In my office at work there is a table; a big heavy quilted cloth covered table, with a heated plate in the center. It is only recently that I have discovered that it is a heated table.
In my last post I talked about the table in the undertaker's. Underneath was a bucket of lit charcoal. Over the table was a thick cloth. Everyone sits around the table with their legs under the table. The newer versions plug in. My best guess is that the whole idea originated from having a sort of oven around which people sat. This then developed into a table around an oven and from there went high-tech! The surface of the table heats up and there is a small inward facing heater in each of the legs. There is also a special warming plate in the center of the table to keep your tea warm.A very strange contraption , and personally I'd prefer an upper-body warmer; my legs rarely get cold. However, this is China! From the external point of view, they look like this. A small stocky quilt covered table.
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| My legs under an electric tea table |
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| A 'naked' electric tea-table. |
To me they look incredibly dangerous and a major fire hazzard, not to mention an excellent opportunity to burn oneself, that is why I have never played with the one in the office! Sherika is very interested in it, but she has a habit of breaking anything electric so I have persuaded her to leave it alone. We use the air conditioner to heart the room.
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