‘What I wish I had known before buying a boiling water tap’ reveals a kitchen design expert

Boiling water tap with marble backsplash and grey quartz worktops to support a guide on what you need to know before buying a boiling water tap.

Boiling water taps have stormed the kitchen industry in recent years. Heralded as the best kitchen invention since the dishwasher – once you’ve installed a boiling water tap, I can promise you’ll never go back to a kettle again. 

I finally bought my first boiling water tap when we installed our most recent kitchen in 2022, but I’ve been writing about them since the early ‘90s. As an interiors journalist specialising in kitchen trends, I’d heard so much hype from kitchen designers, manufacturers and readers alike over the years that I just had to get onboard.