Boiling water taps, revolutionary or crap?

We have one and absolutely love it. I realize there are worse hardships to endure than boiling a kettle, but this thing is our favourite luxury ever.

it's witchcraft! Expensive witchcraft.
We have one in work and it's plastered in 'BEWARE! HOT water' because it scalding. Except for when it's not hot enough...

We love them. Had our first one about 12 years ago and became instant converts. Moved last year, re did kitchen in new house recently and it was non negotiable.
The new one takes up only a very small amount of cupboard space btw, not a whole cupboard which a pp referenced.
In both houses we chose to have a stand alone Qooker, and a normal
mixer tap separately. We stayed in a house with an all in one once and found it annoying not to be able to use both at once, and to have to think about water temperatures.

I love mine. I have the 5 in 1

Absolutely love ours and use it loads - teas, coffees, pasta, eggs, making stock, cleaning baking trays.
Sometimes you just need a small amount of boiling water and that it’s not worth boiling a kettle.

I like the idea that it won't generate the clouds of steam that a kettle does, so you would reduce the humidity produced in the kitchen and in turn condensation.
But I haven't had one yet and an reading with interest as well be getting a new kitchen in a few months.

We have a Grohe and I love it.

You need to let it run off for a few seconds, until you see steam, as there will be water left in the pipes from the last use that has cooled. If you do this the water is hot enough for lovely tea.

Also I’ve never had spluttering

I love our quooker.

I wanted one when we had our kitchen done recently, started a thread like this, got a lot of negative responses, didn’t get one and regret it every day! 😫

I decided against getting one as we don't use our kettle much, we also have a power-boost setting on our induction hob that boils quickly for pasta etc, they also take up cupboard space. Also it's a huge expense!

My main fear (possibly justified possibly not) was that my kids would scold themselves on the tap.

I thought it was a gimmick but l was wrong. It is expensive and does take up a chunk of space in a cupboard (but not the whole cupboard).
However, I use mine constantly and we’ve never had any issues. We use it for our many teas and coffees, pasta, boiling potatoes. I mop the floors a lot and the use the tap to fill the mop bucket. I wouldn’t have a kitchen without it now.

I really wanted one but given we're in a hard water area so extra maintenance for that, plus I'd already signed up for the maintenance costs of the all singing all dancing fancy toilet... and then the amount of cupboard space they take up was just the nail in the coffin for that particular dream.

Would have been ace as I can't lift a full kettle and tipping one is dangerous (and the safety tippy kettles look fugly as fuck and call me a snob but I don't actually want my kitchen looking like Widdlin's Home For Speshul People)... but it was not to be.

I take the hassle out of making brews by making DP make them!

At some point when current kettle dies I shall reward my common sense and frugality by buying a fancy as fuck shiny red go faster kettle in a fancy shape. But I am too mean to do this when current kettle is still alive and well, just scruffy.

Some less high-end flooring...

Didn't we do this week ago..?

We have a Qettle. Love it. 100 degrees. About half the price of a Quooker.

Yes, obviously way, way, way more expensive than an actual kettle but, as £500 on the total cost of a kitchen, felt like luxury and was recouped by getting so high-end flooring, I think.

I'm struggling to believe anyone is so bored they would post on a thread pretending to own something they don't. Maybe they just have different experiences/opinions to you

I got one half price and I love it, it was Howdens own brand

You could buy 20-30 kettles for the same price. If hot water's on tap surely that must use more electricity?

I’m sure some of the people commenting on this thread don’t actually have one! Ours is 3 years old, no maintenance, it never splutters, perfect for filling saucepans for pasta etc and takes up a corner of the under sink cupboard, no where near enough room to actually make a difference. I wouldn’t be without it!

We have a Franke. It’s fantastic and much cheaper than the big names.

I waited an hour for an early morning cup of tea staying with friends with a Quooker thing. And I couldn't get it to work even when I'd been introduced to it. So it's a no from me. That, and it's a huge waste of money.

We had one in our old house. I found it a bit pointless tbh. We re did the kitchen when we moved house but didn't even debate whether to bother getting one.

Im sure branded is better but this one goes to 98 or 99oc and is a neat little box, doesn't splutter or leak its brill! (And fits with my country cottage style)

We have a qettle and love it. I know you're looking at other brands but the principal is the same.
It feels like a luxury and DH descales it ever few months but we wouldn't go back to a kettle if we can possibly afford a boiling water tap again.

I never thought I'd be bothered by them but our house had one when we moved in. I love it now! I'm not sure what brand ours is but it doesn't take up much cupboard space at all, it's under the sink.

Mine is liquida. It heats to 98 degrees.