Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea. The "problems" seem to be around...
1. they store and keep hot a fair amount of water so the energy
efficiency of only heating the water you need seems to go out of the
window.
2. since they are continually heating the water, I have heard, this
makes the tea/ drinks taste funny.
3. they are relatively expensive and take up a lot of room below the
worksurface.

At the time, they seemed like a great idea but now I'm not so sure.

Does anyone have one of these things? What do you think?

As usual, all help appreciated.

thanks
Lee.

wrote:

At the time, they seemed like a great idea but now I'm not so sure.

You've basically listed all of the reasons not to have one in the home.
They also don't provide boiling water, merely 'very hot' water which is
pants for a decent cuppa. They're designed for offices, etc. where there
is a stream of people wanting drinks and it reduces the time wastage of
people standing round waiting for kettles to boil.

If you have a lot of hot drinks (and, even if you don't), consider a 3kW
kettle such as the Breville Lightning. I've got one of these and would
never go back to a 2kW standard job. I'm so used to it starting to make
heating noises within a few secs that I assume every other kettle I use
is broken as they are just sooooo slow by comparison.

--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

I can't comment on your points 2 & 3 - but when I checked out
Quooker's energy figures, the standby power level seemed low enough
that provided you have a few tea breaks a day (and/or use boiling
water for cooking) - that you would be ahead overall.

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:57:28 +0100, Scott M wrote:

wrote:

At the time, they seemed like a great idea but now I'm not so sure.

You've basically listed all of the reasons not to have one in the home.
They also don't provide boiling water, merely 'very hot' water which is
pants for a decent cuppa. They're designed for offices, etc. where there
is a stream of people wanting drinks and it reduces the time wastage of
people standing round waiting for kettles to boil.

Agreed. It's essential to get all of the air out of the water or the
tealeaves will just float. Tea made at even 1000m up is ****y.

If you have a lot of hot drinks (and, even if you don't), consider a 3kW
kettle such as the Breville Lightning. I've got one of these and would
never go back to a 2kW standard job. I'm so used to it starting to make
heating noises within a few secs that I assume every other kettle I use
is broken as they are just sooooo slow by comparison.

My Tescrot 3kW job for £10 works OK. Even on about 243V on load it's only
about 2.95kW, but so much unworse than 2 - 2.4kW.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

wrote:
Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea. The "problems" seem to be around...
1. they store and keep hot a fair amount of water so the energy
efficiency of only heating the water you need seems to go out of the
window.
2. since they are continually heating the water, I have heard, this
makes the tea/ drinks taste funny.
3. they are relatively expensive and take up a lot of room below the
worksurface.

What about one of these;
http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?...amp_id=froogle


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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wrote:
Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea. The "problems" seem to be around...
1. they store and keep hot a fair amount of water so the energy
efficiency of only heating the water you need seems to go out of the
window.
2. since they are continually heating the water, I have heard, this
makes the tea/ drinks taste funny.
3. they are relatively expensive and take up a lot of room below the
worksurface.

What about one of these;
http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?...amp_id=froogle


--
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And the old favourite if 2 phases are available

http://tinyurl.com/33ldlp

Adam

On 1 May, 08:18, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea. *The "problems" seem to be around....
1. they store and keep hot a fair amount of water so the energy
efficiency of only heating the water you need seems to go out of the
window.
2. since they are continually heating the water, I have heard, this
makes the tea/ drinks taste funny.
3. they are relatively expensive and take up a lot of room below the
worksurface.

What about one of these;http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?...amp_id=froogle

--
Dave - The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Tefal Quick Cup looked almost perfect (would have been nice if you
could plumb it in) but having a quick search on reviews, it seems like
it delivers water at around 85 degress which isn't very good for tea.
Does anyone have one?

The brevil seems good - how long does it take to boil a full kettle
and say a couple of mugs full?

thanks
Lee.

wrote in message
...
Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea. The "problems" seem to be around...
1. they store and keep hot a fair amount of water so the energy
efficiency of only heating the water you need seems to go out of the
window.

Yes - only useful for high usage areas

2. since they are continually heating the water, I have heard, this
makes the tea/ drinks taste funny.

They don't make tea as the water isn't boiling, they just irritate the tea
leaves (and the drinker) and the standing water tastes sh*t and you can
taste it. Fine for coffee as it doesn't/shouldn't use boiling water and
tastes stronger.

3. they are relatively expensive and take up a lot of room below the
worksurface.

They also scale up like you wouldn't believe.


--
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(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

wrote in message
...
On Fri, 1 May 2009 05:59:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On 1 May, 08:18, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I was thinking of buying one of those boiling water taps to replace my
kettle in the kitchen. But on further investigation, it seems that
maybe it is not such a good idea.

The Tefal Quick Cup looked almost perfect (would have been nice if you
could plumb it in) but having a quick search on reviews, it seems like
it delivers water at around 85 degress which isn't very good for tea.
Does anyone have one?

Yep ,It got used twice before being slung in the shed. Absolutely
useless for brewing Tea. Was going to put in the local jumble sale
held in the village hall but it would be unfair to inflict it on
anyone I might know.

G.Harman




Lee.


these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)

Is it instant coffee you mean, or do you use the hot tap for filter or
cafetiere brewing?

On Fri, 1 May 2009 23:41:14 UTC, S Viemeister
wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)

Is it instant coffee you mean, or do you use the hot tap for filter or
cafetiere brewing?

Sorry, I use it for instamt, but others (fussy people too!) use it for
cafetieres.
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 23:41:14 UTC, S Viemeister
wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp
We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)

Is it instant coffee you mean, or do you use the hot tap for filter or
cafetiere brewing?

Sorry, I use it for instamt, but others (fussy people too!) use it for
cafetieres.

My experience of these echoes the antis. Its a good water heater, but
boil it doesn't do.

And although not a tea drinker, it wasnt up to decent proper coffee
making. Instant was acceptable.

It may be that some models are better than others, but its a warning to
the OP to at least find out what the unit is specced to and be cautious.

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)


Maybe very hot drinks are not such a good idea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7967823.stm

--
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Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org

On Sat, 2 May 2009 08:03:07 UTC, Rod wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp

We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)


Maybe very hot drinks are not such a good idea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7967823.stm

Yes, I saw that one. But...(a) I drink coffee [although I've cut down
from the 11 pints a day I used to drink] and (b) I like it hot because
by the time I've got it back to my office it's already cooled down a
bit...!

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 2009 08:03:07 UTC, Rod wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 22:02:39 UTC, "John"
wrote:

these seem good at my place of work - but over sink.,

http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/index.asp
We have one of the HydroTaps at work. It's not over-sing - it has a mesh
drain let into the worktop, with a pipe to a nearby drain.

Delivers hot and chilled water - I can't vouch for making tea as I don't
dribk the stuff, but I like really hot coffee and it's fine for that
(once I've purged the pipe from the heater...)

Maybe very hot drinks are not such a good idea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7967823.stm

Yes, I saw that one. But...(a) I drink coffee [although I've cut down
from the 11 pints a day I used to drink] and (b) I like it hot because
by the time I've got it back to my office it's already cooled down a
bit...!

I was unsure when I read the article whether it actually applied to any
hot drink - sort of assumed it would.

And, yes, the walk back bit is an excellent reason for serving very hot.
(So long and elfin saftey doesn't stop you... :-) )

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org