With domestic fuel prices rising, just about everyone’s giving at least a passing thought to how they can cut down on their energy consumption. Even if we’re not doing so out of environmental motives, we are keen to reduce our household bills.
You might be forgiven for thinking that a tap that can provide 100ºC boiling water instantaneously at any time of the day or night could be something of a luxury when it comes to energy consumption. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you want an energy efficient kitchen, then a Quooker tap, particularly a Quooker COMBI that mixes boiling water with your normal cold feed, is a must – here’s why!
A boiling water tap is great for making hot drinks, snacks and hot water bottles in seconds, all more efficiently than a kettle. But that’s just the start. A Quooker is also amazing at cleaning pans, beaters, baking trays and all those kitchen gadgets that are fiddly and hard to wash up.
Actually, some of the biggest savings to be had are in good old conventional washing up, as one of our customers pointed out just this week.
He tells us that since installing a Quooker COMBI the family now only uses their normal domestic hot water supply to wash their hands in the downstairs cloakroom. All other hot water for cooking, cleaning and washing up they now get from their Quooker tap. This has allowed them to reduce their domestic hot water heating by 30 minutes a day, which gives them a significant saving on their gas consumption. They’re also saving on electricity because the Quooker is more energy efficient than a kettle.
And here’s a staggering thought – how much energy would it take to heat a swimming pool of water until it’s hot enough to wash up with? Because that’s how much water and energy we waste every year in drawing off and discarding water until we get some that’s hot enough to wash up with.
But that’s cold water isn’t it, you say? Well, no. Every time we draw off hot water, we leave a run of pipework of several metres filled with hot water, between the hot water tank and the tap. This just sits in the pipe losing heat. By the time we next need hot water it will be cold and will be discarded before the tap runs hot enough again. Over the course of the year, we’ll waste about a swimming pool of water. All of it will have started off as hot water, and all of it represents wasted fuel we’ll have paid for and never felt the benefit of.
The Quooker quite simply cuts out all that waste of fuel and water.
And that’s why we exerted ourselves – to invent a 100ºC boiling water tap to save you energy.
