Why are you called the tortoise?

I'm not sure, I love the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, and truth be told I've never been great at high speed. I think it's also motivational, keeps me going and focused on the bigger picture.

What companies have your family run?

My Grandfather had a gas stove manufacturing business and my Father at 1 point had the biggest stove retail business in the UK. I then started my own stove shop after my father retired and I stepped down when my wife got ill.

So that this company can remain impartial I deliberately distance this business from the other companies me and my family are involved with. I review and test stoves from all different manufacturers and do not have any recommended retailers for any of them.

How do you fund this channel?

I started off by buying products and reviewing them. This was hugely costly and the company survived by selling second hand stoves (after reviewing them) and selling stove accessories on this website. Thankfully through those years of work and financial loss, we garnered the trust of both the viewing public and manufacturers within this industry. Such that now manufacturers will send us products and pay us to make un-restricted reviews of their products without any outside influence.
We also continue to sell accessories and some spares too. And finally YouTube themselves will give a small amount of advertising revenue to us, which all together keeps this little channels nose above water.
We also now make some specific or requested content for companies that we are happy collaborating with. However that content is for their own use and distribution and is not uploaded or used by us.

Other videos about general knowledge, or meeting people/manufacturers in the industry, are not paid for. They are done by me simply for the love of the industry and to help people at home who need a question answering.

Gabriel