Kettle buying?

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We had a Russell Hobbs jug style cordless type kettle.....not too old but the, as it turned out, all too fragile on/off switch broke :(

So now need to buy another but which brand & model with a more robust switch???

Any user recommendations much appreciated as to what to buy next??? Oh, ideally a stainless steel body rather than plastic.
 
I've got a Delonghi, brushed stainless steel jug kettle type thing, must be getting on for 10 years old and still boils water. Possibly the "argento" model, or something similar. Looks quite nice and it's quite noisy when in use, if you are concerned that you might need to hold whispered conversations in the kitchen while the kettle is on (as you won't be able to), Other than that, it's a kettle and it boils water.

We get through plastic kettles every 2-3 years at work, no idea why they don't by a metal one.
 
I've found Russell Hobbs kettle and toasters not to last very long.
 
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I bought a Morphy Richards Pyramid kettle a couple of years ago from Sainsburys - £25 in the sale with 2 year guarantee and it is still working well.

I knocked it off the table on the first night and the switch ended up hanging loosely :eek: but a quick perusal found that it had just jumped free of it's mounting and was easily popped back in. The only problem is that they have gotten round the switch breaking by making the engagement very lightweight- so it can be engaged by accident.
 
Look to see what the scale filter mesh is made from, plastic lasts about three months and is basically useless.
 
We've a Dualit Kettle - stainless steel and fast boil - well made and nice style (for our choice)...
 
Our Russell Hobbs stainless kettle is around twelve years old now. We live in a hard water area, but frequently clean the kettle out, and boil a full kettle a couple of times a day.
 
We've got a nice Philips one for over a decade. Seems to do its job.
 
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I don't think those boil the water hot enough. Fine for coffee, but rubbish for tea whenever I have used one.

Personally I have a glass kettle. It lights up blue when it's on. Can't for the life of me remember the brand. It was about £40 on amazon
 
gremlin16 said:
I don't think those boil the water hot enough. Fine for coffee, but rubbish for tea whenever I have used one.

Personally I have a glass kettle. It lights up blue when it's on. Can't for the life of me remember the brand. It was about £40 on amazon
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Got one of those too, only cos it looks pretty when boiling, big problenm I have is the amount of limescale it gets on the galss
 
gremlin16 said:
You should move up north, we don't have those problems :)
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Nor us in the Greater Metropolitan area*


*With an inline superbig water softener installed :)
 
We switched to a stove top kettle a couple of years ago because we were going through electric kettles like nobodys business!
 
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Always an option - nearest most of us would get to a Bugatti [emoji3]
 
Gremlin said:
Got one of those too, only cos it looks pretty when boiling, big problenm I have is the amount of limescale it gets on the galss
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I fell for the pretty when boiling thing too :lol:
Ours has a Brita filter built in too, so if you decide to upgrade that might solve your limescale problem.

Soft water here, but they seem to go overboard with the chlorine so the filter gets rid of the taste*

* before somebody points it out, technically it's chloramine here not chlorine so the short boiling time in the kettle isn't quite enough to remove it :p
 
SarahLee said:
I fell for the pretty when boiling thing too :LOL:
Ours has a Brita filter built in too, so if you decide to upgrade that might solve your limescale problem.

Soft water here, but they seem to go overboard with the chlorine so the filter gets rid of the taste*

* before somebody points it out, technically it's chloramine here not chlorine so the short boiling time in the kettle isn't quite enough to remove it :p
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Had one, couldn't stand the odd taste it seemed to leave in the water :puke:
 
Whatever you get, remember to descale regularly. Apart from extending the life, it also makes it boil quicker and quieter (I once proved this to a guy at work who was amazed at the difference).
 
Thanks for all the insights and pointers to makes and models :)
 
We have a dualit which works very well but is noisy. Difficult to talk near it when it's on. Haven't been able to find a quiet efficient one.
 
dgeos said:
We have a dualit which works very well but is noisy. Difficult to talk near it when it's on. Haven't been able to find a quiet efficient one.
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We noticed this with the first fast boil kettle we got years ago - new ones are still as noisy today, but don't really notice it anymore. [emoji1]
 
Time to unplug it.
 
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