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Talk me out of having a Quooker

89 replies

WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 12/03/2019 11:06

New kitchen plans underway.
I'd love a QUOOKER but they are not cheap!

Please convince me that I'd don't really need one.

If it makes any difference, we are only a 2 person household but we do drink a lot of tea!

OP posts:
lozengeoflove · 12/03/2019 11:08

Meh, if you can afford it, get it.
Will it make your life easier? Will you regret not having it once the kitchen is done?

frazzledasarock · 12/03/2019 11:08

When we re-do our kitchen I’m getting one.

Sorry not helping

crumpet · 12/03/2019 11:09

Love mine, which has been going for about 5 years. Kept the kettle in a cupboard for about a year but ditched it eventually.

HollowTalk · 12/03/2019 11:10

I've just read the standby cost is only 3p per day.

Are you out all day, though?

QuantumWeatherButterfly · 12/03/2019 11:10

Can't help - sorry! Ours is sitting in the box in the garage and will be going in when the kitchen refit starts later this month. I am ridiculously excited about it!

PetraDelphiki · 12/03/2019 11:10

Sorry can’t help you - wouldn’t be without mine! Can’t wuite justify the cost to replace with shiny new 4 way one though...

sleepwhenidie · 12/03/2019 11:11

We had one and I LOVED it. It was great not just for tea but poached eggs for breakfast in a flash, cooking veg etc. It broke after about 4 years and it’s not worth repairing, just as well replace, which isn’t going to happen ☹️. Even about 2 years on I still miss it a lot and resent the ugly kettle on my worktop (utter first world problem I know!) - I’d say get one!

sleepwhenidie · 12/03/2019 11:13

I think we’ve all misread your OP 😂😂

onalongsabbatical · 12/03/2019 11:14

Visited a posh house recently, they have a new kitchen, no Quooker but I fell in love with their state of the art kettle - bleeps when it's ready, choice of temps, digital display and an option to keep the water hot. I loved it! Cheaper alternative? This sort of thing (others available, some cheaper!) www.amazon.co.uk/d/Electric-Kettles/Bosch-TWK8631GB-Kettle-Styline-Finish/B00BG66EW0/ref=sr_1_24?s=kitchen-appliances&keywords=kettles+electric&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1552389202&sr=1-24&refinements=p_n_feature_sixteen_browse-bin%3A3539095031

Beerincomechampagnetastes · 12/03/2019 11:19

I love mine - but it xx

Beerincomechampagnetastes · 12/03/2019 11:19

*buy

YogaDrone · 12/03/2019 11:19

I can't do this, sorry. We had one at our old house and I miss it badly now that we've moved. If you can afford one then get one.

We're now looking at getting a "Quooker Flex" which is a combined kitchen tap/boiling water tap so that we can fit it in the existing granite of the new kitchen. Can't afford new worktops as well as a new Quooker!

Mustbetimeforachange · 12/03/2019 11:21

My Quooker is my favourite thing! Costs us a fortune as the filter needs changing much more frequently than they said, presumably we use more than 3 litres a day.It's our luxury, but it really is a luxury.

Springiscomingsoon · 12/03/2019 11:21

Aren't people forever have to buy and replace new filters for these?

OKBobble · 12/03/2019 11:22

My friend is forever having to have hers fixed. It costs more than a kettle does each time.

pamplemoussed · 12/03/2019 11:23

Had mine for 6 years, can’t imagine going back now. It’s just the way we do things - tea, cooking, cleaning ..

Mustbetimeforachange · 12/03/2019 11:23

Haha, Springiscomingsoon, see above. £90/year on filters.

YogaDrone · 12/03/2019 11:24

onalongsabbatical - we consoled ourselves with an AEG kettle like this when we moved. It's rubbish and only lasted about 6 months before it started going wrong. Perhaps the Bosch one is better but I wasn't going to spend a fortune on a new kettle so we now have a £20 kettle until we can afford to have the Quooker Flex fitted!

Vargas · 12/03/2019 11:24

A friend has one and loves it but she did get pissed one evening and tried to wash her hands with it, burnt her hand (not badly luckily). Is that enough reason not to get one?? Grin

EmmaJR1 · 12/03/2019 11:25

I'm getting one when we redo our kitchen! I saw it at the ideal home show and it was the one amazing thing I could afford 😂

EdtheBear · 12/03/2019 11:27

We have one at work. Takes up a cupboard for its gubbings. Breaks regularly ok it's getting much more use than a domestic one would.

I worry about the temperature of the water in a domestic setting ie boiling water on tap with young kids seems a bad mix.

ALadyofLetters · 12/03/2019 11:33

We’ve got one a work and it is rubbish. It takes up a whole cupboard, it breaks down all the time and we still have a kettle as the tea drinkers moan the water isn’t properly boiling. I wouldn’t bother!

itsabongthing · 12/03/2019 11:34

My tea-loving friend put one in her beautiful new kitchen but now she goes into the utility room to use her own kettle for tea because she says it doesn’t taste quite the same, she thinks this is because it’s slightly less than 100 degrees!

itsabongthing · 12/03/2019 11:35

*old kettle

AveEldon · 12/03/2019 11:36

It's not hot enough for tea imho - I've been to various friends with quookers or similar and the tea is always meh