Kitchen sink faucet use question — who is to blame: Person 1 or Person 2?

In America faucets have a Hot water line and a cold water line. So this is not an issue.

Do you stand beneath the shower then turn it on. Or turn it on and then stand beneath.

Huh? This is an American question predominantly..

Blame the idiot that sets the hot water tank on parboil.

It's BS anyway because there's not enough hot water stored in the faucet to burn anything. Nobody runs cold water to cool off the faucet after using hot water, nobody.

If this is an issue for You, then you have much bigger issues you probably should tackle first before attempting to wash your hands.

Person 2 is 100% to blame.

But in the case of a shower, no one uses it for super hot purposes (like dishes), so the potential of being injured is not a variable in that comparison.

There is in my house... (enough hot water to scald)

Ain't buying it. Turn the frikken water tank down, jeez.

Our water goes up to 140 degrees F and could burn if not careful

We like our riches rinsed HOT

Get a MIXING VALVE that prevents all hot or all cold water to come out the faucet - new houses have had them for decades

Turn your hot water heater temperature down to 120 to prevent burns - and especially if children will use the faucets or bath water

The person 1 had no obligation to turn water indicator to cold

The person 2 should have swiped his finger through the stream to TEST the temperature before putting whole hand in

An unfortunate accident occurred when an unlucky coincidence where two people turned water faucet on in quick succession

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN !!!

Prevention is the duty of BOTH people - person one could have turned the temp dial down
Person 2 could have checked the temperature before exposing hands

If you want sanitized dishes and clothes, it needs to be hot.

Think of the money you'll save by not keeping 40 gallons boiling 24/7 if turn the tank temp down.

I have hot water, but it can't burn me, and my dishes and clothes are still clean. Not to mention the clothes can last longer when they aren't boiled to death.

It would need to be boiling to kill germs. The whole point of washing dishes with dish soap to to get the germs to slide off of the dishes, not to kill them.

OP is an idiot.

If you have kids, you should lower the tank temp. I used to keep it cranked up, until my youngest got burned in the shower. That was 30 years ago and it's never been a problem with the lower temp setting.

Cost me about $16 month to heat water. Next time around I'm going with a tankless heater.

OP has an autoclave for a kitchen sink.

Pipe it outside and steam clean bulldozers for extra cash!

It essentially at boil levels...and hotter water is always better where possible, brightbulb.

If it happened more than once, person 2 is a very slow learner.

YOUR water heater shouldn't be set for more than 140F, which is scalding, but 120 is plenty for most applications like hand washing and showering (no, you don't shower in 120F water, you mix with the cool anyways so 140 is crazy excessive to maintain money wise).

Some dishwashers have their own heating element, clothes don't need scalding, they can get high heat in the dryer anyway.

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Did I remember that link? Here it is again, your last comment tells me you need to read something from an "expert" with common sense.

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I just checked the temp at the kitchen faucet just like they said in the article.

We got a new water heater a couple years ago and there was a few months of playing with the temp control to get it just right so nobody gets hurt, not too cool, everything gets clean and we're not unnecessarily burning gas to keep 40 gallons HOT.

The temp at the faucet was 113 F.

The same “experts” design washing machines that use next-to-no water. And dishwashing machines suck just as bad. Therefore, the hotter the temp, the cleaner the dishes and clothes. I’ve seen it for 20 years. They’re full of shit.

There's an old saying ... You can lead a horse to water, but he can still die of thirst!

OP must be person 1. It's really hard to type with scalded fingers.

Person 1.


I am considerate of the next person to use the sink (even if it's me again). I run the cold a few seconds after I run straight hot to fill the sink to soak the dishes.

Person 2 is to blame for assuming the water would be safe to touch.
When you assume, you make an ass out of both of us.

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Creepy avatar haha

Btw back on topic. Person 2 is wrong and stupid.

Thank you. Funny I was just thinking the same about yours

Probably going to happen again and again if you keep your water so hot. I never heard of such a thing before.

Yep I always check the water tank when I get to a new place. Saves electricity too.

They plump when you cook'em!