Boiling water tap - who is right?

[Northernlurker]

Dh wants one in new kitchen. Because it's cool I think.

I think it's expensive bollocks that we don't need and would potentially be dangerous for future grandchildren.

Who's right?

[sconeorscown]

I loved mine, but when we were moving house the surveyor wrote in the report that we must have damp as we had a de humidifier under the sink. It was infact the boiler for the tap. He nearly lost us the sale.

[gamerchick]

They're not simple to use imo. Many a time I watch people trying to use the one at work.

I wouldn't have one.

[Justcannotbearsed]

Our kitchen was £23k ish…so a rain chunk was the tap.

[poolblue]

I love our Quooker. I was very sceptical at first, mainly due to cost, but our kitchen supplier said he'd throw it in for free if we accepted his quote. Really woudn't be without it now and its my favourite bit of kitchen kit.

[Northernlurker]

Wow loads of views!

Ok I am convinced it's not dangerous but I still think it's expensive bollocks. Hoping to spend around fifteen grand so it's quite a big chunk

[AuntyFungal]

@5zeds

Quooker is the only hot tap which water comes out of the tap at 100. It stores in the tank above 100. water above a hundred…wow.

www.quooker.co.uk/how-a-quooker-works

@5zeds

Designed by a Dutch physicist who spent his life tinkering with it. & probably left his tinkerings littering the kitchen table!

[Caspianberg]

@Cabinetministers - we have this caso-design.de/en/p/hw660-turbo/. They do a 4l also

Just fill the water from tap. We don’t have hard water here so not sure about that.

I couldn’t justify 10% more of entire new kitchen on a tap.

[Coffeeonmytoffee]

It’s expensive and unless you’re constantly using it then what’s the point.

[Cabinetministers]

@caspianberg - how does it work with the hot water dispenser in breakfast cupboard. We have had the breville hotcup for many years but always need to replace every year or two despite filtering our hard water before adding it. Is it a faff to refill it when it is under a shelf in the breakfast cupboard and are you just refilling with tap water. Our shelf will be fixed 450mm above work top in breakfast cupboard. Thanks

Has anyone else done this route instead of quooker?

[KatieLatie]

We have one (Quooker, installed June in a new kitchen).

I love:

• instant boiling water.
  
• no kettle.
  

Not so keen on:

• unless I am doing someone wrong, it can splutter: need to be careful how you hold things.
  
• filling a pan with boiling water is quite heavy work: I am holding it with one hand and a hand free to operate the tap. Have a feeling that my MIL (70s) will not be impressed!
  

Safety: DS (11) doesn’t go near the kitchen tap at the moment, so no problems. Wouldn’t leave younger children unsupervised in a kitchen.

Cost: they are expensive! We had a scale plus filter too. If you have a great budget, then have one. If you have to sacrifice something else to have one, I wouldn’t. You see some people with £10k for a kitchen, spending £1k+ on a Quooker: think the money can be spent better elsewhere.

[PlumManor]

I’ve had one for ten years and I wouldn’t be without it. I admit it isn’t just quite as hot as a boiled kettle although perfectly adequate for hot drinks but it’s invaluable for filling pans for cooking. And buckets of water for cleaning.

[Sleepinghyena]

DH is right. They are awesome!! Had mine 3 years now and is is without doubt the best present I've ever bought myself. I wouldn't want to be without one now.

[justswaying]

Moral of the story is... if you're going to get one don't scrimp - get a quooker!

[TheBitterBoy]

I thought like you, until in laws got one and we spent a few days living in their house while they were away. Now I want one. I'd get rid of my kettle in a heartbeat. Absolutely not dangerous for children, I can't see how you would be able to accidentally run the boiling tap, you have to do a very intentional movement to turn it on. This was a Quooker.

[mrsbyers]

We got one fitted in our new build , I was a bit sceptical but would fit one straight away if we moved - I LOVE it

[MilkTooth]

@steppemum

I think the taste thing is interesting.

I can tell if you put fresh water in the kettle, or reboiled it.
I always only boil the right amount, and always empty the dregs and put fresh water in before I boil it.

I can also taste if the water is no longer boiling, so the kettle boiled 5 minutes ago.

Also if someone puts the milk in before the teabag has finished brewing.

I can taste all these. I'm really not bothered at someone esle's house, but I home I want freshly boiled water at 100 degrees.

So, I really do think that the water from a hot tap tastes different.

And if it is boiled and stored under pressure , then it does not have oxygen bubbles in it, which is what brews the tea.

So, handy maybe, but to make tea - no.

(and come to that, coffee is better with water NOT boiling, so it wouldn't make good coffee either would it?)

Absolutely to this. It tastes subtly but detectably different, and I've also had tea made from lots of different brands of tap, so I don't think it's type-specific.

[Heyvedge]

I see that @steppemum has already explained the tea taste thing much better than me.

[Heyvedge]

Do they store the water because that is probably why tea tastes funny, you should always use freshly drawn water for tea because it is oxygen rich, likewise you should never reboil the kettle if you use these

[Soontobe60]

I’d be telling my DH that if he wants the tap, you want a (insert expensive kitchen gadget).
My DH wanted an expensive combi microwave when we had our kitchen fitted. I wanted an induction hob. We both got what we wanted. He’s never used the microwave to do anything other than heat up beans or frozen sweet corn. He loves the hob though!

[SpeckledlyHen]

I had a quooker at my last house (just moved sadly). It was brilliant and I would forgo so many other appliances if I had to in order to have one again. Tea did not taste funny and I drink gallons of it. Also, as others have said, regards the safety, most of my adult visitors couldn't turn it on without me showing them, so it is child friendly. It operated a bit like a medicine bottle, you have to push down and turn.

I am renting at the moment and have a much smaller kitchen and the kettle is just another lump of metal taking up valuable worktop space.

[steppemum]

I think the taste thing is interesting.

I can tell if you put fresh water in the kettle, or reboiled it.
I always only boil the right amount, and always empty the dregs and put fresh water in before I boil it.

I can also taste if the water is no longer boiling, so the kettle boiled 5 minutes ago.

Also if someone puts the milk in before the teabag has finished brewing.

I can taste all these. I'm really not bothered at someone esle's house, but I home I want freshly boiled water at 100 degrees.

So, I really do think that the water from a hot tap tastes different.

And if it is boiled and stored under pressure , then it does not have oxygen bubbles in it, which is what brews the tea.

So, handy maybe, but to make tea - no.

(and come to that, coffee is better with water NOT boiling, so it wouldn't make good coffee either would it?)

[moreshitandnofuckingredemption]

@BigWoollyJumpers - don't come round ours then, no coffee drinkers here so it's Nescafe all the way
(or I could just make all the machine noises like that ad from the 80s

[haggisaggis]

Like ours. Cupboard has room for the Quooker tank as well as a basket for recycling and the food waste bin so no space lost as far as I am concerned.
Sputters a bit but the child lock thing works fine.

[DirtyDancing]

If you are talking about a Quooker hot water tap it's the single most amazing thing in our kitchen we had put in when we renovated. And it's certainly not dangerous! And that is coming from someone who worries about everything when it comes to my kids!! Speedy hot water for washing up, boiling veg, tea.

He is right and you are very wrong on this one.

[BigWoollyJumpers]

As for making coffee - surely if you have a Quooker, you should also have a "proper" espresso latte coffee maker...... I would be shocked and appalled to be given an "instant" coffee in a kitchen with a £1k Quooker .