{"id":42,"date":"2007-04-04T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consumermaven.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/04\/instant-hot-water-filter-insinkerator-hc1100\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:02:23","slug":"instant-hot-water-filter-insinkerator-hc1100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2007\/04\/instant-hot-water-filter-insinkerator-hc1100\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant-Hot Water Filter: InSinkErator HC1100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us find it hard to imagine living without hot-and-cold running water.\u00a0 Well I can’t imagine why anyone would want to live without filtered instant-hot and cold water in their kitchen.\u00a0 And the only solution I have found that combines a cartridge filter with an instant-hot through a single fixture is the $500 InSinkErator HC1100 system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This system is actually\u00a0two separate components: a $300 faucet<\/a>, and a $200 filter and heater-tank assembly<\/a> that mounts under the sink.\u00a0 Now I’m not generally prone to spend $300 on a plumbing fixture, but this one is worth it for its peerless\u00a0convenience.\u00a0 The faucet has two handles: the cold handle (which can lock on) delivers a full-pressure flow of filtered water; the hot handle delivers a low-pressure stream of filtered water heated up to 200 degrees F.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t lived with an instant-hot fixture you probably can’t imagine just how useful it can be:\u00a0 We use ours not only for tea, but also to make\u00a0cup-of-noodles and instant oatmeal — truly in an instant!\u00a0 We save time cooking by adding\u00a0nearly-boiling (and filtered) water to pots.\u00a0\u00a0Bullion or corn starch dissolves much faster in the superhot water.<\/p>\n

The cartridge filters are a cinch to change: The in-line adaptor is self-sealing, so you just twist out the old one and twist in a new one without having to shut any valves.\u00a0 I have been getting\u00a010-12 months of use out of the $40 F-501R cartridges<\/a> before I notice a tap water taste returning.<\/p>\n

The system is backed by InSinkErator’s oustanding in-home-service warranty.<\/p>\n

2010 Update<\/b>: The new enhanced filters are designated F-601R; F-501R cartridges are no longer made.<\/p>\n

Apparently the faucet is only good for a few years before the shut-off springs start to stick<\/a>. InSinkErator has extended the faucet warranty for new purchase to 5 years, but after that I would expect the handles to start to stick open — as mine did a few years ago. At that point InSinkErator suggests the entire $250 faucet needs to be replaced. However, I and others have successfully restored functionality when this happens by spraying water-proof lubricants into the handle bases and working the handles back and forth to free the springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us find it hard to imagine living without hot-and-cold running water.\u00a0 Well I can’t imagine why anyone would want to live without filtered instant-hot and cold water in their kitchen.\u00a0 And the only solution I have found that combines a cartridge filter with an instant-hot through a single fixture is the $500 InSinkErator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}