Electric kettle recommendations please

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Recommendations please...

We have a nice Breville kettle, but Mdm F managed to melt it, and it now leaks.

I've been perusing what to buy, but am at a loss. I'd like something robust. Has to be a jug kettle. I notice variable temperature selection seems to be a thing, but I can't see when I'd want anything other than 100⁰c.

I did rather like the look of this KitchenAid one, but it's £130, and without knowing if it will outlive me it seems like a lot. Is the cool dial really worth an extra £100?

[quixoticgeek]

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B013JM3GHO/

I have one of these. It works for what I need from a kettle. Aka making tea.

J

[robgul]

Recommendations please...

We have a nice Breville kettle, but Mdm F managed to melt it, and it now leaks.

I've been perusing what to buy, but am at a loss. I'd like something robust. Has to be a jug kettle. I notice variable temperature selection seems to be a thing, but I can't see when I'd want anything other than 100⁰c.

I did rather like the look of this KitchenAid one, but it's £130, and without knowing if it will outlive me it seems like a lot. Is the cool dial really worth an extra £100?

We have one of these* (Artisan Red is the ONLY colour to buy) and it's great . . . cook (a.k.a. Mrs robgul) finds the ability to set the temperature useful when requiring water at less than boiling temperature . .  for example, the purists will tell you, correctly, that water to make real coffee should be 2 or 3 degrees short of 100C.

Have a good punt round for prices - and watch out as prices vary for different colours (red is usually at the upper end  )

* I should own up that we also have the matching Kitchen Aid toaster the big mixer, all in red.   Whilst they were quite expensive they have lasted very well . . and are, I suppose, an investment in quality.

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Thanks Rob, just pulled the trigger on one.

[Jurek]

I've a Dualit. The dome-shaped one. My second one since I've been in this house for errr.... 18 years. The current one is around four years old. My deal-sealer was capacity - this one has 2 litres - it'll turn those 2 litres into steam in around five minutes. It sounds about as noisy as a 747 on take-off.

[Kim]

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B013JM3GHO/

I have one of these. It works for what I need from a kettle. Aka making tea.

I think ours is a relative of that.  ETA: No, it's a Russel Hobbs (see below).

3kW because silly not to when you have BRITISH anbarism at your disposal.  Gauge that works.  Barkata-friendly handle.  Un-barakta-friendly BLUE power LED, driven by a HALF BRIDGE RECTIFIER without a hint of smoothing, which I subsequently tamed with some chunky power resistors and whatever was kicking about in the 400V caps box that looked like it would fit.

[rafletcher]

We have a Bosch. Been fine for 5 years.

https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/kettles-toasters/kettles/TWK8631GB?intcid=Product-Details-TWK8631GB%7E%7EWebsite%7EContentTeaser%7E#/Togglebox=manuals/Togglebox=accessoriesOthers/

[Ham]

FWIW, I had several Magimix kettles over many (c 20?), although I only paid for one because, despite being spendy things, they had a propensity to break as they were too complicated for their own good. While they were still being made, I found that the customer service would honour failures through manufacturing/design fault, which is why I never had to pay any more. That not being the case, when the last one died relatively recently I had to go shopping.

My wish list for a kettle looked like this:

- 3Kw element. Fast boil is useful quite frequently, there is no energy saving to be had, so why not?
- ideally 2 ltr but I discovered that's tough
- robust, with an unfussy circular cordless base. My experience of the Magimix suggested that the simpler the better, so temperature control seemed like a fault vector to me
- Cool wall was a nice feature of the Magimix, but I decided I could live without it

I ended up with this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2137074 and it boils water well.

[Kim]

I ended up with this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2137074 and it boils water well.

Wait, that's our kettle!  I take back everything I said about it being a Bosch!

Archive photo confirms it:

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Ahhh...Happy tea.

Pick your own 🍄

[psyclist]

Our kettle recently gave up the ghost. I did some research as I wanted an environmentally sound option that would last well and have replaceable parts should something go wrong. I ended up with an Italian manufacturer who uses German parts, on the back of some good reviews. Imported from Italy, but no charges/taxes to pay and arrived promptly.

https://ottonifabbrica.com/en/

They have ranges at different price points.

[Kim]

https://ottonifabbrica.com/en/

"No plastic parts in contact with water" sounds promising.   

[Cudzoziemiec]

Ahhh...Happy tea.

Pick your own 🍄

"I drink ergot I am" to quote Descartes.

[phantasmagoriana]

I ended up with this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2137074 and it boils water well.

I had that one until last week. It was fine, until the switch broke. We glued it several times over the past year, but it eventually became unusable.

[Kim]

I ended up with this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2137074 and it boils water well.

I had that one until last week. It was fine, until the switch broke. We glued it several times over the past year, but it eventually became unusable.

Likely by design.  They want kettles to fail in a way that makes you throw them away before they start a fire or electrocute anyone, and more importantly, so you buy a new kettle.  Under-engineering the switch (or plastic parts that then leak) is a good way to ensure that.

Modern life is rubbish.

[hellymedic]

Likewise, we have a cheapie stainless steel kettle from Sainsbury's, whose switch is dodgy.

Ithink I've posted about this before (as has teh Kim).

[robgul]

I ended up with this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2137074 and it boils water well.

I had that one until last week. It was fine, until the switch broke. We glued it several times over the past year, but it eventually became unusable.

Likely by design.  They want kettles to fail in a way that makes you throw them away before they start a fire or electrocute anyone, and more importantly, so you buy a new kettle.  Under-engineering the switch (or plastic parts that then leak) is a good way to ensure that.

Modern life is rubbish.

Ditto toasters - I lost count of how many cheap ones we went through before buying a Dualit in 1995 - we've had the spangly Kitchen Aid since about 2018, the Dualit was/is still perfectly OK in storage in the loft . . .  the KA was pretty much a freebie with something else we bought so it seemed rude not to use it!

[Mr Larrington]

My even cheaper plastic one from Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles is still behaving itself after seven and a half years though it could probably do with a good scrub to render the pleasing blue Cherenkov radiation effect properly visible again.

[ian]

The one in our kitchen (John Lewis badged whatever) was a wedding present, so that dates back to 2005 erm, 2006.