Thread: how to prepare a hot towel

Hot towels by themselves have two drawbacks for me: they don't press down hard enough, and they don't stay hot long enough.

My wife has a bunch of microwave hot pads. These are "pillows" full of hard corn. You put them in the microwave for three to five minutes, take them out, then use them as hot pads on an offending body part. They stay hot for a very, very long time. I'm sure there are a bunch of places you can buy them on the internet.

So what I do for hot towels... soak a towel in hot water from the faucet while a hot pad heats in the microwave. Lay the hot towel over my face, and place the hot pad over the top. The hardest part is not falling asleep! Five minutes of this, and your whiskers will just about fall off your face with a stern look.

Afterward, be sure to set down the hot pad damp side up. The residual heat will have it completely dry by the time it cools off.