Is it wrong to spend 70 quid on an electric kettle.

[gentlegreen]

I've gone through masses of toasters - Classic Morphy Richards - I bought it due to remembering how my parents' 1960s one seemed to last the whole of my childhood ... then there was a Tefal which packed up even sooner. The Tesco Value one started tripping the mains before I'd put a whole loaf through it ... I'm one person and I make between 4 and 8 slices of toast a week ...

 

[Termite Man]

not gone wrong yet

 

[gentlegreen]

not gone wrong yet

I've just realised why stove-top kettles have whistles ...

I bet I could still arrange one to boil dry ...

 

[Termite Man]

I've just realised why stove-top kettles have whistles ...

I bet I could still arrange one to boil dry ...

thats because you are old and probably slightly deaf

 

[gentlegreen]

thats because you are old and probably slightly deaf

 

[Geri]

I used to have a Bosch kettle, which was pretty good, but it had some black pastic parts which got scaled up and went all white.

I have this Morphy Richards one now, which is pretty good.

http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Kettles-Wa...7_1325414129_6907518c220dc8e397b6d4adbe780ee3

I'm sure I didn't pay £50 for it though.

Important things in a kettle to me are:-

Cordless
Big capacity
Easy to descale

 

[DownwardDog]

I have a Grohe "red" tap in my kitchen for post kettle living.

Highly recommended.

 

[bi0boy]

I have a Grohe "red" tap in my kitchen for post kettle living.

Highly recommended.

Crap for making tea though.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

When my kettle dies I want a Krups kettle and I aint afraid to say it.
Like this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Krups-FLF39...r_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1325414871&sr=1-1

They're pretty good, from what I've heard, look nice and I remember Krups from my childhood so it's a nostalgia purchase.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

although the reviews of that one are shit, so maybe not.

 

[Geri]

I have a Grohe "red" tap in my kitchen for post kettle living.

Highly recommended.

Surely the water from a tap is not hot enough (i.e. at boiling point) to make tea?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I wouldn't trust a tap to boil water.

 

[bi0boy]

Surely the water from a tap is not hot enough (i.e. at boiling point) to make tea?

Most cafes seem to serve tea by sloping a bit of luke warm water from a tap into a mug, so many people probably wouldn't notice the difference.

 

[Greebo]

I wouldn't trust a tap to boil water.

I wouldn't trust me not to put my hand under it when half asleep or not thinking straight.

 

[DownwardDog]

Surely the water from a tap is not hot enough (i.e. at boiling point) to make tea?

The manufacturer claims that it keeps 3 litres at 100 deg C. I've never verified this claim by measurement it but it seems exactly like the output of a boiling kettle to me.

 

[bi0boy]

The manufacturer claims that it keeps 3 litres at 100 deg C. I've never verified this claim by measurement it but it seems exactly like the output of a boiling kettle to me.

If it really is continually boiling 3 litres then that doesn't seem like it would suitable for tea which needs freshly boiled water. It would surely also use a lot of energy.

 

[bi0boy]

Basically it seems like a £1000 kettle that is on all the time. Kind of puts my £70 idea into perspective.

 

[Meltingpot]

I wouldn't trust me not to put my hand under it when half asleep or not thinking straight.

I agree, that thing is genuinely scary.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

They make sense in offices, but you'd have to make ludicrous amounts of tea for it to cost in domestically.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Of course it is wrong. It is one of the Twelve Commandments along with "Thou shalt not cycle on the pavement".

 

[Spymaster]

Not at all. I have a Dualit toaster. They cost but if your toaster goes kerping once a year, over the space of 3 years I will have spent the same on average toasters as I would have done on a Dualit. Having said that Dualit kettles are rubbish. Cuisinart is a very good brand and that kettle is the dogs.

We have a Dualit toaster and kettle. Both are ok and look good in steel and black, but when the kettle boils it sounds like a train going through the kitchen!

 

[Geri]

I had a Dualit toaster a few years ago. Utter rubbish.

 

[Meltingpot]

I had a Dualit toaster a few years ago. Utter rubbish.

In what way? I ask because I was thinking of getting one if my current one packed in.

 

[Geri]

In what way? I ask because I was thinking of getting one if my current one packed in.

It didn't toast very evenly, and broke down within a year.

It looked good though.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There's some things that you can justify spending out on the best. I usually buy good shoes. When I pro-rate the cost over the life of the shoe, it works out cheaper in the long run.

The same goes for kitchen appliances you expect to use a lot. Go cheap on things you don't use very much and buy better for hard use.

(Yes, I do a cost/benefit anaylsis for everything I buy. And yes, I am more than a bit anal.)

 

[Cid]

WTF!?

This is a man who thinks his CD player takes hours to warm up and would rather drink from a water bottle that's growing moss than taste a molecule of washing up liquid.

 

[Chz]

I'd think a quite good kettle would come in at about half that amount. For £35 (and probably less, but certainly for £35) you can get a cordless, 2700+W kettle with a switch on the handle (I hate it when they're under it) with a marked viewing window for water level, and will probably even light up. What more could you need?

The biggest evil in the world is the existence of those wussy kettles that ring in at 2000W or something. A decent kettle needs to boil 1 cup of tea's worth (plus some spare to avoid the dreaded "crunchy tea" in hard water areas) in 60 seconds.

 

[bi0boy]

Now I want a silent kettle, as mine is so noisy I can't hear the radio. Do such things exist.

 

[maomao]

Now I want a silent kettle, as mine is so noisy I can't hear the radio. Do such things exist.

Turn the radio up.

 

[stuff_it]

Sainsburys own brand stainless steel leccy kettle and toaster, still no problems after two years. Car booty find was a red enamel Aga stove top kettle for Al fresco use.