Owning your own home

not very sensible

TBH I'd be more worried about it permanently disfiguring my children.

whatever one my mum has in her house is so safety-designed I just use the kettle anyway

scale control filter

If it's one of those magnetic woo devices I wouldn't expect it to do anything

It's pretty obvious from that photo it's not doing anything!

God the contrast to today is appalling.

Not sure the contrast is as strong as you think.

The Peteris (sp?) were white, we only send brown/black people to Rwanda (c.f. Ukrainians).

Quookers are an abomination.

My next door neighbour still boils a kettle on the hob, a proper old fashioned whistling one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUbpCdbyXTc&ab_channel=SingingKettletv

I mean, if you think boiling an electrical kettle is an inconvenient...!

Hot water taps are convenient and a bit of a marvel but the idea they are ‘green’ or even economical as Quooker would have you believe seems a bit of a stretch.

I was thinking the same if comparing just Vs a kettle as you'd need to wastefully heat about 2.5 litres to equal the standby energy. The combi makes a better argument.
https://www.quooker.co.uk/energy

With over filling kettles by just 1 litre per day (three extra cups 3x per day) and running taps to finally get hot water (1 litre at 50° three times a day) lots of houses would easily break even or win on the energy.

Factor in the £1k purchase and service costs it looks less attractive once more. Especially if you have any form of solar power to heat your water or power the kettle.

Stove top whistling kettles on an electric induction hobs is a thing.

It's a Walthamstow terrace (badly) converted into two flats and rented out by a shonky landlord which until recently didn't actually have a council licence (illegal in E17).

I don't think there are any induction hobs.

I was more commenting on people with high end induction jobs and £200+ induction stove top kettles.

I use a 25 quid ikea stovetop on an induction hob, saves kitchen worktop space, and not having to have an ugly plastic kettle in my kitchen.

Don’t forget the Cube, that’s also plugged in for chilled and sparkling water.

I’ll admit it was a vanity purchase, but it is convenient and it’s nice to not have a kettle on a worktop anywhere.

But you do pay for the luxury, filters CO2 and servicing is a bit of a PIA.

Ha yeah don't worry I figured!

I need to get me one of these high end induction jobs so I can afford a £200+ induction kettle. And an induction hob to put it on.

What would I actually have to do again in such a role...?

What's the energy price math on induction stovetop vs. normal kettle?

This is good news for future generations of Scottish children.

Thought I was going to have to set user @rippertong on all the hot water tap users for a minute there...

Yeah - I don’t have anything against them. Good for a minimal look and saving counter space. If they were cheaper and never needed servicing I’d have one.

Found Quookers own assertions around that owning one is saving the planet a bit much though!

TBH the only bit of 'saving the planet' guff that piqued our interest, was why we got the cube. We drink a lot of sparkling water, so now we have almost eliminated the number of plastic water bottles we go through... energy saving was not even a consideration for us when we got it.

Perrier. Glass bottles and good enough to keep on display.

Just keep pushing the babies in the grinder and you can have your induction hob.

Surely drinking sparking water is saving the world. We have too much Co2, so if you're drinking it then your taking it out of the atmosphere. I say well done, good on you!

Dentists would be happy if more people drank sparkling water.

I was concerned about this, but the only academic study I could find says it's a myth.

Except the co2 then escapes out of your mouth or your arse.
The more fizzy drinks we drink, the more gets extracted, but I imagine co2 is created in the process of extracting co2, so net increase of co2 most likely.

whoosh. that's the sounds of sparkling water going right over your head...