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In the office, the ritual of drinking tea or coffee is not only a luxury for officially lazing around, but also a way to relieve physical or intellectual stress, and even a way to spur your brain to quickly solve some complex problem, to conduct a powerful brainstorming about the problem that has arisen.

To do this, you can buy an electric kettle for the office, or you can buy a water cooler. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of these solutions.

What is better: an electric kettle or a water cooler?

1. Price issue. In terms of purchase price, an electric kettle clearly outperforms the purchase of a cooler. Even a very expensive kettle model will be cheaper than buying a cooler. However, one should also take into account the fact that during operation the electric kettle will constantly consume electricity. And the larger the team, the greater the electricity consumption and, by the way, the greater the load on the electric kettle and, accordingly, the likelihood of its breakdown increases.

2. Ease of use. But in this matter, the cooler clearly beats the operation of an electric kettle. The cooler was originally designed for intensive use in a large team. It does not need to be constantly refilled with water, like a kettle; water is supplied to the cooler in large 19-liter bottles. Moreover, this water is delivered for a very reasonable fee by specialized companies.

And, by the way, bottled water is at least less harmful to our health than tap water. And boiling cannot eliminate this harm. And if the tap water is very hard, then during the boiling process, solid scale settles on the heating element of the kettle, which accelerates the breakdown of the electric heating device.

Thus, although a cooler is more expensive than an electric kettle, during operation it turns out to be more convenient, and the water in it is beneficial for our health.

3. Efficiency of use. At this point, we wanted to consider how an electric kettle and a cooler affect the work process in the office. So, the employee decided to drink coffee or tea. To do this, he must go to the electric kettle, check the amount of water and, if there is little water, go to the nearest source of tap water (and it is usually located in the kitchen, at the end of the corridor, if we are talking about office centers), fill the kettle, return to the office, turn on the kettle, wait until the kettle boils, and only then brew tea or coffee.

In total, 10-15 minutes of working time was spent. And this is not an isolated case. Therefore, even if you have a dozen employees working in your office, the kettle will cost you several man-hours in just one working day.

With a cooler everything is much simpler. Your employee approaches him, presses the lever and hot water pours into his glass. That's it, tea or coffee is brewed. Temporary losses – no more than one minute!

So it turns out that, although the cooler has a higher selling price, it will save you many man-hours that your employees would simply spend going to the kitchen to fill the kettle with water.

In the office, the ritual of drinking tea or coffee is not only a luxury for official idleness, but also a way to relieve physical or intellectual stress

The modern world lives by its own rules and principles - it is high-tech and aimed at providing users with more and more modern and progressive advanced solutions. It would seem that electric kettles appeared quite recently, but they have already practically given the palm to coolers. We will talk further about the advantages of the latter over the former.

Boiling is an old and far from perfect method of water treatment. It has the right to exist, but does not allow obtaining high-quality purified water. A much more modern, progressive solution is to use a cooler - it saves time, guarantees maximum quality of the water used and, accordingly, the user’s health. The cooler is superior to electric kettles in most respects - water quality, time saving, and safety of use. However, for those people who care about health (both their own and those of loved ones), there is no question of what to choose - a cooler or a kettle. After all, they know very well that there can only be one correct answer to this question.

Coolers work much faster than teapots - you press a lever or button, and heated water at the desired temperature is already in your glass. In the case of a kettle, everything is a little more complicated - you need to turn it on, wait until it boils, and then spend time letting the water cool down. Another thing is a cooler, from which the water turns out to be tasty, at exactly the right temperature and “here and now.” The design of the device looks attractive, thanks to which this technique fits harmoniously into any modern interior. The cooler takes up very little space, helps save electricity and simply makes your life comfortable, “healthy” and modern.

Today, a water cooler can be found in almost any modern office. From a technical point of view, they are in many ways superior to conventional electric kettles, allowing you to save water. If a regular cooler consumes approximately 0.5-0.7 kW in one day, then a 1.5 liter kettle consumes twice as much. How are such savings achieved? The thing is that coolers use a smart heating system - they get hot, turn off, and so on in a circle. The process is controlled by a sensor built into the device.

The cooler is highly ergonomic - the standard model is intended for installation on the floor and is suitable for both heating and cooling water supplied from a cylinder. In addition to ease of use, you can also add concern for the health of customers - the water used in coolers is purified to such an extent that it can be used without boiling without any problems. This means that the beneficial properties and taste of the water will be preserved as much as possible. Some devices are equipped with additional useful functions such as ozonation, which conventional electric kettles cannot offer purely technically. If you have children or elderly people at home, pay attention to a cooler with hot water supply protection. The most important thing is that among a wide range of solutions you will find one that suits you 100%. The cooler is an ideal solution to the issue of water treatment and providing your family with a sufficient amount of purified drinking water. The cost of a device can be in a wide range (it depends on the model, manufacturer, functionality, performance and other parameters). The market offers economy-class devices and “sophisticated” models that can do everything and even more. All you have to do is choose - you want

To buy or not to buy a water cooler? I asked myself this question a hundred times. Why do I need it? After all, there is a kettle, and the cooler will constantly burn energy, maintaining the temperature of the hot water. And it takes up much more space than a teapot. And if you buy a water cooler, what model, what should you pay attention to... There were a lot of questions. And then one fine day I made up my mind. Three months have passed since purchasing the cooler. The period is sufficient to write a review and draw some conclusions. In my humble opinion, a water cooler is one of those things that you can live without. But having tried the device in action, we soon wondered how we managed without it before!

Water cooler in my house. How it all began

I would like to immediately apologize for the fact that the article will most likely turn out to be more philosophical than we would like. I did not research many models, nor did I understand the technical details of these devices. Just one day I read about a promotion: Buy 30 bottles of water and get a cooler for free. It was late autumn. Since in winter I put my car to hibernate in the garage and, therefore, do not go to the spring for water, I had to drink purchased bottled water all winter. And if so, then why not take part in the action organized by the Vodovozoff company.

Looking ahead a little, I will say that we never took all thirty bottles from her due to the rudeness of the receptionist in the store. But we still have the water cooler, probably as compensation for moral damages. When I received the coveted cooler, it immediately became clear that it was not new. As they explained to me, it was a device that had been working for a long time in some office, but it broke down, and then, after repair, it was supposed to be given to a lucky participant in the action. The mood immediately dropped. I was counting on a new unit. But the car turned out to be in good condition, serviceable and was offered for free.

And I decided: why not take it? At least to understand whether I even need a water cooler at home, or is it still more of a device for offices.

If it weren’t for this promotion, we would probably still be using a simple electric kettle. After all, there are various rumors about water coolers (by the way, they are also called dispensers). Some say coolers:

• spend a lot of energy on constant heating of water,
• they allow you to use only purchased water, which is brought in bottles; you can’t bring it from a spring,
• they begin to leak and can cause a flood at home,
• make a lot of noise
• may catch fire
• over time they become a breeding ground for infection,
• can scald a child's hand,

Agree, these are not very rosy pictures. Moreover, we actually have a child under two years old who is always trying to twirl something.

And paying from 3 to 10 thousand (maybe there are even more expensive models) somehow didn’t sit well with us.

However, as I wrote earlier, if it weren’t for the promotion, there would be no cooler, and this article would not exist. But that day everything happened and now I, satisfied, was already dragging the booty home. Why drag? So he, the bastard, also ended up with a cooling system. That is, like a refrigerator, it has a motor and a radiator grille at the back. I didn’t even know about this, I thought coolers only heated water (and wondered why they were called coolers?). So I had to puff.

But now the device has been delivered, installed, and you can begin to inspect and reason about “where you were lucky and where you were unlucky.”

What types of water coolers are there?

So, before describing our specific model, I want to say that coolers are available as floor or tabletop. In my humble opinion, floor-standing ones are better, because they stand aside and don’t bother anyone. If the cooler were desktop, you would have to free up part of the table or create a special cabinet. The only advantage of tabletop placement is that it is inaccessible to small children. If a curious child climbs under the tap with his own hands, water at a temperature of 96 degrees can cause a serious burn. So while the children are small, the tabletop option may seem more acceptable.

But keep in mind that your table must support not only the weight of the cooler itself, but also the 19-liter water bottle you place on it. So a decorative flimsy table is clearly not suitable here. Just imagine what would happen if all this bandura fell onto the floor from the table. It’s even more interesting if this happens in your absence.

Next there is coolers with cooling and heating or heated only. Our device turned out to have both. Unfortunately, while the heating can be turned off (there is a special switch), the cooling cannot be turned off at all. This is very bad, since chilled water is practically not needed in winter, but you will have to pay extra money (for electricity) to cool it. In fact, such a cooler works like a kettle and a refrigerator at the same time. It sounds a lot like a refrigerator because it turns on and off periodically to keep the cold water cold.

There are even coolers with a cabinet that works like a mini-fridge. That is, you can keep bottles of drinks there so that they are cool at the right time and do not clutter up the main refrigerator. This is really convenient, especially in the summer heat, when you just want to get a sore throat by swallowing a can of cold Pepsi-Cola.

The most expensive household cooler that I was able to find on the Internet costs more than 16 thousand rubles. It is very nice to look at, has a built-in refrigerator, compressor cooling, the ability to adjust the water temperature and other nice features.

There are coolers with bottom loading bottles. This means you don't have to strain to place the bottle on top. You simply open the cooler door and place the bottle there.

If I were buying a new water cooler now, I would choose the option without cooling. It is cheaper, will burn less energy, and will be quieter. This is important because our cooler has a compressor cooling system, like a regular refrigerator. It's not that it creates a lot of noise, but still silence in the house is a very valuable asset. Especially at night, when in silence all noises are heard much better. If the presence of cooling is fundamentally important for you, then before purchasing, check whether this cooling can be turned off somehow. Otherwise, in the cold season you will pay for what you will not use.

Also pay attention to how you need to pour water into a cup. There are coolers where the water supply lever is operated directly by placing a cup. This means that the process of filling the cup with water can be done with one hand. It's comfortable.

Other models require you to press a button located at the top of the faucet. In this case, you will hold the cup with one hand and press the button with the other. And all this - bent at a certain angle, if the cooler is floor-standing or installed low.

And finally, I’ll say that coolers come in very different designs. Here, decide for yourself how beautiful this thing will be in your kitchen.

Getting started with the cooler

Any cooler, new, used, or repaired, must be washed. The containers that are inside may contain dust, some foreign particles, and finally, insects that got inside but could not get out. One of my friends told me that when flushing a cooler received from repair, water with a dead spider poured out of the “hot” tap.

You will have to rinse the cooler with good water from a bottle. At one time I was greedy - I washed it with tap water. Shouldn't have done this. Then I had to drink water that tasted like tap water until new bottled spring water filled the containers. So sacrifice about half of the first bottle to flush the system.

Impressions of the cooler's operation

You know, there are things that you can completely do without. A cooler for drinking water in the house is also not an essential item. We lived without him for many years and could have continued to live.

However, after trying to use the device once, we realized that we would no longer be able to refuse it. This is very convenient: at any time you approach it with a mug, press the desired lever and you can immediately brew tea or coffee, prepare broth, fill a pan with hot water to cook something, etc.

This is much more convenient and faster than pouring water into a kettle, putting it to boil, listening to its loud noise (I don’t know about you, but for some reason our kettle makes a lot of noise when it boils water). If you forget and overheat the water, you will have to wait until it cools down. If you have a lot of guests and everyone decides to drink tea at the same time, you will have to boil the water several times, forcing one of the guests to wait for their portion of the drink.

I would like to write separately about one case when the cooler really helped us out. One night our electricity suddenly went out. Everything would have been fine, but the child woke up at three in the morning and began to demand his usual food - milk in a bottle. There was milk in the refrigerator. How to warm it up? Electric stove, electric microwave, no hot water in the tap (the pump is also electric).

And then I thought that the water in the hot tank of the cooler most likely had not yet cooled down. I tried to pour water into the saucepan - it really turned out to be almost boiling water. In this water I heated milk from the refrigerator, pouring it into a bottle. I can’t imagine how it would have ended if it weren’t for the cooler!

In a word, we got very used to the device and did not regret that we had purchased it at the time.

Another feature was discovered already during operation. It turns out that you can remove a bottle from the device that still has water in it, and it (the water) will not spill. The design of the cooler ensures that the small polyethylene cap located in the bottle cap remains at the end of the rod when the bottle is installed on the cooler. When the bottle is removed, the cork returns to its place - in its hole in the bottle cap. This is very successful. Sometimes, when I have to leave for the whole day, I put a new bottle on the cooler to replace the one that has very little water left, so that in my absence my wife does not have to carry a heavy 20-liter bottle herself when the water runs out.

Disadvantages of a water cooler

I wrote the word "disadvantages" in the plural, although the device has only one important drawback. The rest can be easily tolerated.

The problem is that the hot water in the cooler does not reach boiling temperature. From a technical point of view, this is quite justified, but using such water for preparing, for example, baby food is very undesirable. And drinking unboiled water yourself, taken from an unreliable supplier, is quite a risky business. It’s not an hour before you pick up some stick that didn’t die at a temperature of 96 degrees.

Other reasons for dissatisfaction with the device that I sometimes hear: expensive, takes up a lot of space, difficult to lift the bottle, etc. - I think they are simple excuses. If you don't want to have a cooler at home, no one is forcing you. You decide.

How much energy does the cooler consume?

I am often asked how much energy a cooler consumes. There is a well-known opinion that a lot of electricity is spent on constantly maintaining the temperature of hot water. Because of this, many people refuse to use a cooler at home and it is completely in vain.

On the one hand, it may indeed seem that the cooler consumes a lot of energy. The documentation says that it spends 500 watts per hour on heating. It's like turning on five bright hundred-watt lamps. If we take the cost of a kilowatt hour as 2.7 rubles (this is the average price for example), then the cooler will burn 1 ruble per hour. 35 kopecks.

If you multiply this by 24 hours and 30 days in a month, you get 972 rubles! If, God forbid, your cooler also cools water, then this amount becomes even more significant. It is after such calculations that people abandon coolers. In fact, everything is not so scary, the main thing is to understand how it actually works.

Yes, indeed, the cooler spends a lot of energy on the initial heating of water. However, having brought it to the desired temperature, it turns off and is in standby mode. The sensor in the “hot tank” initiates the heater to turn on again when the water cools down a little or some of the hot water is drained, and cold water from the bottle comes in its place. So the heating element of the cooler does not work constantly, so you may not even notice a special increase in your electricity bill.

Conclusion

With the advent of a cooler in our home, we began to spend less time on meals and intermediate tea parties. The situation when you can immediately pour yourself a cup of hot water, mix it with cold water in the right proportion, and brew, for example, coffee turned out to be very convenient. Now you can drink tea at any time, without waiting for the good old kettle to boil the water.

We didn't fire the kettle at all. It regularly boils water for the child, since in the cooler the water is not brought to a temperature of 100 degrees. But this doesn't happen often. We appreciated the convenience of the cooler when we ran out of bottled water and had to buy it again in the store in five-liter bottles. Then we started using the kettle again and felt... that it was not as convenient and fast as we had previously thought. The cooler still makes life a lot easier.

Therefore, if you are still wondering whether to buy (or rent) a cooler, don’t hesitate. This is a worthwhile thing! We liked!

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Main functions

Cooling type

The most effective are coolers with compressor cooling (2-3 l/h, 5-10 °C). Moreover, they are usually more well assembled - more metal (depending on the manufacturer). Coolers with electronic cooling are cheaper. They have a lower cold water capacity (1 l/h, 10-15 °C). There are models with a double electric block. cooling, which increases these figures to 2 l/h (10-15 °C). In addition, el. cooling has a limitation: at an ambient temperature of 25-28 °C and above, the water in your device will not be cooled. Those. It may turn out that during the hottest season (July-August) you will be left without cold/cool water. If there is low cold consumption in your home or office. water, an air conditioner is installed and the water is used mainly for making tea or coffee, and not for drinking*, then you can safely choose a cooler with electric power. cooling.

Warning:
1) Models with electric cool must be used indoors at temp. from +10 to +25. At higher temperatures, the Peltier element responsible for heat exchange will turn off (with frequent shutdowns and overheating, it may fail).
2) El.cool. often over time it operates noisier than a compressor.- Due to fan wear and longer time to reach the set temperature.

Bottom compartment

The classic one is a compressor cooler without a cabinet with heating and cooling.

Models with locker will give you additional space to store dishes, sugar and other non-perishable foods and items.

With ozonizer cabinet: Typically have a 5, 10, or 15 minute timer on the side that activates a small device that produces ozone. The latter kills bacteria in the closed volume of the cabinet, thereby disinfecting its contents.

With refrigerator: have the ability to cool and store perishable products (milk, cream, cakes). It should be borne in mind that such models do not replace a full-fledged refrigerator, and if the refrigerator is heavily loaded and/or the ambient temperature is high, the cooling in it may disappear. In most cases, this option is the optimal solution for a small office.

With bottom loading bottle: new in recent years. The problem with lifting the bottle and its placement in the cooler body is solved.

With water carbonation: These are devices that, in addition to their standard functions of heating and cooling, allow you to produce carbonated water. They have a built-in carbonation unit with connection to a CO2 cylinder. The cylinder can be changed in the future by our company’s service department.

Peculiarities

Self-cleaning function

Performance

Typical hot water output: 5 liters per hour. For particularly powerful ones, 8-12 l/hour.
Typical cold water performance for a compressor-cooled cooler: 3 liters per hour with high performance from 5C° and stable at any ambient temperature.
Typical cold water output for a cooler with electronic cooling: 1 liter per hour, but not lower than 10C° and provided that the ambient temperature is not higher than 26-28C°
Typical cold water output for a cooler with a Double Electronic Cooling Unit: 2 liters per hour under the same conditions.

Case Color/Material

Insert Color/Material

Display

Energy Saving Display, as a rule, not only shows the temperature of hot and cold water, but also allows you to set its minimum and maximum values. You can also adjust the time the device turns off and on by day and hour. This function is also called ENERGY SAVING because... allows you to save on electricity by turning off the device during non-working hours.
The display is informative- as a rule, it simply shows the time or temperature of the mountains. or cold water. In some cases, it is possible to regulate the temperature of the mountains. and cold water.

Type of taps

Child lock

If there are children in the area where the cooler is used, we recommend using the “With protection” option. The latter is placed on the hot water tap to protect the child from burns (the tap is blocked). In any case, we know how to install protection on many devices or, on the contrary, remove it for greater convenience. Ask the managers for a package that is convenient for you.

Leak protection

If a microcrack appears in the bottle during transportation to you, water will inevitably leak out. You will notice this when a puddle appears under the cooler.
Coolers with protection against leaks have a special composite water intake socket, which in 90% of cases effectively blocks the spillage of water due to microcracks. Such protection, as a rule, is available in classic compressor models of the “H” series (H1-L, H1-LF, etc.) and more expensive coolers with compressor cooling.

Availability of 3rd tap

An electric kettle was a favorite gift for our mothers and grandmothers. The harsh time of scarcity they experienced gave them the opportunity to rejoice even at this modest gift. When, to brew tea, you used to need to put the kettle on a gas stove and wait 10 minutes for it to boil, then an electric kettle at first was perceived as a "miracle". One or two minutes and the water boils!

However, with the development of high technology, people have ceased to enjoy this significant saving in time for brewing tea. Especially in the office, when work is in full swing, and sometimes it is impossible to find even a minute of free time for tea. Two minutes already seemed too long, and we wanted something more.

Marketers “picked up” this need in time and offered the consumer a radically new solution. Why even wait for the water to boil? It’s much better when boiling water is always at hand 24 hours a day. And it would be even better if there was always cold water along with boiling water. It was this need that prompted marketers, together with engineers, to develop such a device as.

Water cooler (dispenser) is a device for heating and cooling drinking water. More precisely, the cooler does not just heat and cool water, it is designed to maintain the water temperature at the required level.

Why is a cooler better than a kettle?

Saving electricity. The water cooler only consumes electricity when the water temperature drops below 92-95 degrees. The rest of the time, when the water is heated and stays above this level, it does not consume energy. The same goes for cooling.

Preservation of beneficial properties of water. As you know, when water boils, along with harmful bacteria, beneficial microorganisms necessary for the normal functioning of the body also die. Since it is already initially healthy and safe, and the cooler does not boil it, the water retains all its beneficial properties, including oxygen.

Save time. Hot or cold water is always at hand. Some coolers are also equipped with a “turbo heating” mode, which allows you to heat water in a matter of seconds.

Safety. All water coolers are equipped with convenient water taps or buttons, which significantly reduce the risk of spilling or scalding water. Many coolers are equipped with a “child safety button” that is pressed to dispense hot water only when an additional action is taken.

Functionality. Many coolers have the function of adjusting the temperature of heating and cooling water. There are also models that can be programmed to turn on and off at set intervals to save energy.

But the most important quality of a cooler is its simplicity and convenience. Even children can handle it, which is why they have become so popular in schools and kindergartens.

You can purchase the water cooler that best suits you based on your preferences in size, design, functionality, power and additional useful features.