Cosi Home electric blanket review

As we slip from summer season to autumn and at last winter, it’s time to consider heating the house. With astronomically excessive fuel and electrical costs within the UK this 12 months, shoppers are searching for extra budget-friendly methods to maintain heat – particularly when in mattress at night time.

The reply? Electrical blankets. They’re not a brand new idea admittedly, and also you is perhaps postpone by the sub-par electrical blankets of yesteryear, however the tech has had a little bit of a resurgence lately with higher safety and, crucially, a lot better energy effectivity.

The Cosi Residence electrical blanket is one such blanket, aiming to maintain you heat throughout even the coldest of winter nights with out breaking the financial institution.

Design & options

The fleece materials of the Cosi Residence electrical blanket feels comfortable and thick, which helps you ignore the heating coils embedded inside. I nonetheless seen their presence as I slept, nevertheless it’s nowhere close to as noticeable as older electrical blankets from a couple of years in the past. It folds up simply for storage when not in use, fairly useful for summer season months, and it’s washing machine-compatible too.

Setup could be a little bit of a ache as, in contrast to most alternate options, there aren’t elastic straps to carry the blanket into place beneath your bedsheet. As an alternative, it makes use of cotton straps and loops that you need to feed underneath your mattress to the opposite facet of the mattress to safe it in place.

There’s far more faffing round in comparison with nook straps, and it was a reasonably large job contemplating my 48kg reminiscence foam mattress is sort of massive and heavy. Slipping one thing over the corners of my mattress would’ve been a lot simpler. You’ll be able to go away it undone, as I did on my first night time, however you run the danger of the blanket shifting and folding as you fidget throughout your sleep.

It’s value noting at this level that the Cosi Residence blanket doesn’t cowl the whole lot of your mattress, however reasonably the center part the place you’re probably to put, with the double dimension blanket measuring in at 1350 x 1200mm in comparison with an ordinary double mattress’s 1350 x 1900mm.

That’s pretty commonplace amongst entry-level electrical blankets, even when shopping for the proper dimension to your mattress, nevertheless it additionally means the highest and backside of the mattress are sometimes a lot cooler than the center, and that has woken me up once in a while. My suggestion? Measurement up when shopping for.

The blanket is related to the mains through a surprisingly flat cable, with the plastic controller sitting out of the way in which together with the mattress. It’s extra primary in operation than premium alternate options like Cosi Residence’s personal Twin Management electrical blanket with multizone heating tech that may independently management the heating in numerous areas of the blanket, as a substitute providing a easy on/off operate with three ranges of warmth to select from.

For reference, extra premium alternate options can provide as much as 9 temperature settings to actually dial within the excellent temperature for you. Cosi Residence’s electrical blanket primarily goes from a bit heat to fairly sizzling with little or no in between. Cosi Residence recommends stage 1 for a snug all-night sleep, and also you needn’t fear about overheating with built-in overheat safety retaining you protected.

Whereas I discovered the highest warmth setting to be excellent for a comfy sleep on a chilly night time (my room averaged 14 levels Celsius one night time throughout testing, so it was welcome!), it will possibly take fairly a while to succeed in that temperature. Cosi Residence claims 60-90 minutes, although I discovered it took nearer to 2 hours earlier than it reached its optimum temperature.

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That’s advantageous in the event you keep in mind to show it on a couple of hours earlier than you go to mattress, nevertheless it received’t assist in the event you neglect. That could be a fairly very long time to attend, particularly in comparison with the Dreamland Scandi heater sherpa blanket that takes solely 5 minutes to heat up – although at round double the price of Cosi Residence’s possibility.

How a lot does it value to run?

The query is, how a lot does it value to run? It’s an necessary issue to contemplate amidst rising fuel and electrical prices, in any case. The excellent news is that it’s impressively energy environment friendly.

We’ve calculated that at its most, it prices solely 2.5p per hour to run, or 20p to maintain it on for an 8-hour sleep. Contemplating the astronomical value of central heating, it may very well be a extra budget-friendly solution to keep heat at night time through the chilly winter months. It’s a miserable notion that we now have to do that in any respect in 2022, however that’s one other article altogether…  

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Worth & availability

As I’ve alluded to, the Cosi Residence Electrical Blanket is on the entry-level finish of the market with a price ticket of £39.99 that displays that. You do have the choice of paying a bit extra to get a blanket with extra superior options like multi-zone heating and extra warmth settings, however in the event you simply need an electrical blanket that’ll get the job carried out on a budget, it’s a terrific possibility.

If you happen to’re , you should purchase the Cosi Residence electrical blanket from Cosi Residence itself, together with retailers like Amazon within the UK. US patrons are out of luck although, with no US availability for now.

Verdict

The Cosi Residence electrical blanket is perhaps a little bit of a ache to arrange in comparison with different blankets available on the market, however as soon as it’s carried out, it’s a stable little performer that’ll hold you heat all night time lengthy.

It doesn’t provide superior options like multi-zone heating and extra superior heating management, and it will possibly take a short time to get sizzling, nevertheless it gives good worth for these on a good price range this winter.

Specs

• 1350 x 1200mm
• 1.25 kg
• Polyester
• 180cm energy twine
• 0.075kWh power consumption (round 2.5p per hour)
• Three warmth settings with single-zone temperature management
• 55°C most temperature
• Overheat safety