Tefal Quick Cup Review

Good Points
It does produce a cup of relatively hot water easier than using a kettle

Bad Points
It's messy, noisy and badly designed in my eyes.

General Comments
I think the Tefal Quick Cup is a classic case of a product not living up to its hype. It's *almost* a great product, but very badly designed. When I first got mine, it spurted and spluttered so badly, you either had to hold the cup up next to the nozzle or start it, stand well back to avoid being splashed, and wipe up the bench after each use. The distributor sent me a differently designed nozzlewhich did alleviate the splashing somewhat, but the operation is still nowhere near what is shown in advertisements.

In Australia and New Zealand it's marketed with the implied claim that it will give you a cup of hot water in 3 seconds. When I called the distributors they indignantly told me they never claimed to produce a whole cup in seconds, only that it would "give you hot water in 3 seconds" Yeah right. You can have a cup of coffee in 3 seconds, as long as it's in a thimble. My mug takes anywhere between 30~50 seconds to fill.

As to the claim of energy efficiency, I can't be sure. It occurs to me that the financial and energy costs of producing and continually replacing a small dedicated throwaway filter would probably far outweigh any savings in power..

Overall, in my opinion this is a real disappointment. A possibly great product but so poorly executed that it's really not worth the money. Maybe the next model fix will the shortcomings.