Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap

Is the Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap worth buying?

The Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap is worth buying at £194.99 if you want boiling, hot and cold water from one mixer and can live with 98°C water rather than a true 100°C boil. The box brings the tap, the boiler unit and a filter, so there is no second purchase needed to get it running. It suits a kitchen being refitted now, where the worktop is already drilled and the finish has to match an existing chrome mixer.

It is not the tap for a tea purist, or for anyone who wants the biggest feedback set on the page. 96 owners have rated it 3.7, the weakest average of the Ellsi pair, and the matte black version of the same kit is a penny cheaper with 124 owners at 3.9. If a real boil is the whole point, the QETTLE 3-in-1 pours at 100°C for £205.01 more.

What does £194.99 of Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap actually buy?

The Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap weighs 7.87 kg, and spread over that brass body the price works out at £24.78 per kilogram you fit under the worktop. The matte black version puts its £194.98 over 9 kg, which is £21.66 per kilogram, so the chrome tap costs £3.12 per kilogram more for carrying 1.13 kg less metal. In the cupboard that lighter body is the one you can hold up with one hand while you tighten the tails underneath.

Brass is what carries the 360° swivel spout and the hydro-aerator that mixes air into the ordinary hot and cold supply. That aerator is what stops a fast-running mixer from throwing water across the worktop when you rinse a pan. Each tap is hand tested before it leaves, and the boiling side runs through its own insulated channel, so the metal around the spout stays cool to the touch straight after a pour.

What comes in the box and how hard is it to fit?

The Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap arrives as a kit: the mixer, the boiler unit that stands in the cupboard below and a filter. The package measures 45.8 cm by 37.7 cm by 34 cm, so it travels home in a car boot and the boiler takes roughly the footprint of a small bin on the cabinet floor. Everything needed for the first fit is in the box.

The filter is the one part that keeps costing after installation, because the cartridge is what keeps limescale out of the boiler and gets replaced on a schedule. The tap has been on sale since 29 September 2021, so the design is settled and the feedback behind it is long-run rather than first-batch. At 7.87 kg, have a second person steady the body while you connect underneath.

Where the Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap falls short

The boiling side stops at 98°C rather than a true 100°C, and 2°C is the sort of gap a proper tea drinker notices in the cup even when nobody else does. Chrome brings its own daily chore: every fingerprint and water spot shows, especially around the lever where hands land, and it needs a wipe to keep looking new. The matte black version of the same kit hides all of that.

The feedback behind it is also thin for a tap that has been around since 2021, with 96 owners rating it 3.7. That is below the 3.9 the matte Ellsi holds from 124 owners and well under the 4.6 the QETTLE taps carry. It is not a broken tap at that score, but you are buying into the weaker half of the record on this page.

How does the Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap compare with the alternatives?

The closest rival is the matte black Ellsi at £194.98, a penny less for the same 3-in-1 format with tap, boiler and filter. The matte tap weighs 9 kg against 7.87 kg here, so the chrome one is 1.13 kg easier to handle during fitting, and it carries 124 ratings at 3.9 against 96 at 3.7. Buy chrome if the finish has to match your kitchen; buy matte if you would rather not polish.

The QETTLE 3-in-1 is £400, which is £205.01 more, and it pours a true 100°C at the spout from a 2-litre insulated boiler. Choose that one when boiling water is the entire reason you are buying a tap. Choose the Ellsi Chrome Boiling Tap when you want boiling, hot and cold, a boiler and a filter for £194.99 and 98°C is close enough.