Boiling Water Taps

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do Boiling Water Taps save you money?

They're often seen in offices but boiling water taps are increasingly popular for the home kitchen too. They hold hot water at a constant temperature in a tank under your sink and claim to save you money compared to boiling a regular kettle. But does the evidence back up the marketing hype?

Listener Jenny got in touch with Sliced Bread because she's upgrading her kitchen and is thinking about investing in a boiling water tap. She's keen to know how the figures for daily use stack up - and if there IS a saving how long it would take before she gets her money back on the original outlay. And then there's maintenance too...

Greg is joined in the studio by Jenny and energy expert Mark Thompson to crunch the numbers, along with Debbie Birkbeck from Stopcocks Women Plumbers.

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PRESENTER: GREG FOOT

PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND PHIL SANSOM

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0:46.8	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the wonder products, promising to make you happier, healthier or greener.
0:54.9	Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
1:03.0	And this week, I'm joined by Jenny Dells from South West London. Hello, Jenny. Hello. Tell us the wonder product that you would like us to investigate and why. Okay, so I'm wondering about
1:07.1	boiling water taps. Several years ago, we did our house up and we got our kitchen
1:11.8	done up. And we thought about buying a boiling water tap. They could see the convenience of it,
1:16.2	getting boiling water, especially when we're cooking, straight away without having to boil a
1:19.7	kettle. But then we looked at the cost and they were quite expensive. And at that point,
1:25.2	somebody told us there was no point in buying a cheap one
1:27.7	there was a particular brand we should buy and that was about a thousand pounds
1:31.4	and we decided it wasn't worth it is that the brand cooker it is the brand cooker
1:35.7	it's spelt QU double okay ER but apparently it is cooker yes that's the one so
1:41.3	but since then I've been thinking about it Quite a few of my friends have the taps.
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