Zojirushi 586361-CV-DCC40XT America Corporation Ve Hybrid Water Boiler And Warmer, 4-Liter, Stainless Dark Brown
$223
- Hybrid water boiler and warmer. Electrical Rating : 120 Volts and 840 Watts
- 4 keep warm temperature settings (160 Degree F, 175 Degree F, 195 Degree F, 208 Degree F) and vacuum insulated non-electric keep warm
- Quick temp mode brings water to desired temperature without boiling, Micro computerized temperature control system
- Easy-To-Clean nonstick interior and clear-coated stainless steel body
- Interchangeable melody or beep signal may also be turned off
- Refer user manual below.
Specification: Zojirushi 586361-CV-DCC40XT America Corporation Ve Hybrid Water Boiler And Warmer, 4-Liter, Stainless Dark Brown
|
10 reviews for Zojirushi 586361-CV-DCC40XT America Corporation Ve Hybrid Water Boiler And Warmer, 4-Liter, Stainless Dark Brown
Show all
Most Helpful
Highest Rating
Lowest Rating
Add a review
Related Products
YILIKISS Electric Water Boiler and Dispenser Commercial 50L/H Full-Automatic Boiling Water Machine, Stainless Steel Liner and LCD Display for Tea…
★★★★★
- Camera: -
- Flight time (m): -
$189
Chefman Electric Hot Water Pot Urn w/ Auto & Manual Dispense Buttons, Safety Lock, Instant Heating for Coffee & Tea, Auto-Shutoff/Boil Dry…
★★★★★
- Camera: -
- Flight time (m): -
$75
Zojirushi CD-LFC30 Panorama Window Micom Water Boiler and Warmer, 101 oz/3.0 L, White
★★★★★
- Camera: -
- Flight time (m): -
$171
T. quach –
Like it. Very good quality.
Andrew –
EDIT June 23, 2020: Hi. It still works wonderfully. I actually read the manual a few months ago and found out several things: how to clean the machine and how to turn off the Timer chime. To turn off the timer to either be a long beep or to be turned off, hold the Unlock button one or two times respectively. Speaking about cleanup, Zojirushi recommends citric acid, specifically their citric acid packs. But I highly recommend to just get some citric acid powder (either on Amazon or your bulk store or wherever) and use that instead. The Zojirushi packs are literally the same thing. Save yourself the money! I personally use two to three heaping tablespoons. To activate the cleaning mode after putting the citric acid, hold the Reboil button.
I have not gotten a single rusting or coating issue since I got it. With the cleaning method above, it makes it good as new.
—-
This was the first Zojirushi product we got for the house. Not only was it the first Zojirushi product, it was also the most expensive kitchen appliance I’ve ever bought. So, was it worth it?
This water boiler keeps water hot for an indefinite period of time, as long as the unit is plugged in. This is in contrast to kettles which you usually need to turn on and then wait. This means that for this Zojirushi, it has made instant noodles, tea bags, instant coffee, hot chocolate, you name it… pretty much instant. Whenever the craving comes up, you have hot water available at your disposal.
I have the 5 litre model and the first thing I have to say is: This thing is tall! If you have a small family, I definitely recommend the smaller model!
With 5 litres, you have some advantages and disadvantages. As far as I know, the larger capacities have better thermal insulation since they use vacuum insulation technology. Basically, there is a little gap in between the exterior wall and the interior water of the reservoir that has as much air removed as possible, meaning very little heat can get out. Additionally, as physics will tell you, more water means more thermal energy so it will naturally cool down slowly than say, a 2 litre model. Considering both of these points, I just didn’t really care about the energy costs associated with this, to be honest. The insulation is very impressive, if it is the same as the Zojirushi travel mugs.
Of course, with a larger size means you won’t be refilling it as often. If you have a large household, a large model might be necessary, not optional.
But of course, larger capacities means it takes up more space on your countertop. (Small people might find it difficult to use, especially when refilling.) You get a pretty “industrial” product, in my opinion, versus the flowery, glossy white models of the smaller ones. And of course, (again with the physics!), more water means it needs more time to get to temperature!
As with all Zojirushi water boilers, you have temperature control in Fahrenheit, from boiling 212, 208, 195, 175, 160, and no heating/vacuum only. When the device unplugs, it sticks with 195. You have the option to reboil the water back to 212 or target a specific temperature only. To dispense water, you must unlock it and then press dispense. Handy safety feature. Additional safety feature: magnetic plug. Another safety feature: Lid clamps shut. Another safety feature. A handy handle so you don’t burn your hands.
Obviously, the water will go up easier than go down, so plan your day for what drink you will be having, like tea day, or hot chocolate day.
Dispensing water can be normal speed or slow for drip coffee purposes or for a smaller, precise dispense.
You can put the boiler to sleep for a maximum of 8 hours. If you are REALLY looking at reducing energy usage, you can do this before you go to sleep. The Zojirushi doesn’t do it automatically. Again, the efficiency of this device makes this a really negligible issue.
Now, some caveats of the product. First, if you want a huge amount of water at one time, I honestly recommend you just boil some water on the stove. The efficiency you gain with boiling in this device will only hurt you with how slow it will dispense. (And IT IS NOT SAFE TO POUR IT OUT FROM THE LID, so don’t try. ) So, this will suffice for small recipes and of course, drinks and instant hot meals. But for large batches of pasta? Keep that kettle for those instances or just boil some salted water.
To dispense water, obviously, um… it has to be plugged in. I know, I know, petty point but it’s true. More likely a safety feature.
Water splatter. I’ve learned to live with it but since the Zojirushi is so tall, I don’t have as much choice as to hold the cup close to the spout. So, yeah, water splatter will get on your fingers and hurt. You get used to it.
Lastly, the singing. It was cute the first few times, but I will honestly say now: IT IS ANNOYING. When the Zojirushi finishes boiling, it sings a song. Honestly, you probably won’t hear it too much since it is a 5 litre model, but it is especially annoying at night, the ideal time to refill it, and it makes the tune after 20 minutes. Sigh. It’s a con because you cannot turn it off.
—
This is the part of the review where I answer the underlying question: is this worth it?
Consider all the times you use the kettle. Are you a tea fanatic? Are you a instant noodle person? I honestly recommend it if you are. If you are a single or double, maybe opt for a smaller model? If you are a Canadian, hot drinks are pretty much my preference TBH and this is even better if you drink hot drinks year round!
But if you have a coffee maker and make the occasional tea or whatnot, skip this. You only buy a Zojirushi rice cooker if you REALLY love rice. This is for the hot drink enthusiasts. Not for the spaghetti boilers. Maybe keep around your kettle for that.
Ultimately, you are paying for convenience from a REPUTABLE company with YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. Plus, it’s MADE IN JAPAN. Not even my Zojirushi travel mug is made in Japan. This is the only Made in Japan product I own and it’s the real deal. From a person who had to replace their electric water kettle over 5 times in the course of their lifetime, I have no worries that this might break on me or cause a fire or whatnot. And that is impressive because this is constantly on and has more moving parts than any other kettle.
So yeah. Great product with a great function (if you use it often) from a REPUTABLE company. What else do I need to say?
Diana –
My mom’s friend had one and she just had to get one too! It comes in handy when all the Japanese ladies gather for tea!
Yves Renaud –
New review after 6 months.
After only 3 months of use, rust was visible at the bottom. I can the company distributor in California. They claim it’s because we don’t know how to clean the boiler. False: I have bought Zojirushi cleaner. Oh, then your are not cleaning it often enough. False again: I follow the maintenance interval. Oh, then it’s too often….there final answer was: you have bad water. This is unreal: I live in Montreal, Canada, the country who has the largest unpolluted soft water reserve in the world. The standard for driking water is one of the most advance, in fact, bottled water often are now forbidden and many major brand like Danasi are filling their bottle with our water. It says so on their label.
The headquarther then directed me to their repair center in Canada. A company called beaver Creek electronic. They also blamed the water but agree to replace the liner (inside of boiler) immediatly. Well, a little over 1 month, and the liner is desolving in the boiler. Look at the discusting particule in my first picture. This came out straith from the boiler this morning. The other pictures are showing that new liner, again 6 weeks in!
Response from the service center: you are using bad water. Ok now, get real. I will fill a complain with the consumer protection autority as this is an important health factor. If you are looking for a boiler, keep looking at other product.
Beth A –
We had a different thermal water boiler for about ten years, and found it extremely handy. I had been strongly tempted to get a Zojirushi before, but wasn’t sure how much we would use it. In fact, we got quite spoiled, always having water available to make hot beverages, and had to refill it at least once a day, in addition to at bedtime, as we’re both retired now, so we knew we wanted one with a larger volume. I also wanted it to be tall enough that I could fit one of my Zojirushi tea carriers under the spout. This size seemed ideal, and so far it’s met and exceeded all of our expectations.
First, it comes up to temperature amazingly quickly if you set it to do so. It will also come to temperature as slowly as you want if you fill it before going to bed, and set the timer; and you can set it to thermal, and let the vacuum insulation keep the water hot. The water gauge is easy to read once you get the hang of it. We have only needed to refill it once except at bedtime, although we’re both getting hot beverages throughout the day and evening. The thermostat reading verifies that it has always kept the water at the chosen temperature. We love the tunes it plays, which could be changed to simple beeps or turned off, but as my husband says, it’s a cheerful little thing, and we enjoy hearing it. I think the only feature we haven’t used is the self-cleaning cycle, as that hasn’t been needed yet. My only complaint is that 185ºF, which is the best choice for a few of my teas, is not one of the temperature selections; however, that is attainable by cooling 195ºF water through pouring from another vessel to my teapot, so that is really not a major concern. However, I’ve also discovered that if I keep the water boiler set to 175ºF, I can then set it to 195ºF and choose Quick Temp to bring it up to 185ºF amazingly rapidly, then reset it to 175ºF. It’s really quite amazing how quickly this heats water.
Thank you for reading my review. I hope you found it helpful.
Catherine –
I have kept mine on 208° all day every day for 5 years and it’s running like new still. Easy to clean, too. Great purchase!
Nick D –
Edit 2019/12/13: I’m keeping my original review of the product intact. It’s a five star product. Just consider buying from someone other than Amazon.
Amazon fluctuates the price on this product wildly; I bought one as a housewarming gift for my sister one day, and the next day it was nearly $40 cheaper at $145. I contacted Amazon Customer Service to see if they’d adjust the price, since a $40 swing in one day is a pretty tough pill to swallow. The first rep said that they’d refund this as a promo and transferred me to a second rep. The second rep said they wouldn’t be giving me any sort of price match at all, giving me some flimsy excuse about supply and demand. I have a hard time believing demand caused a 20% price decrease over the course of a single day, but that’s Amazon’s official stance on the matter.
The customer experience was bad enough where I’m seriously considering cancelling my Prime subscription. Amazon used to match prices in cases like this, and it’s disappointing that they can’t do anything to preserve a 5 year customer that orders from their site frequently.
**********************************************************************
Original review below:
I discovered this water boiler through a coworker, who bought one after an extended vacation in Japan. When he upgraded to the 5L version he put his old 4L in the break room.
From the first time I used it I knew I wanted one, but like most people I balked at the price. I could get full coffee/espresso machines for less money! I could get an electric kettle for $25. Why pay for this?
After waffling over the purchase for months, I finally broke down and bought this water boiler. I should’ve done it much sooner.
Let me tell you why the Zojirushi water boiler is a better purchase than a similarly priced coffee machine:
Reason one: more utilitarian. This machine has temperature settings to make all different types of tea. 160, 175, 195, 208 and 212F (reboil) allows for perfect green, black, white, and oolong tea steeping temperatures.
On top of this, a $5 pour over or $20 French press is all you need to get high quality coffee out of this machine. With the water available at the touch of a button, the only easier way to make a singleton cup of joe is to use a K-cup, and it’s not even that much easier.
Add to this the possibility of making ramen, hot chocolate, or any other thing requiring hot water, and this is by far the more utilitarian countertop appliance. Sure, you could just spit hot water out of your Keurig machine, but not with the ease and level of granular control that the Zojirushi water boiler provides.
Reason two: convenience. You push the button and the hot water comes out.
This beats the pants off of boiling water for tea. No more waiting for the water to boil, then playing the guessing game of how long to let it cool before pouring over (or worse, just scalding your tea.) Want tea now? Good! As long as you’re set to the right temperature, just prepare the tea, press the button, let it steep and you’re off to the races.
Had it set to the wrong temperature? Fear not! If you need to raise the temperature, the quick temp function will get you there in mere minutes. If the temp is too high, just throw a splash of cold water into the top and you’ll be good to go. The Zojirushi measures the water temperature real time, so you can easily get it to the proper temperature.
Need to refill the tank but you’re not near a sink? Fear not, you’re covered! This thing has a giant carrying handle and magnetic detachable power cord. You just snap off the plug, remove the lid, carry to the sink and fill’er up!
Wanna slow pour over your coffee? Touch the unlock button twice for slow pour functionality!
Wanna put this on a central point on your table but worried it’ll be difficult for people to reach? The whole thing swivels for easy access!
I swear, they’ve thought of everything.
Reason three: extremely durable. I alluded to this before. My coworker’s old unit was ten years old and still working. Guess what? The design is still exactly the same.
The fact that this unit is made in Japan and has a much simpler mechanism than most K-cup machines means that there’s not much to break here. Just give it the occasional acid clean (kits are available) every 6 months or so, and it’ll keep going forever.
This is part one of where you’ll ultimately make back your money. Other, lesser water boilers will die long before the Zojirushi, meaning you’ll have to pay for a replacement.
The only thing that seems to eventually perish on these is the rubber gasket on the lid, but guess what? This part is easily available and the part number is conveniently cataloged in the manual.
This leads us into part four: energy efficiency.
This is where the Zojirushi beats down other similar water boilers, because lets face it: there are other cheaper products that seem to have similar functionality to this unit.
As far as I know, the Zojirushi is the only unit with a vaccum sealed chamber. This means that to keep the water warm, it takes only 11-25 watts depending on temperature selection and unit size.
Less than a light bulb!
Given the long lifespan of this machine, that means it’ll eventually pay for itself in energy savings. Not to mention that it’ll outlast these other units and has more functionality to begin with.
In conclusion, buy this boiler if you like tea, coffee, ramen, or just having scalding water on demand. Don’t cheap out. Despite its price, I like this boiler enough where I’ve bought it for other tea drinkers as a gift.
It’s truly the best boiler on the market. Five stars.
Beechnut –
I received a defective product and found out I cannot return it for a refund or exchange.
I wish Amazon made this clear before I ordered it because I would never have bought it in the first place if I had known this is sold as an “as is” product.
Now I’m stuck with a defective product I can’t do anything about it. Lesson learned.
Keith –
It’s nice to have the water heater ready when I wake up in the morning. I like using a pour over for my coffee. Other methods work but this is more convenient. This is our second one same brand
Mimi Doc –
I can’t say how many times I needed water heated quick. Now I go over to my Hybrid Water heater and instantly have exactly what I need. No more waiting for hot water. It makes my soups, oatmeal, tea, and so much more. Great for a single person or family!