ZedLeg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:44 am
Wasn't being completely serious
Nor was I - I just hate them because I know I'll put my hand under it one day.
we stick loads of them into peoples offices - you'd have to try pretty hard to stick your hand under them, they require 2 presses/twists/etc to activate so you don't confuse them with normal taps.
I'd love one at home, but the cheap ones are shit and the expensive ones are VERY expensive.
I like mine and use it more often than I would a kettle. Using boiling water is great for soaking dirty pans etc.
It would be interesting to stick it on an energy consumption plug and see how much it’s actually using though. I reckon it’s a disaster.
Mito Man wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 12:37 pm
I like mine and use it more often than I would a kettle. Using boiling water is great for soaking dirty pans etc.
It would be interesting to stick it on an energy consumption plug and see how much it’s actually using though. I reckon it’s a disaster.
I'm fairly sure they are a monumental distaster
We're thinking of getting an induction kettle for our hob. Would save cluttering up the worktop with one. It still astounds me how quickly you can bring a massive pan of stone cold water to the boil on full power
Swervin_Mervin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:38 pm
We're thinking of getting an induction kettle for our hob. Would save cluttering up the worktop with one. It still astounds me how quickly you can bring a massive pan of stone cold water to the boil on full power
I was very suspicious of induction jobs, but I am a total convert. So much faster than gas.
Yep - same. Even used one a few times at my parents and still wasn't convinced. But weirdly, by end of day 1 of having one ourselves we were both converted.
ZedLeg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:09 am
Really what you should be doing if you're suitably upwardly mobile is getting a boiling water tap.
You know how bad they are for the environment, right?
Compared to my wife boiling a full, fresh kettle several times a day?
I don’t mind them in concept but feel like I’d need to keep a jug out for making coffee, doing hot water bottles and the like and that would use as much space as a kettle.
ZedLeg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:09 am
Really what you should be doing if you're suitably upwardly mobile is getting a boiling water tap.
You know how bad they are for the environment, right?
in all seriousness, are they? It obviously depends on useage - I expect if you do one cup a day they're terrible, but 50 in an office and they're great.
ZedLeg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:09 am
Really what you should be doing if you're suitably upwardly mobile is getting a boiling water tap.
You know how bad they are for the environment, right?
in all seriousness, are they? It obviously depends on useage - I expect if you do one cup a day they're terrible, but 50 in an office and they're great.
Actually I'm not sure. I think they would be less efficient in my use (I only boil the kettle on the days I'm working from home and don't overfill it) but apparently they're not as bad as I thought they would be. Still keeping a few litres reservoir of water at near boiling temperature constantly, but then I keep my hot water cylinder with 250l at ~70C and I'm sure reducing the temperature of that by 1C would probably mitigate any energy wasted by a Quooker.
