Originally published at: Victorian ingenuity: The radiator that keeps you toasty and your buns even toastier - Boing Boing
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Congrats BB! You were able to use the same image twice…
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I have the dubious pleasure of living in a farmhouse that was built in the 1940s by the original owner of the property. He had some interesting and occasionally clever ideas.
One is that he ran one of the baseboard radiator lines underneath the lip of the bathtub. In the winter, it helps keep the bath nice and toasty, and if you toss the bathroom mat over it during the night, you’ve got something pleasantly warm under your feet in the morning.
Mind you, that line then goes up to one of the bedrooms, so on one hand, comfy bath, on the other hand, there’s no good way to do any significant renovations to the layout of the bathroom without re-routing the line.
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Europe is packed with all sorts of dual-use cleverness like this. Bathroom radiant heaters that double as a towel rack/warmer, those cool French through-the-wall food coolers that use the winter chill, etc. Some things about Europe are incredibly stupefying and frustrating (warm produce, Spanish traffic management, dual-flush toilets that have zero consistency between designs so you never know which flush you’re choosing), but I find myself pining for a whole lot of their practical solutions in America.
My first thought as well. Only 34 more sausage rolls left before the license expires, though!
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In the odd world of renovations, finding one of these in Denver proved impossible. The only
one I found, the flippers were gutting and selling off every other radiator in the home but keeping that one as non-functional art. The stupidity of removing a fully working radiant heat system to install a furnace still makes me furious.
I did find htis stunner to fit under my low dining room window!
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I have never seen a radiator quite like that, but I have definitely left dough on top of a radiator to prove in the cooler months. It is quite effective, though you have to be careful about the temperature, and also produces a nice scent that only gets better when the dough goes in the oven.
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Well, that’s all very good but will it press my trousers?
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I see nothing dubious about this at all.
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PicBoing?
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If you can stuff it down your trousers, I imagine it’ll make quite the impression. As well as keeping you toasty and your buns even toastier. Hot nuts, anyone? 
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I’ve seen radiators with doors on and wondered…
Also useful for torturing orphans before sending them into the radiators to clean them.
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Crispy walnuts you say?
Chestnuts on a brazier!
(Ooo-er, missus!)
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