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Confused about Instant hot/ cold/ filtered - Please guide me
Comments (20)Kinetico RO.....Highly recommend the K5W unit....the one with the "water-on-water" storage tank, which I believe is Kinetico exclusive. Much superior to their own or anyone else's air-bladder tanks. Uses line water-pressure for delivery so no drop-off in flow rate from full to empty. Also refills with zero back-pressure so replenishment is much faster and with much less wasted water. I've had two of them at different locations for more than a year. 2.7 gallons capacity. Flows about 1.2 gallons per minute at my 65psi line pressure. Refills from empty in under an hour. Far superior to previous (or current) air-bladder tank. Worth every penny of the extra in terms of convenience IMHO. (Had previous Kinetico RO units for 18 years with zero problems. Responded to their exchange-discount offer.) Kinetico is high-end supplier but they absolutely do hold up their end of the bargain in my experience. They did everything. I did nothing....See MoreInstant-Hot versus Pot-Filler. If you only get one, which one?
Comments (35)One nice alternative if you want but can't have an instant hot is an electric kettle---we got one a few months before our remodel, and have been using it for all sorts of things. It boils far faster than our kettle did on the gas stove, and I also love the auto shutoff. No more trying to remember if I turned the stove off after I'm at work! It will have its own space in the new kitchen, and will be the primary source for hot water. We are also in the extreme minority in GW land and only have one water source in the kitchen---not even a fridge line! (Okay, technically it's split for the d/w, so I guess that's 1.5...) It's what we had before and we liked it, so we kept it that way. Works for us. I like the idea of an instant hot, but we have a small kitchen and the under-sink real estate was too valuable to put one in. I contemplated a pot filler, but our stove is close enough to the sink that we wouldn't gain that much. Friends who have one that is very close to the sink still love it because it allows them to fill pots with a child in one arm. You still have to put the child down to empty it, of course, but makes it a little easier! We have a hot water dispenser at work, which I do use, but I do find the water is not quite hot enough for tea. I use it anyway for that since I'm lazy, though. :) (You also may be able to change the settings; no clue how it works, exactly.) I've seen steamers (someone around here who posted a finished kitchen recently has one, I think) and they're very cool, but really only logical to have if you steam things virtually every night or if you have a really large kitchen with space that isn't needed for other things....See MoreWhy do you need instant hot water at the sink?
Comments (22)There are many teas that are more optimally brewed at temps below boiling. Especially green tea. Just had to throw that out there. I didn't put one in, and sometimes I regret it. Grew up with one, my parents' current kitchen has one. Mom's favorite discovery was that if she was measuring something sticky - say molasses or corn syrup for a recipe - she'd quickly run the measuring cup under the hot tap to make it nice and warm then the molasses or honey would slide right out of the cup. But, she initially installed it for easy tea, cocoa and that type of thing. With a temp set at 200* it was definitely fine for brewing a cup of tea. She used it for all the above mentioned options as well. Quick rinsing and refreshing pasta among them. My dad is now a widower and will use it to get a quick start on pasta water. Fill the pot from the insta-hot, put it on the stove and it is boiling that much faster, almost instantly. Safety. That really depends on how often your child is playing at the sink where you would install it. They might now come with safety features. It is certainly hot enough to cause a burn. Depending on the ages of the kids, I think they could be taught pretty quickly not to mess with it....See Moreinstant hots - ISE vs. Quck & Hot
Comments (13)mooring_girl - Thanks for the warning! I know that I will need a separate chiller; I was planning on the ProSelect unless there's a strong reason to spend the extra for an EverCold. alku05 - Thanks, I think the 1100 series ISE will give the same look. From the installation instructions, it looks like the ISE 1100 has two separate water supply lines - one is the ambient supply for the hot side, the other is the supply for the cold lever. The install instructions have you putting a Y-connector to hook both those lines to ambient in; I'll see what ISE tech support has to say about hooking them up separately. Or maybe I should just use two separate holes.. I was trying to minimize holes in the deck. So far I have: - Faucet (at least one hole, possibly more) - Sprayer (if I end up with a pull-up type.. hopefully not but we'll see) - airgap - Potfiller for filtered ambient water (planning to use a pitcher/glass filler.. the undersink water filter I'm putting in can deliver approx. 2.5GPM, so it's worth having a full faucet for the filtered water.) - instant hot - now, possibly a separate instant cold (btw, I just now noticed my typo in the title of the original post!)...See MoreRelated Professionals
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