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   MarkH | Mar 03, 2007 01:50pm | #1

   You better have instant hot water because you can't run the water till it gets hot. Well unless you want to tote the water to the sink, which would be a bit silly.

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   Jer | Mar 03, 2007 02:17pm | #2

   We ran the hot supply to it the last one we put in. It's a good question and makes sense to me to do what we did.

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   HammerHarry | Mar 03, 2007 02:17pm | #3

   Pot fillers are for filling pots to cook with.

   Cooks always start with cold water.

   Therefore, pot fillers are cold water.

    

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   BossHog | Mar 04, 2007 04:18pm | #10

   "Cooks always start with cold water."

   This cook doesn't. I think it's ridiculous to put cold water on a stove to heat up. Why waste the time?
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   HammerHarry | Mar 04, 2007 06:04pm | #12

   I cook with cold water because I was taught to do it that way, and I find the food tastes better.  Your mileage may differ.  Do what you prefer.  As the water is heated in the hw heater, the oxygen is driven out of it.  When a pot is boiled on the stove, the oxygen bubbles out as it heats and boils, which, I find, makes it cook better and the food taste better.

   Feel free to do as you see fit.  I was simply stating what I have learned over the years from many good cooks.  Feel free to take offense or not.

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   xxPaulCPxx | Mar 05, 2007 10:52am | #14

   I agree.  I think the "habit" of using cold water came from the old fear of lead in the pipes leaching out.Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA

   Also a CRX fanatic!

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   jhausch | Mar 03, 2007 05:25pm | #4

   agree with other poster.  You'd need instantaneious hot water and the ability to lever on the filler at the exact point for the temp desired.  If you have to fiddle with the adjustment to get the desired temp, do you then take the not proper temp water to the sink and pour it out?

   Now, I suppose if you have one of those big commercial wok stoves, you can just let the water run since they have a built in drain. . . .

    

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   MisterT | Mar 04, 2007 04:23am | #5

   the stove is more efficient at heating water than the hot water heater???

   you run 3 gallons of water out of the HWH to get a pot ful of hot water???

   Then you still got to heat it to boiling...

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   andybuildz | Mar 04, 2007 08:25am | #8

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   MisterT | Mar 04, 2007 03:37pm | #9

   YA know when I saw POT in the thread title, I had to resist bringing you up!!!
   and ya dun jumped in on yer own!!!One pill makes you larger
   And one pill makes you small
   And the ones that mother gives you
   Don't do anything at all
   Go ask Alice
   When she's ten feet tallAnd if you go chasing rabbits
   And you know you're going to fall
   Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
   Has given you the call
   Recall Alice
   When she was just smallWhen men on the chessboard
   Get up and tell you where to go
   And you've just had some kind of mushroom
   And your mind is moving low
   Go ask Alice
   I think she'll knowWhen logic and proportion
   Have fallen softly dead
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   Jeff_Clarke | Mar 05, 2007 10:06am | #13

   So you're saying in any case to use pipe dope?  ;o)Jeff

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   BUIC | Mar 04, 2007 07:37am | #6

    Because hot water tends to have more mineral in it.

     Same reason coffee should be made with cold tap water, better taste...buic 

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   plumbbill | Mar 04, 2007 08:16am | #7

   I have done more dual control pot fillers than single connection ones.

   Wall mount single tap is more in the residential line cause of looks.

   Double tap wall mount is pretty popular in the commercial kitchens that I have done.

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   rich1 | Mar 04, 2007 05:59pm | #11

   If there is a water softner, all the hot water is softened.  The cold to the kitchen may or may not be softened, depending on how much extra was spent on the system.

   Lots of people don't want to drink or cook with softened water.