Best hot water dispensers according to redditors

It doesn't make a good cup of tea. Partly because the microwave won't evenly heat the water, so it's not fully boiling throughout.

Second, dropping the tea bag into the water doesn't let it steep properly. The water has to be absorbed by the bag, then the tea, then pass back out the leaves before you get a steep. If you just drop the bag in, that takes a while and it doesn't infuse well.

So you want to boil the full cup of water, and pour it over the tea bag, in order to fully bring out the flavor of the tea. You're best off getting a kettle, using the "hot water" function of a coffee maker, or even picking up a cheap hot water dispenser.

Finally, tea bags use the cheapest tea you can possibly get. This is equivalent to drinking the cheapest beer or wine you can get: it basically tastes like it should, but it's not good. Which is fine if you just want something to drink, like a hot cup of tea to start your day.

If you want good tea, you have to get loose leaf tea (and there's different quality levels to the leaves, but that's getting picky). Plus, you want to steep the tea loose, not in a bag, a "tea ball" or any other container. The leaves need room to expand as they soak up the water, to get the most flavor from them. Which means you'll just pour the water on the loose leaves, then strain the leaves out as you pour it into a cup for drinking. I like to use a coffee press, but others just use a fine-mesh strainer or have a strainer built into their teapot.

Most mornings though, I just toss a tea bag in a coffee mug and dispense boiling water from our Keurig onto it. Occasionally, I'll use a Keurig pod of tea, but those aren't very good, just fast. I'll spend the time to do proper loose leaf if I'm home and enjoying the day, but tea bags are just too damn convenient.

tl;dr Just boil your water without using a microwave and pour it on top of the tea bag, you'll get a much better cup of tea.

Shaving cream is much easier to lather than soap. Indeed, when I started I simply could not get a good lather from soap, so I quit using shaving cream to force myself to learn. Here's how I make lather, and I recommend that you make a series of practice lathers using the technique to gain experience quickly. Play with brush speed, brush pressure (firm is good), and how long you continue loading once you see microscopic bubbles. But do try the exact procedure before trying modifications.

Here's a good YouTube tutorial, but note my comments on it.

With hard water you definitely have a problem. You can try a distilled water shave simply to see what a good lather is like. Some routinely use distilled water, but some home layouts make it sort of a pain unless you have a Sunbeam Hot Shot or the like in the bathroom.

You can try using a small pinch of citric acid in the water, which softens hard water somewhat. Citric acide is a white crystalline powder that looks like salt (and indeed can be sprinkled over food as a salt substitute, similar to squeezing a lemon over food: brightens the flavor without salt).

I use both work and thrift. My employees all drive nicer cars than I do. I buy my clothes at thrift shops, grow a lot of my own food, rarely eat out, my wife cuts my hair, etc.

I am now at a point where I would consider myself semi-retired (in my early 40s). My businesses both have managers, so any "work" that I do is either meetings, or driving around picking up supplies that ran out unexpectedly. I don't have regular hours, so I get to spend a massive amount of time with my wife and kids. My wife no longer works, so we get to garden, can, and thrift shop as much as we want.

Yesterday my "work" consisted of calling a plumber friend (one other bonus to owning your own business is that you make friends with a lot of other business owners, who will do favors for you) and arranging for him to install an instant hot water dispenser in one of my commercial buildings. I'll get the instant hot water heater installed for next to nothing, and the lease holder is willing to pay $5 a month more in rent for the duration of her lease. She likes tea.

https://www.amazon.com/InSinkErator-H-HOT150SN-SS-Instant-Dispenser-Stainless/dp/B01LR7AJOQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1521385561&sr=8-4&keywords=instant+hot

Shortest run? Blind testing? There's only one way to get hot water in a home. From a hot water heater. Unless you have a second hot water heater serving just that faucet, it's the only answer.


The only other way...and I can't believe I'm thinking it. Did you have an instant hot water system put in for that sink and it get misplumbed?

[Example](InSinkErator HOT100 Instant Hot Water Dispenser System - Faucet & Tank, Chrome, H-HOT100C-SS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZC5QRCI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pciWDb7XPXY1Y)

They do have instant hot water heaters like this, but I do like your idea:

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https://www.amazon.com/InSinkErator-H-HOT150SN-SS-Instant-Dispenser-Stainless/dp/B01LR7AJOQ/

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Back when people had wood burning stoves they would keep kettles with water on them to always have hot water ready I think. As long as the water gets changed out every day or so it would be fine I think.

Consider an in-sink hot water dispenser. Great for hot tea, blanching vegetables, filling sauce pans, I could go on an on. Best add on feature by for fo me. A close second is above and below led lights on the cabinets. Automated and fully dimmable.


InSinkErator H-WaveC-SS Involve Wave Instant Hot Water Dispenser System with Stainless Steel Tank, Chrome https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W0Q61K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_3trLBb5VCHPZQ

For heating water, the Sunbeam Hot Shot will heat a mug of water in about 30seconds-1min. It's indispensable at my office. I can't speak whether this would be easier than an immersion heater though.

There should be enough empty space in the box to store a mug, strainer and a bag or two of loose leaf, so you could package everything up between hospitals.

Maybe not the same, but I have this one cup thing. Boils just enough for one cup of coffee or tea, or ramen.

Now I picked up something closer to a kettle awhile back, but stuggle to find uses for it. I don't ever need that much hot water at a time for anything.

I just got this (http://www.amazon.com/Aladdin-Tea-12-Ounce-Infuser-Blue/dp/B001Q3L9PA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292857228&sr=8-1) as a present and I think it'd be perfect for you. The infuser is built into the lid, so you can remove the leaves when they're done steeping without worrying where to put the infuser, and when your next 15 minute break comes in, just refill with hot water and get another wash of the leaves. It's incredibly easy to clean, just rinse out the infuser at the end of the day. You can heat the water with this pup right here: http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-6131-Water-Dispenser-Black/dp/B000C3QSPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292806382&sr=8-1

Something like this or this?

I have an older version of this at work currently. Pretty inexpensive, but it doesn't hold as much as the Zujiroshi and the only temp you get is boiling.

Ahem.

http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-6131-Water-Dispenser-Black/dp/B000C3QSPQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1321807369&sr=8-6

I have a crappy electronic stove and a microwave.

I also use a "hot shot" which you can think of as a tiny personal 0.5 liter electric kettle that works on 110volts and cycles in about 90 seconds.

Those are all opened box, appears new condition. But I did find similar insinkerator on amazon new from 175-400.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ol/B00ZC5QRCI/ref=olp_tab_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

That’s interesting, turns out there are insinkerator models in Aus for about $AUD800

https://www.bunnings.com.au/insinkerator-hot-water-tap_p5110344

which is the cheapest I’ve seen, obviously 240V options are different to 120V

My mum boils all the farm water she drinks and I wanted her to get one when she recently renovated her kitchen but $2000 was too expensive, she probably would have said $800 is too. $2000 is cray but these aren’t common in residential installations in Aus so the prices are maybe targeted and inflated for commercial applications.

I ended up breaking down and buying a Hot Shot Water Heater for my desk.

Ready Hot RH-100-F560-BN Hot Water Dispenser System, Includes Brushed Nickel Dual Lever Faucet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NHXH80C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_SXbaCb1AX67AF

Thanks for the AMA lots of useful stuff here. I have a question I recently purchased and home and it has one of those InSinkErator under the sink water heaters. I noticed it doesn't actually heat any water I tried turning up the heat and unplugging/replugging it but I doesn't seems to be working any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or is my machines just done?

So what you're talking about is something like this: https://www.amazon.com/InSinkErator-H-CONTOUR-SS-Contour-Dispenser-Stainless/dp/B00CZ3OU6A/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hot+water+tap&qid=1555535474&s=gateway&sr=8-1
OR this:
https://www.amazon.com/B-Crew-Tankless-Electric-Kitchen/dp/B01ARQ39CW/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=hot+water+tap&qid=1555535474&s=gateway&sr=8-6

How many amps does the unit you have use?
If it only takes a few minutes to heat up and can reach near boiling, can be suitable for a lot of uses, but does it heat up fast enough without drawing a ridculous power to heat up at least 5gal of water or what you might want for at least a 10min shower?

For example the second link states: Hot water dispenser provides 60 cups / hour of near boiling water.

By far the Hotshot is my favorite appliance for making a cup of tea. Put water in, press button, it boils, press button to pour right into the cup! Love it so much!

Link here: Hotshot

...though I am lacking a good tea kettle, which would be great for larger quantities of tea, and for water for all the non-stovetop teapots I have. I'll have to look at all the other comments later for ideas!

No clue.. we do have the ones that get permanently installed, like this -

http://www.amazon.com/Waste-King-H711-U-SN-Coronado-Dispenser/dp/B0095SNHBC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393887121&sr=8-1&keywords=instant+hot

but those are expensive and hard to install. I can't say as I've seen anything like what you linked and there's nothing like it on amazon.

Hot water dispenser. It's perfect. http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-6170-Water-Dispenser-White/dp/B000C3S6Z6

When I was five years old, I was at my grandmother's house and noticed that she had a small, bulky faucet next to her kitchen sink's on/off knob. I thought it was a soap dispenser, and turned it on. I noticed that it had a spring that shut it off shortly after the knob was released. Wanting to try out this cool soap/water mixture dispenser, I climbed up on to the counter so that i could shove my hands under the faucet after releasing the knob, before it shut off.

I do just that.

Turns out it's an Instahot. Both of my hands were under it for that instant it was on.

If I had not lived in the UK for a while I would not know that electric kettles existed. We do have them here and I got one because I do pour over coffee in a Chemex instead of in a standard coffee machine, but they are not remotely as common as in the UK.

Growing up, we did have something called a Hot Shot. It's essentially the same thing except it's less water, like just a cup, and it's meant for dispensing straight into a mug such as for hot cocoa or instant oatmeal or something.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000C3QSPQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OUVTDb26Q1VVA

https://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-Water-Dispenser-Black-006131/dp/B000C3QSPQ/

Sort of like a personal electronic kettle, which heats a large mug-full of water in a minute or so.

They last about 3-5 years worth of daily use and Sunbeam can't seem to figure out that it needs an extra inch or so of clearance for today's larger mugs.