Quooker hot tap?
Discussion
I house sit in a few properties that have them. I personally don't like them and prefer to use a kettle, after I struggled to turn one off and it is easy to scald yourself on them. I do use them though, and are OK as boiling water for tea ( I can't tell the difference between freshly boiled from a kettle and the boiling water tap), How many cups of tea do you drink in a day? I have cup of tea first thing in the morning and that's usually my use of boiling water for the day.
We got one as a luxury item in our kitchen....10 years ago now: we still love it!
Morning tea is made immediately (well, still time to steep the tea)....for purist coffee lovers, because it is boiling it may be too hot, but if I am having an instant, I put some water in, swill the granules, add some milk them top the mug up. Great for pasta & more.
Hard to justify on price - heck, you could buy a lot of kettles - & I guess some folk may be scared, but we have never had a scalding incident.
Obviously need to train guests if they want to use it!
Morning tea is made immediately (well, still time to steep the tea)....for purist coffee lovers, because it is boiling it may be too hot, but if I am having an instant, I put some water in, swill the granules, add some milk them top the mug up. Great for pasta & more.
Hard to justify on price - heck, you could buy a lot of kettles - & I guess some folk may be scared, but we have never had a scalding incident.
Obviously need to train guests if they want to use it!
I use Zip on high end installs, nicely made bits of kit. We use ours a lot although I do think Quooker get the hottest out of all of them.
Personally I prefer boiling taps as stand alone taps, for instance I've fitted ours next to the hob (with a drip tray underneath) for ease of cooking-fresh pasta now literally takes a couple of minutes.
Personally I prefer boiling taps as stand alone taps, for instance I've fitted ours next to the hob (with a drip tray underneath) for ease of cooking-fresh pasta now literally takes a couple of minutes.
Do you have a Combi boiler or a system boiler with a non vented (I think) cylinder, we were going to have a Franke one but it needed over 1.5 bar and we just have a normal cylinder and system boiler so have had to spec a normal tap until we have changes to the boiler and or cylinder.
Not sure if you can get these for low pressure systems, had a quick look but couldnt see anything.
Not sure if you can get these for low pressure systems, had a quick look but couldnt see anything.
I had a Quooker installed with a new kitchen about three years ago. It is the most used appliance in the house, and couldn't recommend highly enough. Get the scale control filter too. We've changed that once, and the thing has worked faultlessly. Safe double tap collar to get the hot water out, so the kids can't accidentally get boiling water out. Acts as a normal mixer tap with hot/cold too.
DDg said:
Not sure if that one is hot enough for tea, coffee etc. Appears more like something to stop your combi boiler firing up, or as a back up to when your boiler doesn't work.
Yeah, that's a fair point. Just noticed them on the Screwfix site yesterday Edited by DDg on Monday 22 January 18:42
LeadFarmer said:
Personally I would sooner have a chilled water tap. Im not sure you can get taps that do chilled and boiling.
I believe that you can get a tap that will do both, anyone considering one will need to allow room underneath for all the gubbins. We use our Quooker all the time, so handy and despite what some say, safe to use. The water is airated so you can put your hand under it (fleetingly) without scalding yourself and the locking system is effective. Lot of money but they're good bits of kit.Blue62 said:
LeadFarmer said:
Personally I would sooner have a chilled water tap. Im not sure you can get taps that do chilled and boiling.
I believe that you can get a tap that will do both, anyone considering one will need to allow room underneath for all the gubbins. We use our Quooker all the time, so handy and despite what some say, safe to use. The water is airated so you can put your hand under it (fleetingly) without scalding yourself and the locking system is effective. Lot of money but they're good bits of kit.One of the best bits of kitchen kit you can waste money on - ours has been in nearly ten years and it's been faultless. Very useful, saves a huge amount of time.
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