Electric Kettle Recommendation
 

I am trying to drink less pop, so I've been making tea over the weekend for during the week at work. The only problem is that I only have a stove kettle and it takes FOREVER! I am looking to upgrade to an electric kettle. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

I've got a Capresso. It seems to work well enough.

The Brits laugh at our electric kettles, because theirs are wired for 220 and all of them can boil water in 3 minutes...

Both The Sweethome and Serious Eats say the same thing: Cuisinart CPK-17. They say it boils a liter of water in just over 4 minutes.

Now that I have looked for this, I want one.

We have a Philips and it works fine. You put a cup or two in for one cup of tea and it boils fast. You fill the whole pot to the top, and it takes much longer. So if you are one person, it doesn't matter much.

important points are cordless, swivels on base. There are many available. Don't spend shitloads, they'll break in some way anyway. $25-30 should do it.

Aroma I think is our favorite brand, although current one is Hamilton Beach, Back-up is Costco and Phillips have been good in the past. Kroger also had an acceptable one for sale recently, but I felt a second brand new back-up might be excessive. (We also have an emergency back-up that we take on vacation that was $10 from ALDI). And several partially broken ones that can still boil water...

What?

This. I agree on both points.

OK.

I re-read the original post.

If you are making one big pot of tea on a stove burner to drink (iced?) over the course of the week, I don't think you'll find an electric kettle that much faster.

Doing a little google fu,
I see that a typical medium gas stove top burner produces around 9,000 BTUs which is the equivalent power in about a 2,500 watt burner. Coincidentally, a typical electric stove generally has a bigger burner that uses 2,500 watts. So average gas burners are about the same as the big electric burner at the front of many electric stoves. You can get more powerful burners, but they aren't standard.

So you want to look at the watts used by an electric kettle to get an idea how fast it will heat. Many use only 1,500 watts. I don't see how they could be faster.

I would start by timing your own burner and see how long a liter takes to boil. Then read reviews of electric kettles and see if they even reveal boil time. The kettle UT linked to looks very nice, with temperature control, but seems pricey to me.

Woo! Thanks for all the recs!

The Cuisinart and Capresso look nice, but too expensive, I think.

monster - that's the problem - there are sooo many!! I use one at work and I got hooked there. Brand names are good. I looked up Aroma and there is one for $15 on amazon, but I think I'll look at the other models, too. Hamilton Beach had one I liked, but it was going to take too long to ship, now it's out of stock and I would have had it by now.

glatt - My stove takes 10-15 minutes to boil if not longer. I believe the electric will be much faster. Plus, I won't have to move the damn kettle around when I am cooking.

This. All of this.

Hear me laugh at your slow, expensive kettles - Ahahahah.

Nice feature(s) for $25-30 kettle from grocery store:
Window to see inside, if boiling. Blue light that turns off when done heating.

Plus cordless swivel base --MUST HAVE. Useless without.

True. I think that must be a universal law of electric kettles. I have had expensive (relatively) and/or trusted brands, quirky, nice designs, and cheap as chips from a low-end supermarket or discount store.

Some of the cheap ones I had for a couple of years - some of the pricier ones died in 12 months.

I just buy the cheap ones now.

It's a disposable item.

Not a bad thing, if used many times per day, every day.

OMG you have NO idea....... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. This was one of the biggest culture shocks.

....and when we moved here, there were hardly any. Thankfully, "Tea" has now caught on, so they are more available with more choice.

I've had the Cuisinart for over 3 years now - works like a champ. I had another brand previously that broke and did not last this long.

I ended up with this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TB3GZPQ/

It seems to work great for me. I can fill 5 mason jars with 1.5 pitchers of water. I put it out of the way so it doesn't take up any usable space. Cordless pitcher, but not a swivel base. I am used to that, though.

A time saver for monster...

pass.... but thanks

(teapots need to be ceramic for one....)

And short?

Yeah that just screams canteen tea.

Is that British for Cowboy Coffee?

Tea served in an old-style works canteen (place to eat and drink)

Ah! Makes sense.

Oh, like light beer. :litebulb:

Amazement...

hahhahahahahahahaa!

PAR-TAAAAY!!

PARTY ON GARTH!
PARTY ON WAYNE!

We have kettles. We use them to cook soups and stews over open fires.

tea in a microwave. bleuch. or in hotels with vaguely hot water from a pot designed to keep coffee warm

If you order (hot) tea in an American restaurant, you typically get a cup of warm water, and, some time later, a selection of tea bags.

If you don't specify hot tea, you're likely to get iced tea.

And if you are in the south, it's going to be sweet enough to hurt your teeth

but never milk, regardless of how often and how loud you request it

No tea for me, thank you. :eyebrow:

OH! You said Tea.

My bad.

Both my grandmother's made a big thing about tea with me when I was a child. They're the ones who encouraged putting milk in my tea, and now I can't enjoy it any other way. Makes it hard for me to like herbal teas....putting milk in them seems weird somehow.

Ewww - milk in herbal tea?


That's just wrong :P

My grandmother drank tea continuously and drank it tar black. No one else in the family could drink it that way. But then, she was different in other ways too like she got a pilot's license before her driver's license.

Watch out children this could happen to your Mom...

Go Grandma!

Did Donald Trump write that copy? (re: Butterfly Tea)

As someone who spends a fair amount of time transcribing people's natural speech patterns, Donald Trump is no more incoherent than most people. He gets fucked over in transcription a lot as well. They make no effort to put in the complex punctuation that's implied when he is personifying (inaccurately, but not the point) the words or position of someone else, nor do they insert an em dash when he has clearly jumped to a new thought.

We should expect someone in his position to be more coherent, absolutely--but the reality is that people with no experience generally speak in badly fragmented phrases when they are put on the spot. We should be far, far more concerned with the message/falsehoods he conveys than how stupidly he conveys it.

Maybe banana lady could smuggle some in? ;)