It boils water. And it looks red. Yay
Update: the tea filter broke and thus the auto shutoff as well (fix this with a towel on the top of the kettle). There’s a fragile plastic rod that attaches to either a string or a spring that controls the tea filter’s mounting. It broke for me and just flopped downwards instead of shutting the kettle. Managed to get a replacement, but I wouldn’t get this exact model.
Update 2: my roommate closed the lid a little too hard and it shattered the glass. If you are shopping for a kettle this one is a little too cheap.
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I recently picked up the same kind at a thrift store. Probably an older version. It’s great, but I don’t like that it beeps… ;-;
We’ve had an electric kettle for a while, and when it’s done it just clicks off. It’s the perfect amount of noise that I now have a Pavlovian response to haha
We have a Bosch that beeps. First I hated it. Now I love it. I can do other things and still register that it is finished.
Same, but sometimes the other thing I’m doing is waiting for it to boil so I don’t chance waking up my flatmate.
Yeah, that’s the thing with ours. If you lift it off it’s base while heating it also beeps.
I have one that looks just like this but black plastic not red. It just clicks.
I have an older version, without that snazzy red handle.
9+ years old, absolute workhorse.
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Well done, sir. And I would also say it looks red, although I don’t want to jump to conclusions.
I got a really good one years ago, my wife used it to heat up chicken stock to make gumbo. Never again.
Sorry about the divorce but you had to do it, no other options
This has me fucked up. Did your coffee the next day taste like chicken?
Ugh, RIP. I’ve ruined many a travel mug with milk, but I would never do that to a kettle.
1.7L
That’s a lot of tea
Unless it’s dirty south sweet tea. Then that’s barely a glass.
High five. You midwest. No ice means more room in the Rt. 44 cup.
Happy cake day! There’s no such thing as too much tea, tho.
Does anyone make a good kettle that has variable temps? Seems like most are on or off.
EDIT: Just gonna throw this here since a bunch of people were so helpful. Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll have to check them out and post back here once I decide.
The Fellow Stagg is an incredible kettle that does precise variable temps.
The downside is that it’s only 900ml and is quite expensive.
Hi - try the Cuisinart gooseneck kettle! Seriously, better than everything else suggested. Cheaper thank the Fellow.
Warning - the beeps are annoying. It beeps once when you turn it on once when it starts to heat up, then three beeps when it has boiled to your specified temperature. Then a final beep to turn off the base. If you have people sleeping it’s pretty annoying in a small area. I have seen YouTube videos about disabling the sound but I have not done so myself. $130 and I think it’s worth it.
It will do temperatures from 140° f to 205° f in 5° increments. And then boiling temperature 212° f of course
https://www.cuisinart.com/digital-gooseneck-kettle/GK-1.html
I have had a simpler variable temp kettle for about a decade (https://www.cuisinart.ca/en/perfectemp-cordless-electric-programmable-kettle/CPK-17C.html) which is great for tea (Why we got it in the first place). Definitely consider upgrading my cheap gooseneck with the cuisinart one.
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We have a Fellow Stagg EKG for pour overs, and it works great.
If the gooseneck spout isn’t your cup of tea, it looks like they have a standard spout version too.
The prices are not for the faint of heart.
Plus, with WiFi updates, Corvo EKG Pro evolves with your brewing needs, keeping your kettle up to date for consistent, top-tier performance.
What the actual fuck…
Why does a fucking kettle need wifi? What is complicated about boiling fucking water?! We’ve been doing this for millennia.
I know…stove plus kettle. Preferably an old kettle someone left you. Keep it dull.
Uh, the one we have doesn’t do any wifi. Turn the dual to set the temp and push it to heat to temp. Maybe that’s what the “pro” stuff is about? And agreed, that’s absolutely silly.
Ok, yeah, definitely had an update since we bought a couple years ago. At least it looks like the wifi stuff is for firmware updates only.
Why does a kettle need firmware?! It does one thing. Heat water. It turn electricity on when water is below a temperature.
Unless physics is getting updates on a regular basis, there is no good reason for a kettle to need anything except electricity.
I’m just throwing out there homekit integration and automation. You can open your door home from work and the kettle starts boiling. Or heats up before you get downstairs for morning coffee.
Niche, but not useless.
Always seems to be a tradeoff for the ability to do that. For most uses I find it does ya well enough to use a probe thermometer and water it back to your desired temperature
Yeah, that’s how I’m doing it now, you’d think someone would’ve slapped a rheostat and a calculator screen on one to let me adjust the temp…hell, may just do that myself
It sounds reasonable when ya clunk it out there, but inspires a foreboding in me as though you were going to overvoltage a CRT monitor somehow during the process
We use a Bosch with temperature control and ‘keep warm’. I’ve also heard Ninja make a good temp-control kettle.
I owned a Xiaomi one years ago. Had an app and everything. It wasn’t life-changing, but it did the job.
Can’t remember anything about it, though, so this probably won’t help much in your search for one.
Probably depends on the area you live in. I am in EU and got myself a 4 temp setting glass kettle for 30eur in 2020. Some cheap no-name brand. It got battle-scarred from time. Bottom LED ring has only 2 LEDs working. There are cracks all over the plastic ring on the bottom with small chunks missing. But other than that, it works and does it’s job as if I bought it yesterday.
In the end, all of them work exactly the same so there is not exactly a much difference in some cheap ass one compared to say Tefal or similar mainstream brands. And 30 euro for 5+ years and thousands of hot beverages is more than fair in my opinion.
Mine looks like this
Yay
With all of the stainless steel kettles offered by “Big Kettle” it’s nice to finally see some transparency. /s
Well played. Honor to your house and may your tea never oversteep.
I’m going to buy an electric kettle when my tired old coffee pot finally shits the bed. My kitchen is limited in size and is already in the grips of Too Many Small Kitchen Appliances.
The moment I understood that I belonged here is when I look at a post about a kettle and immediately go
“oooh…that is friggin’ nice!” with no one else in the room with me.
You belong. That squid kettle belongs in my kitchen, though, mail it to me, I don’t care if it doesn’t like my national voltage.
Dunno why brits insist on a whole other appliance to heat water for tea. Chuck a tea bag in a mug, fill with water, and toss it in the microwave for 2 minutes. EZPZ :>
Wrong temp for tea. American here. I’ve used kettle for tea for decades. Speaking for them.
Wrong temp for tea
How so? Air pressure aside, boiling is boiling.
It isn’t heated evenly. Top and bottom would have different temperatures as a result. Kettle is evenly heated and has a consistent temperature.
That doesn’t make any sense. Heating will cause the water to circulate, as will adding the tea, a spoon, whatever. By the time it’s becoming tea, any temperature gradient within a cup is approximately zero.
The microwave approach is fine for fruit infusions, but sucks for real tea. Black tea especially needs to be brewed with freshly boiling water, not gradually brought up to temperature like you’re reheating soup. It throws off the whole brew.
Source: am brit
That’s why you boil water in the microwave then add tea. Boiling is boiling, it doesn’t matter how it gets there.
The person I replied to said, and their picture shows, keeping the teabag in the mug inside the microwave. That’s the part that’s objectionable.
Oh yeah that’s just monstrous, but it’s not the microwave that’s the problem there.
That must be a new microwave because there’s hardly any detritus in there yet.
You know you can clean them right?
The heat sanitizes it every time I use it so I’m not sure if it visually being pretty is worth the time or effort.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cooking-food-in-dirty-microwave/
Interesting read, you’re mainly correct according to this, not because it kills all the bugs, but if you don’t get old food falling into your dish while it’s heating, you’re probably pretty ok.
.Clean your microwave and cover your food when you microwave it, don’t live like an animal just because it won’t kill you. It’s part of being an adult.
I don’t think animals are able to use a microwave.
I really hope you’re joking
Where’s the elegance and sense of ritual? The ritual of making it slowly is so comforting.
I went to a store to look at kettles the other day, didn’t find any I liked, need to go to another store and look at more kettles
I just got this excellent cephalopod kettle that additionally heats water to specific temperatures. Saves me from having to add one medium size ice cube to my coffee.
What advantage does this have over boiling water in the microwave?
More energy efficient and sometimes faster, quieter (or at least a more pleasant sound imo), and just feels nicer to pour. I have a gooseneck one that can target a specific temperature that is an absolute treat to use. It’s by far our most used kitchen gadget. It’s one of those “little things” that make life better in not entirely tangible ways.
For anyone that eats instant noodles regularly, or drinks coffee made using an Aeropress or a pour-over, or making Jello, or any other application where the water must already be boiling hot before adding, the electric kettle is king.
It also avoids the quandary with having to carefully move a potentially-open top cup full of boiling water from the microwave to wherever it is needed. Some Japanese electric kettles are even fully thermally insulated and proofed against tip-over. These units require a positive actuation of a trigger in order to dispense; tilting the kettle isn’t enough.
And finally, using an electric kettle does not temporarily cause radio interference in the 2.4 GHz spectrum, with attendant WiFi and Bluetooth signal reductions.
If you have 230v power like a vast majority of the world, it’s faster. Especially if heating over a couple of cups.
Ah, fair. I’m not plugging it into the same plug as my dryer or whatever, my home’s norm is 110-120v @ 60Hz on AC. I do have the 230-240v @ 60Hz option, but, honestly? I’m mostly on 5v/1-2A DC (I run a lot off of USB batteries).
Boiling it in a kettle or even a pot doesn’t have that weird metallic-ish taste that it gets if you microwave it.
I don’t have a microwave, and my kettle has different modes
I thought you weren’t supposed to microwave water because it can superheat or something
I love that mine has a grid of different temperatures that I can chose with a single button press. 70 for the kid’s cocoa, 80 for green tea, 95 for my French press and boiling for black tea.
I don’t think water is supposed to look red when you boil it.
