The Insider's Guide to Better Bed Sheets (Encore)
The Wirecutter Show
The New York Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can grow any cotton in Egypt. |
| 0:06.8 | Egyptian is just the country it comes from, the country it's grown in. |
| 0:10.0 | It doesn't say anything about the quality. |
| 0:12.4 | Right. |
| 0:12.7 | Shout out to the Egyptian cotton lobby, though. |
| 0:15.5 | Yeah. They killed it. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Christine Sirclicette. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Caira Blackwell. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Rosie Garan, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey there, it's Rosie. |
| 0:36.5 | I want to let you know this is a rerun of an episode we originally |
| 0:40.4 | aired last fall. It's all about bed sheets. It's one of my favorites. Love Jackie Reeve. |
| 0:47.5 | In fact, my mom still talks to me about Jackie and about this episode a full year later. |
| 0:53.6 | So even if you're not in the market to buy new sheets, this episode hopefully will teach you all about the sheets you own and why you may or may not like the way they feel. |
| 1:03.1 | Hope you enjoy. |
| 1:06.6 | Happy fall, y'all. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello. It's nice to be here. |
| 1:09.5 | It's nice to be in September. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. Now it's like really crispy in the morning. It's beautiful sweater weather. Cuffing season. Coughing season. Cattlellog season. Get my home decor catalogs. No, I'm not with you on that. For real? Yeah. You guys still get that? Oh yeah. I get tons of catalogs in the fall. What do you get? I don't get a book sent to my house in the mail. Definitely not that. I mean, sometimes I'll get stuff on like my Instagram or my TikTok about, you know, like making your house a home for the fall, especially your bedroom, you know, new sheets, new pillows, everything. I get that too, actually. It's nesting time. It is nesting time. And actually, that's how I came to |
| 1:45.6 | the sheets that are on my bed right now. They're a nice pair of sheets. I mean, it's a direct-to-consumer |
| 1:52.1 | brand put on my wedding registry because they were not cheap. And I have to tell you, |
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