High extensions are already perceived as a familiar piece, and the extensions with a wide angle of rotation and retractable watering can become attributes of most models. Today, kitchen faucets are capable of greater. We tell about their functionality.
Photo: Oras.
Most of the cooking processes are connected with water. Therefore, the functionality of the mixer, which we exploit quite intensively, is one of the kitchen comfort indicators. Advisory should include models that combine both mechanical and electronic control. Interesting mixers of instant boiling systems of filtered water, which will allow you to quickly brew tea, coffee, prepare other hot drinks, as well as mixers outstanding mineral chilled water. But in the trend of double-purpose models capable of simultaneously controlling the flows of cold and hot water and in a complex with a filter to provide clean drinking water. They are becoming more and more popular.
All connections for mixers with advanced features - filter, boiling system (boiler) or a cylinder, providing water mineralization, are neatly hidden under the sink.
One such mixer is able to provide you with the usual (hot and cold) and filtered water, for which there is a separate lever: Fontas model with two poles (19 thousand rubles). Photo: Blanko.
Double destination mixer
Until recently, the only way to produce clean drinking water from under the tap was installed under the sink of a stationary filter and the output of separately standing spout. Now, from one kitchen mixer, you can also receive conventional water (cold and hot), and drinking. Thus, the need for additional effluent disappears.
Model A8027 (13 240 rubles). Photo: Wasserkraft.
Constructive types
In the mixers of the first constructive type, both channels are located in the same exaggeration. That is, regular hot and cold water enters the main channel, and the purified drinking water arrives on the second central part of the main part. At the same time, both channels are not connected with each other. Mixing drinking and ordinary water is excluded.
In the models of the second constructive type on the nose of the mixer there are two independent spills. Adjusting flows in mixers and the other type is as follows: on the right is the main lever of water control; Left - lever for filtered water.
Faucets with a boiling function of filtered water, equipped with a boiler connected to the network, alternative to the teapot: Water Dispenser - Tara system mixers. Photo: Dornbracht.
Filter
Double-use mixers are sold complete with filtration equipment. Blanco offers a set in one box with reinforcement, which is suitable for their filters, and for the Barrier filters. The filter resource is designed for 600 liters. There are models calculated on the amount of up to 7500 l - this resource may be enough for about six months at a water consumption of 40 liters per day.
Fans of chilled beverages with bubbles will like the system that allows you to prepare carbonated, weathered or non-carbonated water. Such a system is called Grohe Blue Home. The kitchen mixer includes a filter, a gas cylinder and a carbonizer cooler (under the sink). Photo: Grohe.
Water purification stages
- Usually, the filters have four phases of purification.
- The removal of large particles is the first stage of the complex water purification.
- The passage through an ion exchange filter provides a decrease in the content of lime, particles of heavy metals, reduces the rigidity of water.
- The passage through a filter from activated carbon provides removal of impurities from water, worsening the taste quality of water.
- At this stage, passing through a fine cleaning filter is kept particles of more than 10 microns.
Kettle Mixer
If you wish today, you can get from the crane not only cold water for drinking, but even steep boiling water. The mixer-kettle, in addition to the water purification system, is equipped with a cumulative boiler system connected to the network and can give up from 3 to 6 liters of boiling water at once. This means that you can do without a kettle and brew tea, coffee and other drinks straight with water from under the tap. In the end, hot water is required in any kitchen at least cold, - and not only in order to prepare hot drinks, but also cook eggs, scatter fruits and vegetables, blanch, sterilize children's bottles, clean fat frying frying Highlighting such a mixer will accelerate many cooking processes will save time. After all, you will not have to spend time on boiling water.
A double-dimensional model with two poles Atlas Clear Water (a set for a filter connection is included in the kit, the filtering system is not included in the package) (23 704 rubles). Photo: Franke.
Good mixers-kettles have thermal insulation of the surface, so the probability of burning from touch is excluded. The supply of boiling water is all the same left lever. Pay attention to the models equipped with a Childlock stopper. The water temperature limiter can be useful. Faucets - water boiling systems offer manufacturers such as DORNBRACHT (Water Dispenser), Grohe (Grohe Red), Insinkerator (Aqua Hot 98 °).
Aqua Hot 98 ° system (filter and heating tank with a volume of 2.5 liters are attached (kit - approx. 38 thousand rubles. Photo: Insinkerator
Sensory mixers
How to open and close the mixer when hands are busy or wrapped? How to avoid the need to wash the mixer again and again? It would seem that non-contact sensory mixers - a real find for the kitchen, it is enough to substitute the object or hands to water water. From the point of view of hygiene, non-contact mixers there are no alternatives, they are practical in terms of water saving. But in the kitchen, during cooking we need that warm, then hot, then cold water, so the only mixer with a constant water temperature is irrelevant. In the sensory mixers, it is not so convenient to set the temperature as in ordinary one-art.
The model that allows you to turn on the water using a lever and a light touch of spinning: Minta Touch (with retractable expulsion) (from 33 750 rubles). Photo: Grohe.
Therefore, the manufacturers of kitchen faucets took the symbiosis of mechanics and electronics. And for such models the future. They allow you to turn on and turn off the water both using a mechanical lever, and a light touch of spinning or a button located on it, or just approaching your hands and even touching your feet, which is very convenient. Such mixers are mounted in the same way as ordinary mixers, but at the same time are equipped with a small electronic unit, which is installed under the kitchen sink table and connects to the power grid, to work in the event of an electricity disconnection there is a backup battery.
Such models offer Kludi (EGO), GROHE (Minta and Zerdra Touch), ORAS (Optima 2728F), Jacob Delafon (Sensate).
Contactless control is practicality and in terms of water saving, which is included when you brings your hand to the mixer. Water is pouring a given stream at a given temperature.
Essence FootControl can be controlled by the movement of the leg (40 450 rubles). Photo: Grohe.
How to choose a mixer under the sink
The selection of height, the shape and length of the spinning directly depends on the parameters of the washing. According to the rules, the head of the gland must be inclined or to be directed approximately to the middle of the bowl. Otherwise, you simply reduce the working area of the washing, and the mixer is witness during use you will often have to get to the side so that it does not interfere.
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Professional level model Optima 2738F (24 500 rubles). Photo: Oras.
Model A8037 with two poles, coverage "Light bronze" (13 240 rubles). Photo: Wasserkraft.
One of the important functions of the kitchen mixer is the ability to connect to water purification filters, which eliminates the need to install a separate crane: model 92CR6433 (12 138 rubles). Photo: Paini.
Model SZR1068PO with two nose. Photo: zorg.
Double-destination complementors in elegant retrodism: Old England Clear Water (Bronze coating) (24 255 rub.). Photo: Franke.
Mixer SORA (14 400 rub.). Photo: Blanko.
Carafe mixer (24 500 rubles). Photo: Jacob Delafon
Water Dispenser Lot Mixer. Photo: Dornbracht.
Water Dispenser Meta Mixer. Photo: Dornbracht.
The Optima model with a display to display the temperature and contactless function (51 thousand rubles). Photo: Oras.
SENSATE with double control (34 500 rubles). Photo: Jacob Delafon
The touch control unit of the mixer with Touch Light Pro technology is equipped with modern electronics, which allows programming individual modes. Photo: kwc.
Aleni SWAN has a right "wing" highlighted in red light, warning of high temperature. Photo: Oras.