Beautyrest Cotton Blend Heated Mattress Pad Secure Comfort Technology - Luxury Quilted Electric Mattress Pad with Deep Pocket - 5-Setting Heat Controllers, Queen, White

Why it's worth it

Queen and larger sizes ship with two controllers, so you and your partner each set your own side and stop negotiating. It's a cotton-blend quilted pad with a one-hour preheat, a 10-hour shut-off, an 18-inch skirt and a five-year warranty.

Both sides are genuinely separate. Queen and larger sizes come with dual-zone heating and two controllers, so your side has nothing to do with your partner's. That's the whole point of a pad like this. If you sleep cold and the person next to you kicks the covers off by midnight, you each pick a number and the argument's over. One thermostat can't do that. Two controllers can.

The one-hour preheat is the feature you'll actually use. Switch it on while you brush your teeth and the bed's warm by the time you climb in. Published lab timings put preheat somewhere between about 12 and 22 minutes for pads in this class, so a full hour is plenty of runway. Then you dial it back. Warming the bed first and lowering the setting later uses less power than running high until morning.

From our review of 6 dual-zone heated mattress pads

What we like

• +Both sides are genuinely separate
• +The one-hour preheat is the feature you'll actually use
• +The skirt fits the mattress you probably own
• +The safety basics are all here

What to know

• –Five heat settings is the real compromise
• –You can't tuck the controller under the covers