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Recommend me a kettle. Proper BIFL one but electric, not hob.
Does that actually exist? I mean, is one electric kettle any better than another? I'm sure we've all seen dirt cheap kettles in workshops/offices that have been used 30 times daily for decades. FWIW we've had no problem with this in the roughly 6 years we've used it. Living in a hard water area, the integrated filter is useful especially since I can transfer filtered water from it to my espresso machine.
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Some kettles are much faster than others. Also if you are a tea snob having one with accurate temperature control can be really useful.
Or you can just have your coffee machine on and have boiling water on tap.
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Yeah, our house warming one is still going strong. I broke the lid but the thing still works fine. 11 years old. Expensive kettles are just form > function and in some cases where they just waste power boiling all the time, they're worse. Fucking planet fuckers.
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I mean, is one electric kettle any better than another?
Yes. We've just got rid of a Bosch one (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9311192) - bad pourer (to the point that whatever mug you were using was always sitting in a puddle), and the lid failed closed after less than two years of use. Previously we'd got about 6 or 7 years each out of two Philips ones, bought because they were double wall so a bit cooler on the outside: switches failed on those.
Just gone to a Russell Hobbs Luna (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7249046) and although the 'quiet boil' boast is overblown, it pours better than either the Philips or Bosch ones did.
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In the same vein, our Dualit kettle is fucked after 5 years. The button doesn’t stay in the on position unless you maniacally mash it like a keyboardist from a 90s house duet.
The screw heads were conveniently stripped at the factory so I can’t meet it myself without breaking the plastic base.
Recommend me a kettle. Proper BIFL one but electric, not hob.