Quooker/boiling water taps

[TheRhythmlessMan]

How noisy are they? Like an urn? Can they be put on timer for when not needed eg. Overnight?

Does tea taste rank because of the oxygen being boiled out of the water so many times? From what I hear, the Quookers are good for delivering actual boiled, not just hot water.

Costs: how often does filter need changing (or anything else) and how costly is it? (Is it a diy job each time or do you have to pay to get someone in)?

How does the child lock setting work?

Tia

I have a Quooker

It’s not noisy when you’re not using it, at all

When you’re using it, it is noisy. About as noisy as a just boiled kettle ie hissing noise of bubbling water and steam. But unlike a kettle you don’t have noise at all until you turn the tap on.

There isn’t any timer function. I suppose you could get an electrician to wire in a timer.

If you have the optional limescale filter you need to change the filter every 6 months. I can’t remember the cost of a new filter but it’s not cheap. DIY to fit it. If you don’t have it then there is nothing to change. (With hindsight I wouldn’t have bothered with the limescale filter). I believe you’re supposed to get the whole thing serviced every year or so but haven’t yet.

Child lock - you have to push the ring down twice quickly and then twist it to get boiling water. It’s fairly easy for an adult once you have the knack but would be difficult for a child - or anyone else who doesn’t know the trick.

Tea tastes totally normal to me, in fact better as it used to come with flakes of limescale from our old kettle!

Hope that helps. Yes Quooker does produce boiling water, I believe there are one or two other makes that also do but many are just “hot”.

I love our Quooker tap! No kettle taking up precious countertop space, and the boiling water is instant. minipie has answered everything. Tea tastes fine, I don't notice a difference.

Quooker is amazing. Must have item in kitchen after dishwasher. 😁

Yup, we love our quooker. There's no point in having it on a timer, it just keeps the water hot, otherwise you'd be having to heat it from scratch. We have to change our filter more often than they said because they estimate 3 litres a day & we use much more than that. It is not a cheap or money saving exercise, but we love it.

Definitely go for an actual boiling tap and not one of the ‘98 degrees’ ones - they are shite.

We are thrilled with ours. It’s so useful making tea & coffee, boiling water for vegetables and hot water bottles (though with hot water bottles I hold the bottle under the tap with barbecue tongs).
I’d highly recommend

We love ours. In a soft water area you don't need a filter, it makes a great cuppa and it's so useful for cooking or when you need hit water for cleaning.
It doesn't make a noise other than the sound when you're using it.
It's this one, not a Quooker:
www.hyco.co.uk/products/boiling-water/zen

I love mine. Silent unless you are actually getting boiling water out. It is boiling too - I'm very particular about super hot tea.

We love our Quooker, would never go back. We had ours serviced and the filter changed for the first time recently after 6 years The engineer showed me how much scale he got out of it and I was a bit It had been working fine before, but it's like new again now. It was £150 for the service and filter change so not cheap, and he recommended we have it done a bit sooner next time - so there are maintenance costs but well worth it for us.

Oh wow thank you everyone for such useful and interesting info.

Great to hear it's not like an urn that makes the whole room thunder every 5 minutes.

Can you control the flow speed when dispensing the hot water (eg for a hot water bottle opening)? I'm assuming yes otherwise if it comes out too fast it could potentially splash all over the place when filling a small tea cup for example.

I also wonder if the boiled water can harm a sink surface (we have a ceramic Belfast sink) and wood tops (haven't ordered worktops yet... perhaps sink area should be more hardwearing than wood anyway).

It's so great to hear your feedback.

You can’t control the flow speed no, not for boiling water. You do have to be quite careful when filling eg an espresso cup so it doesn’t flow up over the sides. Anything bigger than that, like a normal mug size, is no problem though - the key is to hold it close to the tap mouth so the water isn’t falling from a height which would make it splash. Or just put the cup in the sink under the tap and stand back, so any splashes fall in the sink.

I don’t see why boiling water would cause more harm to a surface than any other water. However there is a fair bit of steam produced so I suppose that means more moisture to settle on surfaces. I would never put wood around a sink anyway!