or send us a |
| 1:09.2 | WhatsApp voice note to 07543- 306-807. I have had multiple requests for this |
| 1:16.5 | week's wonder product. To introduce it, I'm calling up Ken Viteasy in Aberdeen. |
| 1:25.1 | Hello, Ken. Hello, Greg. How are you? Yeah, good. How are you doing? Excellent. Thanks for getting in touch, Ken. Hello, Greg. How are you? |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, good. How are you doing? |
| 1:29.4 | Excellent. |
| 1:34.9 | Thanks for getting in touch, Ken. Your email is brilliant. Tell me all about it. |
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