Boiling Water Tap - thoughts?

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Thinking of getting a boiling water tap in my kitchen. Has anyone got one? What do you think, are they any good / worthwhile? Where's best to buy?

Wouldn’t want too easy for accident especially if kids around and also in a recent power cut my neighbours got stuck on - running a lot because she was asleep and the sink got a bit warped from the heat

I just ran it through ChatGPT based on my scenario. Upfront costs £30 for a kettle. £500 upwards for a tap. £16.50/year to boil the kettle for tea, and using the induction hob for pasta/veg etc. £105 to run the tap. I’d stick with a kettle but maybe buy a prettier one to match the kitchen.

i have one because it was in the house when I bought it. I LOVE IT. I thought it would be a bit of a gimmick but it’s brilliant. We drink a hell of a lot of tea in this house though.

I liked the one friends had. It has a safety mechanism so kids can’t use it accidentally. Don’t understand how it could get stuck on tbh. Making one cup of tea is very easy and you don’t boil full kettles and then
not use them. Handy for cooking etc eg pasta or rice.
I wouldn’t pay to get one on its own but would get one with a new kitchen.

Friends that have one love it. I can't stand them. Personal preference

I love mine. I’m sure I managed without one but I’m not quite sure how. Bit like my microwave tbh.

We have got a Quooker tap and I love it. Instant hot/chilled or sparkling water.
To be honest I probably wouldn’t bother with the sparkling again if I was to get a new one as the sparkling isn’t quite as bottled sparkling water - more sort of fizzy if that makes sense.
The filtered chilled and boiling are great though and we definitely drink more chilled water than we did.
Its fine with older children but possibly not with younger ones - my grandchildren 10 + are fine.

If there was a power cut how did the tap water get boiling? It needs electricity to heat the water. How does a tap turn itself on whilst someone is in bed?

Absolutely love mine! Only had it about a month. Got it from Boha

She thought must have tripped a sensor

but they are storing hot wayer

Ous doesn't store so much hot water that it could pour out loads in a power cut.

Ours is hot water, chilled and sparking. The chilled could do with being a bit colder. Love the sparkling. Boiling is a tad spitty and our induction hob boils water really fast. I would probably get one again, but might shop around a bit more than just getting a quooker.

Quooker here too and we absolutely love it. Ours is also the boiling/chilled/sparkling one and if we moved house to one that didn't have it, I'd buy it as a priority.

We have one at work. It doesn't quite run hot enough to make a decent cup of tea.
Most of us tea drinkers have gone back to a kettle.

We have a quooker. Absolutely wouldn’t be without it. It would be the first thing I would choose in a new kitchen.

Had a quooker in our old house. Really do miss it in our new house. When we get the kitchen done ill be getting a quooker.
My parents have a different make, none of us like it for a cup of tea as it doesn't get hot enough.

I really want one!

Definitely get one and get the quooker not the Franke. You need to be aware that they only do so much at one point so you might need to boil a large amount of water for example for pasta on the stove, but if your stove is like ours it will have a power boost

We only have the boiling one because we have cold water in our fridge thing

Can’t stand them.
So dangerous.

Rubbish for tea. Just my opinion, I usually drink coffee, but am a bit snobby with my tea. I have never had a good cup of tea with one. I can’t really think why else you’d need it unless you need tea in a flash. Our kettle is very quick.

Ours is Fohen and I absolutely love it.

We treated ourselves to a Quooker during a kitchen refit 5 years ago. From a financial pov it's a nonsense, a total extravagance. There's the initial outlay of four figures and then due to our hard water we need to service it every 2½ years, I think that's £20-25 for parts plus my 2 hrs labour (so the equivalent of a new kettle every 2 years!).

But we're looking at moving and have agreed we'll be buying another as soon as we move in. It's so convenient for tea, especially if you work from home and have back to back meetings! It makes cooking easier - timings are very straightforward if you're not waiting for a kettle to boil. Or if you've forgotten to put the carrots on you can usually get away with putting them on late. Also it's been great in this heat because you're not warming up the kitchen with a kettle during its boil and cool down.

There is a specific way to turn it on but I'd still be wary of kids - I don't know, am I being too cautious? Also you will catch yourself at some point because you get too casual with it - you do have to be present and not thinking about everything else you need to do!

Our friends had a different tap and it didn't get to boiling, they were very disappointed and needed to keep a kettle which made it irrelevant. They didn't buy a new one when they moved!

I will always choose a kettle over a boiling water tap. I rather like the mini break (from whatever else Im doing) of waiting for the water to boil. Plus I wouldnt want to loose any storage space (am assuming a kettle is smaller?)

I looked at these half-heartedly. Not for me - just my personal preference.

My friend has one - tea and coffee doesn't taste the same 🤷 so she ends up getting the kettle out of the cupboard 🙄

Adore mine. Would never be without one again. You need a proper boiling one, not some cheap thing that just produces very hot water. Tea tastes lovely.

If kids were constantly burning themselves on them we’d know by now - they have been around for years. IMHO kettles are more likely to be spilled.