When filling your kettle, which tap do you fill it from & does it make a difference?

[Poyetry In Motion]

Another vote for Cold Tap!

 

[forrest]

Should always be the cold tap to fill your kettle up. Likewise should always use the cold tap for any other form of drinking water and to wash your veg under.

Hot tap should only ever be used for washing.

 

[bennibenj]

cold - only answer for me

 

[Lush]

Presumably boiling the water gets rid of any nasties in the hot water?

I always fill from the cold tap though. Some piece of wisdom involving pigeons shitting in the loft has stuck in my head from somewhere.

 

[NMH]

cold tap.

 

[Woodchip]

The Cleone water purifier was £1200 plus VAT
The Eceau wave was £1150 plus VAT

Sounds expensive, but after drinking the purified water I avoid tap water whenever possible.

We've got the Pureflo system.

Carbon Hardness Reduction Kit - Water Filter Kits

 

[Don Tmatter]

Cheers everybody for your input, thought i was right, hasnt settled the argument though.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

It depends on what sort of central heating system you have. If you have a header tank then this could, in extreme circumstances, harbour such nasties as Legionella, so it is unwise to use the hot tap in this case, even if the water is boiled.

Legoinella can only be contracted from inhaling infected water vapour , it cannot be caught from drinking infected water

 

[Lush]

Legoinella can only be contracted from inhaling infected water vapour , it cannot be caught from drinking infected water

You don't want to catch that. Can be nasty.

 

[drew]

If you have a combi boiler, or a direct water system, than all cold taps are fed directly from the rising main, and are potable.

If you have a combi boiuler, then your hot water is fed directly from the rising main... through the boiler. i.e. it hasn't been sat in a tank somewhere, and is as potable as the cold supply.

If you have an indirect water system, (hot water cylinder and cold water tank in the loft), then you should only drink from the kitchen tap, as that is the only garunteed potable water in the house.

Spillchocker anyone?

 

[SeagullSongs]

Cold tap, only because it fills the kettle about 5 times faster than the hot tap.
And our hot tap takes a while to get up to temperature anyway.

 

[countryman]

Always the cold.

 

[Willy Dangle]

Help settle an ongoing argument between me & Mrs Tmatter over which is better to fill kettle from.
I always fill from the cold tap, she fills from the hot tap.

Hot tap must make it taste shit for tea. Hot water has less oxygen in it and then boiling removes even more. Makes the tea taste like a defeat to Palace.

 

[Brighton TID]

Everyone knows that if a rat gets into your loft it is likely to piss in the water tank which feeds the hot water cylinder. Therefore, by implication you could contract Weils Disease and die from flu like symptoms by filling the kettle using the hot tap. Whoever suggested this is a dirty bastard.

 

[clapham_gull]

Everyone knows that if a rat gets into your loft it is likely to piss in the water tank which feeds the hot water cylinder. Therefore, by implication you could contract Weils Disease and die from flu like symptoms by filling the kettle using the hot tap. Whoever suggested this is a dirty bastard.

If you have a water tank ?

 

[omgitsjames]

Dual taps? what's that?

 

[Nottseagull]

You shouldn't use reboiled water for making tea, boiling the water removes some of the oxygen in the water.

So what happens to the hydrogen atoms when oxygen is removed from water? There are two for every one of oxygen in a water molecule.

 

[Woodchip]

So what happens to the hydrogen atoms when oxygen is removed from water? There are two for every one of oxygen in a water molecule.

And oxygen gets lonely so needs to be in pair. This means you'd have 4 spare hydrogen atoms now free to go and make themselves something else.