I bought an electric kettle

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.

I have one that looks just like this but black plastic not red. It just clicks.

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?

Does boiling acid not remove and off flavors? I do that for desvaling anyway

Ugh, RIP. I've ruined many a travel mug with milk, but I would never do that to a kettle.

Unless it's dirty south sweet tea. Then that's barely a glass.

Happy cake day! There's no such thing as too much tea, tho.

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

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.

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

We use a Bosch with temperature control and ‘keep warm’. I’ve also heard Ninja make a good temp-control kettle.

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

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.

Well played. Honor to your house and may your tea never oversteep.

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.

If you have 230v power like a vast majority of the world, it's faster. Especially if heating over a couple of cups.

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'm seeing that average UK socket circuits are 32A, which is nuts, I'm jealous. So that's it right there, 32A (I know (or hope) the kettle isn't pulling 32A) * 240v is a ridiculous amount of power, obviously more than any kettle would ever pull in a million years. My heat pumps and dryer are the only thing on the double breakers pulling 30A. Couldn't imagine a teakettle.

So the reason you can't just "add more amps" is US wiring standards. Most houses have 15 or 20A circuits. This puts an upper limit on the amount of wattage a single circuit can pull of either 120x15= 1800W or 120x20=2400W. This is going to be the biggest bottleneck, since going above this rating will either trip your breaker or light the cables on fire in your walls.

Beyond that, most plugs in homes are NEMA 5-15 outlets, which also limits the output of a single plug to 15A. If a manufacturer wanted to use a NEMA 5-20 plug to get that extra 5 amps, you'd need a different receptacle and thicker wiring to safely use it. Since most people don't have 5-20 plugs, there isn't really a reason for manufacturers to make them.

All of this is why pretty much every electric kettle made to work with the US electrical system is slower than ones made for 240V systems. Also, they all take about the same amount of time to heat a specific volume of water, so cheap ones are going to do just as good of a job as expensive ones.

All of these same limitations apply to space heaters as well, since they are essentially doing the same thing.

e=i*r. the coils are usually quartz coated nichrome alloy, which has a resistance based off length and diameter. so to get more amps, you just need more volts. as long as the circuit is basic (no electronics) that's just fine. however, most are rated for 110-240 or so volts, so it is only realistic in the us, and would require replacing the plug.

Trading off to pull more amps is not really feasible. Power is the work done, the product of voltage and current. This is what (watt) is being delivered to the water, ultimately. You can achieve this, in a very basic sense by either increasing the voltage or the current. However, a quirk of material interaction with electricity is that it is the current draw and the resistance that have a heating effect, I²R. However this is in every conductor, including the ones you have packed in behind your walls. This also means that if you deliver too little voltage to a product designed to pull a certain load (a given amount of power) it will make that power up instead by drawing more current, and hopefully only destroying the product, which I hope is cheaper than your home.

Additionally, your point about doubling the voltage is correct. If you took a live feed from breakers off both sides of your "split phase" distribution panel, that would actually mean you were delivering 240VAC @60Hz to an appliance, at the loss of your neutral line (frequency interactions are another consideration to an item) but many ships around the world work happily without a neutral line.

This is all very basic a way of looking at it. My apologies, I'm tired and not a teacher.

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.

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No, but you'll need to descale it pretty regularly if you have hard water. They start off looking nice, but end up looking trash after a while.

It's probably wireless. Everything is nowadays.

Wrong temp for tea. American here. I’ve used kettle for tea for decades. Speaking for them.

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 must be a new microwave because there’s hardly any detritus in there yet.

Where's the elegance and sense of ritual? The ritual of making it slowly is so comforting.