Mixers, rinsers, boilers, hoses, the kitchen tap is no longer just one thing

Grabbing all the vertical attention, the kitchen tap is the lead act in and around your kitchen sink.

You can pay anything from €30 for a quiet low-rise mixer to over €1,200 for the latest, articulated, top-branded beauties. Going beyond a happy conduit in a U, C or L shaped spout, there’s a world of new tap aesthetics and performance on offer as bathroom and kitchen faucets continue to hybrid.

Rinser taps have been a staple of the commercial kitchen for three quarters of a century. Pulled down into service, drawn up and out of the tap housing or counter, 360° rinsers can tackle the farthest corner of the filthiest pan while a standard, fixed tap makes a sad arc of half the bowl. With industrial credentials written large, rinsers have bloomed up from weedy 1970s hoses into scratch resistant chrome plated or stainless steel muscle men.