For years, I mentally filed boiling water taps under ‘nice but a bit bougie’. It's giving Princess vibes. I mean, how hard is it to boil a kettle? Kettles are inexpensive and inoffensive (especially cordless models), and they’ve powered my family’s tea addiction for generations without complaint.
As someone who has written about kitchens for most of her career, I’d heard the boiling water tap hype many times. When they first hit the domestic kitchen scene in the early ‘90s, my designer friends were obsessed and treated them like the Holy Grail. But, to me, it still felt like the sort of upgrade you only appreciated if you were already deep into luxury kitchen territory, with the budget to boot. I couldn’t relate (or afford).
