We all drink hot tea. Hot cocoa. Warm up my coffee cup before I pour coffee in (kitchen cupboard is on outside wall and they get COLD). Boys use it constantly for ramen, oatmeal and other add-hot-water snacks. And other random things that we sometimes need hot water for--warm the honey when baking (cold cupboards) or soak dried fruit, canning lids, dissolve sugar for hummingbird feeder syrup... I just used it a little bit ago to get the wax candle ends out of the candle holder.