We're remodeling, and putting a water spray near the stove for filling up large vessels, and other times when water is needed at the stove.
Anyone know the proper terminology for these?
Anyone have one? Is it a snake type, or articulated?
Like them? Hate them? Caveats? Tips? Brand names suggestions?
Steve
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Do you have the wall open to run the necessary plumbing? I've seen one installed in a new construction home. Ken is a fireman and does the cooking in his house.
Maybe called a "potfiller", some are very expensive ($700.00). Yikes!
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On 10/21/2010 1:11 PM Steve B spake thus:
A friend whose house I helped remodel installed one. Dunno what the official term is for these. His was a long upside-down "U" shape which swiveled, chrome. He was very happy he put it in. Every house should have one.
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I have used pot filler faucets in commercial kitchens, where in some cases they are extremely useful. I doubt they are worth the bother in a home kitchen.
These faucets normally are mounted high over the stove and swivel by at least 2 joints. They may also have a pull-out nozzle with trigger valve for one-hand operation. There is a risk of accident involving too much water spashing on a hot stove, and they have to be cleaned just about every time you use the stove.
If getting water from the sink to the stove is a problem, then won't it be a problem also getting a heavy pot from the stove to the sink?
At home I prefer to carry a pot or pitcher of water from the sink to the stove.
Una
I don't see the point, especially if you have a pull-down faucet at the sink that allows you to fill your pots on the countertop. Having a specialized pot filler is just another thing to break or leak.
It's about as silly as having a glass-filling faucet hanging over the dinner table. Using your legs for a few extra steps a few times a week won't hurt you.
There's lot of "accoutrements" with more downsides than upsides. But people that have them swear by them. One reason I prefer used Chevys over Buicks is the crap that usually comes with Buicks. Don't want power seats, heated seats, climate control, tire pressure monitors, etc. Just adds complexity, and expense if something goes wrong, which is about 99% of the time. But others eat that stuff up and brag about it.
My wife is a corporate cafeteria chef, and has faucets only over the steam kettles. They hold 50 gallons. But she quit using them long ago as they don't make sense for her cooking. She uses 10 gallon kettles on a stove. There's a sink next to the stove. She uses a gallon container to put what's needed in the kettles. She just smirked when I mentioned "stove faucets." Of course she measures the water used in most recipes. Hmmmm. Do stove faucets have water meters?
Yep, pretty silly to me and my professional chef who feeds 500 people, but those that have a stove faucet to feed a huge party of 40 once a year on Thanksgiving will surely swear by them. I don't begrudge them. Got nothing against the Stove Faucet Manufacturers of America Association either. To each his own. Hell, I don't even want an icemaker complicating my fridge. Never had a problem getting cubes from an ice tray.
--Vic
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While you can buy aftermarket parts from various suppliers for the most common faucets, you might have to go to the manufacturer to get replacement water seals in the articulating joints of those faucets, and they might prove to be exhorbitantly expensive.
You see, the manufacturer is going to take the view that the cost of repair parts should cover the entire cost of they're having to stock an inventory of repair parts for those comparitively rare faucets. And that cost won't just be the cost of manufacturing the repair parts, but will include the cost of doing an annual inventory, a fraction of the cost of the rent or property tax they pay on the warehouse they store those parts in, a fraction of the utility bills they have to pay on that warehouse, and a fraction of the salaries paid to warehouse employees. The manufacturer is going to reason that if the cost of the repair parts doesn't cover all of that, they're losing money by even offering repair parts to customers, and that the smarter strategy might be to market pot fillers made in China for $29.99 a pop, and not even bother with repair parts. That's a common theme nowadays.
So, before you commit to buying any manufacturer's "pot filler", you might want to phone the manufacturer's 1-800 customer service phone number and ask what they charge for a set of water seals for those nifty articulating joints. You may find out that replacements parts for such a comparitively rare faucet are exhorbitantly expensive. If so, that's another thing you have to weigh into your decision.
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Commercial faucets (Chicago) are available that attach vertically. In a 3 sink set-up it is mounted in the middle and can reach the other
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Aside: Avoid the temptation to use the water outlet on an oil fire.
There was an episode on Mythbusters recently where they ignited one cup of hot oil on the stove, then dumped ONE-HALF cup of water on the flames.
This piddly effort shot a ball of fire THIRTY freakin' feet into the air, singing low flying birds (the experiment was done outside) to the cries of "DAMN!" and "THAT'S COOL!" from the assembled bystanders.
This worked so well, they rigged up their own time bomb. A one-quart saucepan, couple of cups of oil, and a #2 can of Campbell's Soup Stock. Put the can in the oil, the oil on the stove, light the fire, decamp.
Eventually the can burst and, well, you can imagine...
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Garden hose.
It's about as silly as having a glass-filling faucet hanging over the dinner table. Using your legs for a few extra steps a few times a week won't hurt you.
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While it is easy for you to carry a pot with 20 pounds of water from sink to stove, for someone with arthritis it may be impossible. It may also be very tiring for that person to take four or six pitchers to the sink also.
To answer the inevitable next question, once the pot is on the stove, no, it does not always have to be carried back to the sink. The water may now be soup and ladled out in small increments. Or the spouse of the cook is now home from work and can empty the pot.
As for using your legs for a few extra steps, if you get your head out of your ass long enough to look around, you will see there are people with only one or even no legs or legs that don't work so well.
Another clueless #$%^^ Stop by a rehab center or senior center and ask the people there if they would like a pot filler.
In a bad mood today, Ed?
I'm sure there are plenty of handicap accessories that don't belong in most kitchens. We're not discussing handicap kitchens.
On 10/22/2010 11:07 AM mike spake thus:
We're also not discussing "most kitchens"; we're discussing the OP's kitchen. They asked us what we thought of having a pot-filler near the stove. A lot of us, myself included, think it's a dandy idea. You're free to disagree, of course. But in the end it's up to the OP as to whether it's worth installing.
If we're not discussing handicap kitchens, then aren't we discussing non-handicap kitchens, which are most kitchens?
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