Quooker Cube - instant chilled sparkling water

[JQ]

Does anyone have one? Do you like it? Is the water cold enough? Is it sparkling enough? Expensive to run? Any negatives?

We're about to put in a new kitchen and plan to install a boiling water tap. I currently drink at least 2 litres of chilled sparkling water per day. Started out buying bottles but switched to Sodastream when I realised how much plastic I was using. But it's a pain in the ass with a constant merry-go-round of bottles being re-filled and chilled.

As such I'm seriously contemplating a Cube, but at an additional cost of around £1,000 on top of the base Quooker, I'm having a serious wobble and am interested in knowing if others are happy with theirs

[46and2]

Comes in a bottle. Put bottle in fridge. Recycle plastic/glass bottle.

Edited by 46and2 on Wednesday 19th June 13:26

[mattybrown]

JQ said:

Does anyone have one? Do you like it? Is the water cold enough? Is it sparkling enough? Expensive to run? Any negatives?

We're about to put in a new kitchen and plan to install a boiling water tap. I currently drink at least 2 litres of chilled sparkling water per day. Started out buying bottles but switched to Sodastream when I realised how much plastic I was using. But it's a pain in the ass with a constant merry-go-round of bottles being re-filled and chilled.

As such I'm seriously contemplating a Cube, but at an additional cost of around £1,000 on top of the base Quooker, I'm having a serious wobble and am interested in knowing if others are happy with theirs

Yes I have one. We originally bought the first version and I had to replace the valve for the cylinders about 5 times in the end Quooker replaced the whole unit for free with the new model.

Our house was heavy use bottled sparkling water before, I think we are even heavier use now it comes from the tap. It's taken for granted.
The cylinders aren't cheap at £70 for 4 inc shipping. We are a family of 4 and I reckon we replace them every three months. You can buy an adaptor to refill your bottles and then you need to be able to buy a large CO2 pub style bottle to make it much cheaper (on my list to do).

The fizz levels are pleasant not to fizzy water is always cold and filtered. (Filter lasts about a year and another £70).

The convenience is a very nice to have.

Would I buy one again, absolutely. Although I consider it as a real luxury.

[JQ]

mattybrown said:

JQ said:

Does anyone have one? Do you like it? Is the water cold enough? Is it sparkling enough? Expensive to run? Any negatives?

We're about to put in a new kitchen and plan to install a boiling water tap. I currently drink at least 2 litres of chilled sparkling water per day. Started out buying bottles but switched to Sodastream when I realised how much plastic I was using. But it's a pain in the ass with a constant merry-go-round of bottles being re-filled and chilled.

As such I'm seriously contemplating a Cube, but at an additional cost of around £1,000 on top of the base Quooker, I'm having a serious wobble and am interested in knowing if others are happy with theirs

Yes I have one. We originally bought the first version and I had to replace the valve for the cylinders about 5 times in the end Quooker replaced the whole unit for free with the new model.

Our house was heavy use bottled sparkling water before, I think we are even heavier use now it comes from the tap. It's taken for granted.
The cylinders aren't cheap at £70 for 4 inc shipping. We are a family of 4 and I reckon we replace them every three months. You can buy an adaptor to refill your bottles and then you need to be able to buy a large CO2 pub style bottle to make it much cheaper (on my list to do).

The fizz levels are pleasant not to fizzy water is always cold and filtered. (Filter lasts about a year and another £70).

The convenience is a very nice to have.

Would I buy one again, absolutely. Although I consider it as a real luxury.

Cheers, sounds promising. I do have access to unlimited free pub gas, so that would make some savings in the future. The level of fizziness could be an issue though, as I do like it very very fizzy. I take it there's no way of increasing the fizz? I may have to pop into a showroom and test it.

[mattybrown]

JQ said:

Cheers, sounds promising. I do have access to unlimited free pub gas, so that would make some savings in the future. The level of fizziness could be an issue though, as I do like it very very fizzy. I take it there's no way of increasing the fizz? I may have to pop into a showroom and test it.

I haven't found a way to change the amount of CO2 and the Quooker website confirms you can't.

[jimothyc]

Maybe save the extra £1000 and get a SodaStream. You can make it as fizzy as you like then.

[JQ]

mattybrown said:

JQ said:

Cheers, sounds promising. I do have access to unlimited free pub gas, so that would make some savings in the future. The level of fizziness could be an issue though, as I do like it very very fizzy. I take it there's no way of increasing the fizz? I may have to pop into a showroom and test it.

I haven't found a way to change the amount of CO2 and the Quooker website confirms you can't.

Cheers. I've found a few other comments on the web from people saying it's not as fizzy as Sodastream / bottles, so will definitely go and check it out.

[random_username]

mattybrown said:

I haven't found a way to change the amount of CO2 and the Quooker website confirms you can't.

There's an option to "Set effervescence level" in the manual - https://www.quooker.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/Installati... - page 31
100% is close to the level of fizziness that you would get from bottled sparkling water from a supermarket.

We bought the quooker + cube four or so months ago. It is very much a 'luxury', but I would buy another one if we moved. The boiling water is great, the chilled filtered water tastes much nicer than the water straight from the tap, and the sparkling water is good because we used to get through a whole load of plastic bottles of the stuff. The first CO2 cannister lasted approx 3 months. There are places on the web that will sell you a kit to refill the bottles yourself, or run the entire system from a pub sized bottle of CO2.

[Byker28i]

Sorry, weird question about th ehot. Whats the running cost of the hot water. Does it keep a tank of hot water on the go all the time, or boil on demand, similar to the single cup kettles?

[WrekinCrew]

We have one. Thought it would be a waste of money but would really miss it now; so convenient and the 2l/3l supermarket bottles seem to go flat very quickly.

A box of 4 Co2 cylinders easily lasts us a year or so. I suspect we could use the filters for more than a year too, but so far have changed them when the alarm pings.

And a thumbs-up for Quooker service. Ours is now four years old so well out of warranty. A few weeks ago it wasn't producing very fizzy water so I contacted their support online for advice. They sent me a new valve free of charge and a complimentary CO2 cylinder. Easy swap and now working good as new.

[ecs]

I've got one - either the tap or the Cube was free in a deal from our kitchen fitters, can't remember, but if I were doing another kitchen I wouldn't be without either. The gas is a bit pricy for sparkling water and their exchange system is a bit annoying (I have a load of empties which I'm meant to post to them), but the cold water comes out at the right temperature and the fizziness of the water is pleasant.

[gtidriver]

Ive got a Cube, it was free from Quooker after our just hot water tap st its self and flooded our kitchen. Their customer service was excellent once things got going and I got an upgraded kitchen which I did add money too. Any way the Cube is excellent but I wouldn't buy it with my own money. Buy a wine chiller and load it up with sparkling and normal bottled water and save the money, I had my canister changed a few weeks ago as we had a fault with our last cube not working and the gassy water isn't as good as it was and I only drink maybe 1 pint a day. Now the Quooker hot water tap will always be in our kitchen, the best kitchen accessory in my opinion..

[beauhugg]

Best thing we ever did in the kitchen, ours is the Quooker plus so it produces the hot water as well. Bought it from Quooker talking to their agent in Ireland, the whole lot with the cube was cheaper that the Howdens price just for the boiler and tap

[The Gauge]

I plan to buy the Quooker tap and Cube as whilst I don't drink sparkling water I do want the chilled water facility, so I anticipate I wont use the gas cylinders at all. It makes it expensive for the chilled water, but whilst Im buying the hot tap I may as well go full hog and get the Cube too.

[CharlesElliott]

We started off with a Quooker alone, but now have a Cube as well. From a family perspective, it was mainly for the chilled water, but I like the carbonated water on tap.