QETTLE 4-in-1 Boiling Water Tap

Is the QETTLE 4-in-1 Boiling Water Tap worth buying?

Yes, the QETTLE 4-in-1 Boiling Water Tap is worth buying at £620 if your kitchen makes a lot of hot drinks and you want the drinking water filtered as well. 683 owners have rated it 4.4, and it pours at a true 100°C at the spout, which nothing else in the same nine-tap group does. The £220 premium over the QETTLE 3-in-1 buys exactly one extra job: cold water, filtered, straight from the tap.

Walk away from it if nobody in the house drinks chilled filtered water, because the 3-in-1 boils at the same 100°C for £400. Walk away from it too if you were planning to fit it alone on a Sunday afternoon: at 12.1 kg it is the heaviest tap in the group, 2.69 kg above the next one. For a counter currently carrying a kettle, a filter jug and a water bottle, one gooseneck doing all of it is the entire argument.

What does the 100°C spout temperature mean in daily use?

A true 100°C at the spout is the one thing this tap does that its rivals cannot. The nearest competitor, an InSinkErator dispenser, tops out at 210°F, which is 98.9°C, and the Ellsi and YAMATARO kits stop at 98°C. On tea, coffee and sterilising baby bottles, those last two degrees are the difference between water that has boiled and water that is only very hot.

Cost per function shows the rest of the picture. £620 spread across four outputs, boiling, filtered cold, mains hot and mains cold, works out at £155 each, against £133.33 per output for the £400 QETTLE 3-in-1 and £84.75 for the four on the £339 YAMATARO 4 in 1 Boiling Tap. You are paying for the temperature, not for the number of jobs.

What comes in the box and how does it fit?

You get one deck-mounted body in chrome over stainless steel, a single centre handle that arrives as a separate piece to fit, and a gooseneck spout standing 228 mm above the worktop. That clearance fills a stockpot or a tall jug without tipping either one. The tap takes one hole, the same hole your mixer uses, so nothing new is cut in the deck.

It is electric, so budget a power feed under the counter beside the water connection. The unit weighs 12.1 kg, and holding that upright while the tails are tightened underneath is a two-person job rather than a one-person one. The cold output is filtered, which means an under-sink filter and its housing take up part of that cabinet, so measure before you commit the space. Chrome wipes clean easily but will show dried droplets if you leave them sitting on it.

Where does the QETTLE 4-in-1 Boiling Water Tap fall short?

The £220 gap to the QETTLE 3-in-1 is the first thing to weigh. Both boil at 100°C, both take one hole, both fit on the same deck, and filtered cold water is the only difference. For a household that drinks ordinary tap water, that £220 buys nothing at all.

At 12.1 kg this is the heaviest tap in the group, 2.69 kg above the next heaviest, which matters on the day it goes in and again if it ever comes out. All four outputs run through one centre lever, so you learn a sequence rather than reaching for a second control, and the chrome finish will show every dried droplet on a bright morning.

How does it compare with the QETTLE 3-in-1 and the YAMATARO 4 in 1 Boiling Tap?

The QETTLE 3-in-1 at £400 is £220 cheaper and boils at the same 100°C, which makes it the better buy for anyone who does not want filtered cold water at the sink. It does the same job on a cup of tea, fits the same single hole, and leaves £220 for cartridges and the fitter. Choose this tap over it only if the fourth output is used daily.

The YAMATARO 4 in 1 Boiling Tap at £339 undercuts this one by £281 and brings a 2.5-litre boiler, quoted for 7 to 10 cups at a time. It stops at 98°C and carries 49 ratings at 3.9 against 683 at 4.4, which is the honest trade: more water per boil and a lower entry price, against the last two degrees of heat and a far deeper record of owners. Buy the YAMATARO when capacity matters more than a true boil.