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

[Braders]

But I've never seen the difference hot or cold water in a kettle.

So that's why my tea tastes weird

 

[leigull]

Of course you can! Unless it's been languishing there for days, that water will be even safer than the fresh cold water from your kitchen tap.

Nope! Tastes funny when you reboil it. Maybe safer but it don't taste right I tell ya

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Straight from the bog me, gives coffee an extra bit of flavour

 

[Barrow Boy]

Nope! Tastes funny when you reboil it. Maybe safer but it don't taste right I tell ya

You shouldn't use reboiled water for making tea, boiling the water removes some of the oxygen in the water. Tea requires boiling oxygenated water for the chemical reaction to take place which produces a perfect pot/cup of tea. Got that from a tea manufacturer (Twynings I think) on a tv programme.

 

[leigull]

You shouldn't use reboiled water for making tea, boiling the water removes some of the oxygen in the water. Tea requires boiling oxygenated water for the chemical reaction to take place which produces a perfect pot/cup of tea. Got that from a tea manufacturer (Twynings I think) on a tv programme.

 

[KJP]

Cold tap

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I have an Eceau water filter, so have a special tap

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

I have an Eceau water filter, so have a special tap

Is that as special as 'The Quooker' though? Boiling water on tap.....

 

[Meade's Ball]

My live-in girlfriend uses the hot water tap to fill the kettle and too many times fills an empty glass from the cold tap in the bathroom. Thanks to her ways she's from a third world country: Spain. She brushes her teeth nine times a day too and my theory is that it's purely down to how many germs she coats her gnashers with everytime she drinks and her subconscious screams her to cleanse. I never accept a hot drink from her.
If you saw us you'd identify me as the filthy one too. Which i am deep down.

 

[seagullondon]

My live-in girlfriend uses the hot water tap to fill the kettle and too many times fills an empty glass from the cold tap in the bathroom. Thanks to her ways she's from a third world country: Spain. She brushes her teeth nine times a day too and my theory is that it's purely down to how many germs she coats her gnashers with everytime she drinks and her subconscious screams her to cleanse. I never accept a hot drink from her.
If you saw us you'd identify me as the filthy one too. Which i am deep down.

another brilliant post!

 

[banjo]

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Is that as special as 'The Quooker' though? Boiling water on tap.....

No, but it is about as pure as you can get.

Eceau

 

[Normal Rob]

No, but it is about as pure as you can get.

Eceau

How much does it cost - I notice that they say 'call for details' which always makes me think it costs a bleeding bomb.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

If I've just done the washing up and there is hot water ready I'll use that if not its the cold tap.

 

[BearwoodSeagull]

Cold - straight from the mains.

 

[TheJasperCo]

I always fill from the cold tap as well.

 

[binky]

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.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

How much does it cost - I notice that they say 'call for details' which always makes me think it costs a bleeding bomb.

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.

 

[Notters' Dad]

The tap in the kitchen.

 

[mistahclarke]

the cold, but let it run through a bit or the water tastes like shit (metaphorically of course, it's not a sewage pipe...... oh wait)