The “review” wasn’t that helpful But I found this man entertaining to listen to so a big thumbs up from me 👍🏽

I don’t know anyone who fills the kettle to be the brim for one mug of tea. That is why kettles have water gauges. Maybe you’re getting some kickbacks from the company, I don’t care either way, but be realistic…

Bang on! In terms of saving money, better off with a 20 quid kettle. However the convenience of instant boiling water, especially if you like to cook, is immeasurable. Not sure I would have Quooker again though; filters are internal and awkward to change. Also, their customer service when the little LED wire breaks is ...PANTS!

I don't over-fill my kettle; I just filled with 1.5 mugs of cold tap water and it took 69 sec to boil. That is just a little longer than it took to assemble the other ingredients for my cup of tea.

It's not just 1200£, it's 1200£ plus the electricity for keeping the damn thing hot all the time. Also, put one cup of water in the kettle and it will boil in under a minute.

I'm confident that the laws of physics will apply to Quooker as much to any other part of our housholds. Thus it should be possible to calculate with some precision, the exact cost of heating and holding water at any given temparature. I'll take a wild guess that once you've added all the costs of the kit, its maintenance (hard water is highly destructive of elements and associated hardware) running and replacement, you'll find the occasional ad-hoc heating of water to drink and cook is waaaay cheaper... I'll add too an objective element - that I positively *enjoy* those brief minutes, stood by the stove while the kettle boils, when I meditate gently on the ups & downs of the day. My advice? Spend the money on a nice piano.

so wait it's just a boiler under the sink? here i thought it was some super tech in the tap itself. we've had boilers under the sink for decades. i assume this is just ramped up to the max but still...

We have one and were very sceptical about paying £600 for the basic model (boiling water only). But I have to say, now that we’ve had it for just over 4 years. (and never needed to replace the filter) there is no way we would live in any property without one. We find that we use it many many times throughout the day and just love having genuinely boiling water on tap!

How often does your quooker tap get so loose? Is this a design flaw or just poor installation? At £1200 I’d expect it to not look like it’s ready to fall out of your counter top after 10yrs! Bet your normal tap and bathroom taps aren’t all loose and floppy!

I wish didnt read the comments. Thanks for the info fellow uk stranger.

Thanks Arlo for taking the time to make this video. Helpful for many of us to hear your genuine review ! ....and sorry you've had such a hard time with the 'anti' brigade elsewhere in the comments !

I'd agree, people don't just stand around waiting for a kettle to boil so the 'time wasted' argument doesn't really hold true. For example, if I'm hoovering and fancy a coffee then I'll put a small amount of water in the kettle, flick the switch then carry on hoovering. Also, in these days of high energy prices one would have to compare the monthly running costs of a Quooker vs. boiling 350ml of water in a kettle for someone's tea/coffee drinking habits - would be interesting to see a comparison. I'm also assuming there are other considerations like Quooker maintenance costs and reliability. One final thing is whether the Quooker can deliver 90° water for coffee in addition to 100° water for tea?

Nobpody boils the whole kettle unless someones coming round for two cups it should only take a few minutes to boil also when I put the kettle on I start preparing take out the milk/sugar/tea/coffee/cup by that time the kettles nearly done.

We have new one of these at work. It spits everywhere and we always get burned. People frequently switch it on wrong and triggers the alarm. You have to replace the filter frequently. Boiling water taps have existed for ages which are more reliable and cheaper and the Quooker. If you have an induction hob use an induction kettle for £50 . It will boil in the time it takes to prepare cup andthe tea leaves

First world problems innit.

I would keep the kettle. I was under the impression a watched kettle never boils. Looks like you have a gem there.

Not dissing the Quooker as I have 2 of them. But, your example of boiling a kettle was a little unfair given how much water you had in it for 1 cup of tea. Hope, you haven't spent 50 years been that wasteful!

love your presentation

I have one of these gadgets. apart from the initial cost, its another £50 for the filter which needs replacing every 6 months or so..... that's an additional [approx] £10 a month .... not sure of what other costs will arise from having it as i've only had it for 6 months!

That Quooker tap is very fierce - our Insinkertor is much calmer. I like the way he badly acts drinking his ‘cup of tea’

but why boil a whole kettle full of water for a cup of tea

The comments just lol. This is a luxury utility which can dispense boiling water into a cup of tea instantly, and also dispense chilled filtered water. You are paying for a luxury utility obviously. People buying something like this can afford to pay more for such a convenience. You could also rant about how lightbulbs are so shit when you can just live by candlelight. Lmfao. Like dude it's not made for you, it's made for people with disposable income.

I like your style. Also I'm gonna get one of these taps

This one has been installed for a right-handed person. How will it work for somebody who's left-handed? Poorly, I think. Not to mention that the whole thing isn't secured properly to the worktop. Also, just realised that there is no draining board; water everywhere!!!

£1200?? In Norway they cost £2000-£3500. To expensive tea water.

I was a bit cynical about these type of taps, however, its not just about cups of tea, I am now a convert, especially for blanching peas, Preparing Cuscus, Spinach etc, I didnt buy a Quooker on, I bought a QETTLE 4 in 1 Tap at half the price.

A watched kettle never boils. If you can’t wait 3 mins to boil a kettle there’s something wrong with you.

So excited to see your channel getting bigger! You deserve it!

Put less water in the kettle like I do. Doesn't take anywhere near the time you say

The biggest joke of the year is when I nearly bought this quooker tap for £1200 before I pinched myself back to my senses. It was a quick call to supplier to cancel. Life goes on….

I dont stand there, i get the cup out, i get the milk and sugar ready, reducing time lost by 50%

loved the review, I wanted to buy one, but ya leave it. I like the generational Analogy

Christ who the hell waits for a kettle to boil. I have kids and I’m always doing lots of other things not waiting for a bloody kettle to boil that’s takes few minutes!

I was looking for an objective and fair review, but I don't think you have given one, well maybe you have. Perhaps it does take you 4 minutes to boil water for a mug of tea, but it takes me about 50 seconds. I only boil the water I want. I think it's fair to say that some people will boil more water than they need and others won't. I think that is where the misconception about saving energy comes from. Also, it looks like the water is unlikely to be "instant" because there is a short piece of pipe from the tank to the tap, so first thing in the morning that's probably 100 ml of water wasted. So roughly a third of the energy for a brew is wasted. In your case perhaps you do save on energy purely because you overfill your kettle. Without doubt, it's a nice bit of kit though. Convenient, yes. Saving energy, well that depends on how you currently boil water and how much you use. Quooker claim you save water as well, but unless people are throwing kettle water down the sink I don't see how. Thanks for posting and the main thing is you like the convenience and speed of it.

water only boils at 100 degrees at sea level! The boiling point of a liquid varies depending upon the surrounding environmental pressure. ... For example, water boils at 100 °C (212 °F) at sea level, but at 93.4 °C (200.1 °F) at 1,905 metres (6,250 ft) altitude. For a given pressure, different liquids will boil at different temperatures.

You should be doing something else while the kettle is boiling, like emptying the dishwasher 😉

Great video, but there's the cost of annual services £150, filter £30, and not to mention the TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) after a period of time! I've had mine 4/5 yrs, and personally wouldn't have another. When you consider the initial tap cost £800 odd, services, filters, 2no new heads as its sucked scale up £150+£90 i reckon the things cost in the region of £1400. How many kettles would that buy! Now trying convince my better half to rip it out!!!!

If someone is saving the time they would have lost from standing watching the kettle boiling, then the time they gain back will most likely not be used well at all 😂 Who in their right mind puts on the kettle and just stands there, waiting 😂😂😂

What a great video, thanks for making a short and interesting review that’s not 15 minutes long!

Best review ever. Time > Money as any fule kno.

I don't know if it's worth it. Even if you never use it during the whole year, you will pay £29 for electricity for Quooker and £43 for GROHE Red. Devices consume: 10W - Quooker, 15W - GROHE Red all the time. Of course, if you use it, you will pay these amounts plus what you used. If you are rich... I can't comment on filters and how often they need to be replaced because I don't know much about it. 2 times a year?

Just watched this ad on TV. I could not believe how much water are these people wasting when rising their veg etc. We have a hot tap (Insnkerator - it’s also cold filer) it’s fantastic but we only use it to make cups/pots of tea. The waste of water here is criminal. Plus dangerous to show young kids using it.

Great review, might get one

Do you really sit waiting for the kettle to boil...

What about all of the maintenance??

1200 qid hmm how of solar panel system would get 4 same cost used panels and installing DIY seen all-in-one of these quooker's what about purity filters?

What about cost of annual service?

at least we now know if a watched pot ever boils

if you put enough water in the kettle for 1 cup of tea it would take less time to boil ! far cheaper than a quooker.

Are the £30 ones you can find on e bay any good?...you know the ones with a tiny heating element built into the tap!

So that boiler under the sink is on all the time, right, how’s that saving any energy? Oh and why on earth do you fill the kettle to the brim to make one cup of tea? 😂😂

What idiot would fill a kettle to the max with water , just to boil one cup of tea .......

Basically he's saying "I'm Berlington Bertie, my people are well off you know... and I've got so much money that I think that pissing away electricity by keeping an amount of water always at 99C is a good idea..." Does the Quooker turn off at night, when nobody is going to be using it? Why is this better than an electric kettle? (Or better still, a gas hob with a gas kettle?) WTF? The fact that a market actually exists for a device this ridiculous tells us a great deal about the state of (some people in) our society... LOL. What problem does the Quooker solve? It's taking up huge amounts of electricity to keep an amount of water at almost boiling point ALL THE TIME. Yet their website says "When you dispense water from your Quooker tap, you use the exact amount of water you need. Unlike with a kettle, whereby people often boil more water than needed...or decide to re-boil it because the water has cooled down, wasting lots of energy!" You don't HAVE to boil more water than you need in a kettle. Quooker is CONSTANTLY using electricity to keep the water at a certain temperature - 24 hours a day! They act as if they can magically heat up water to a certain temperature without using any electricity. Then their website says: "Quooker's patented vacuum tank allows for water to be kept at 110 degrees under pressure. This technology keeps the water hot without needing to use much energy. Think of it as an electrically powered flask, from which no energy can escape. The water only boils when it exits the tap - so it is not constantly boiling inside the vessel. " "Keeps the water hot without needing to use much energy". But how does it get hot in the first place? By using exactly the same amount of electricity as a kettle would use to heat up the same amount of water to the same temperature, but you turn a kettle off and it stays off, whereas Quooker is on ALL the time. Funny how they never mention any of this on their website, and nobody has actually done a review with a watt meter to see how much electricity Quookers are wasting all day long...

just spend a decent kettle for less than 50

Mmm not convinced ,put the kettle on then do whatever/

Wont mold and slime grow in the hot tank?

This is pretty cool, but out of my practical price range... That said, your kettle is very slow. My kettle, which I got 2nd hand for free, fully boils water for 3 cups in 1 minute 20 seconds.

Great device, - but Waaaaaaay too expensive...

This has just inspired me to test my kettle....40 seconds for one full standard mug of cold water to boiling. There is something very wrong with the whole premise of this review. I'll keep my £1200 thanks.

You’ve attracted some pretty vile comments here! All these people complaining about it holding water preheated. I bet some of them have combi boilers holding reservoirs of hot water inefficiently for them to wash their mouths out when they realise. As a review it was a little low on content perhaps. But you picked out the important points and put them across well. Telling other people how to live their lives is the fashion at the moment, perhaps your next review can be how to effectively grovel in the dirt rooting for acorns?

Not recommended when you have small children in the house with scalding boiling water spurting out into a sink. Accident waiting to happen.

Exactly whats missing in my life. Boiling hot water splashing about all over the place.

Not factoring the problems, repairs call out charges and new cartridges (2 years tops). So that’s a 500£ call out charge every 2 years minimum. No thanks I’ll stick to my kettle

Who the hell stands next to a kettle waiting for it to boil ? Get on with some other stuff ffs ! Always filter water for tea, btw.

You can buy kettles that keep your water hot though. Haha

Bullshit how full you failed mention how much power is used by the tap on stand by what kettle you used how much water you had in the kettle. Mmm I smell a sponsorship

Your tea-maths sold me on this.

Funnyman I like

Haha! I always floss my teeth and trim my nose hairs whilst waiting for the kettle to boil.

No thanks, no way you can justify that ridiculous cost and the ongoing running cost. Plus the safety issues with boiling water coming instantly out of a tap. My kettle takes around a minute to boil for one cup. That’s good enough for me.

Avoid expecially if you have small children for safety reasons. Scolding hot water spurting out of a sink tap! even if it has a child safety device. NOT WORTH THE RISK & so expensive!

Breeding ground for bacteria