{"id":11489,"date":"2013-01-11T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:04:26","slug":"boiling-water-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11489","title":{"rendered":"Boiling Water On Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"694\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 694px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 694\/694;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.quooker.co.uk\/media\/wysiwyg\/3\/_\/3.1_flex_rvs_dkdak.png\" alt=\"tap\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><a href=\"http:\/\/_wp_link_placeholder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Quooker website\">How on earth did this get by Health &amp; Safety?<\/a> It\u2019s an accident waiting to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of me says it\u2019s a great idea, but when I saw it on TV just now the other part of me said bloody hell, that looks lethal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What it is is a worktop mounted tap which produces instant boiling water. We\u2019re not just talking about <strong>hot<\/strong> water &#8211; this is the full 100\u00b0C stuff. <strong>Real<\/strong> boiling water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one in the video has no sink under it, so I\u2019m trying not to think of what would happen if you accidentally turned it on and hot water was blasted onto the surface and splashed down your front and legs. Or if a child &#8211; fascinated by the noise &#8211; climbed up to turn it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Quooker website calls it \u201cultra-safe\u201d, but I can\u2019t see any signs (or data on the site) which indicate any kind of fail-safe mechanism being fitted. I could be wrong, but it is just a tap which provides boiling water under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what they\u2019ll think of next. Above door heater curtains like you get in big stores using actual flames?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How on earth did this get by Health &amp; Safety? It\u2019s an accident waiting to happen. Part of me says it\u2019s a great idea, but when I saw it on TV just now the other part of me said bloody hell, that looks lethal. What it is is a worktop mounted tap which produces instant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93,102,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-related","category-general-related","category-movie-tv-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}