Our new(ish) kitchen conversion is a long way from the hot cylinder in the airing cupboard, with the result that it takes a long time to get hot water when we run the hot tap. It's not really feasible to retro-fit a pumped circulation loop.
SWMBO fancies a boiling water tap - probably a Quooker jobbie with a dedicated tap and 3 litre insulated container under the sink. This would arguably do away with needing a kettle for boiling water for tea and coffee and for filling saucepans prior to cooking vegetables. Three litres of near boiling water diluted with cold should be enough for the odd hand washing-up session (the dishwasher does 90% of the washing up).
Have any of you got one of these, or something similar? If you put aside the shock of the cost[1] do they do what it says on the tin? Any particular pros and cons you've come across?
The Quooker device apparently has a water filter on the *outlet* side, but some people seem to suggest that in hard water areas (which we are) you also need a filer on the inlet side. Any comments?
[1] At about £700+ there's not a cat-in-hell's chance of making an economic case for one of these. Every time we run the hot tap after a period on non-use, I reckon that we waste about 3 litres of water. We don't do this more than once a day on average - so it would take a hell of a long time in saved (metered) water rates and gas costs to offset the capital cost of one of these things - by which time it would probably have come to the end of its useful life! So it's a question of whether it can be justified in terms of convenience. SWMBO thinks it can and, anyway, she fancies one - so that's that!