After a new kettle what/ from where do you recommend?
any good deals around?
Thanks
New Kettle?
socheap on 13/05/2016 - 14:55
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currently using $7.50 kettle from big w it's lasted about two years now which is 1 year 9 months longer then the sunbeam kettle before it.
Now that's an OzBargainer.
ditto, i buy a new one every 19 months or so - it's usually the switches that go
I have a russell hobbs kettle that has been used several times a day for the last 10 years.
Don't have one anymore, now using a hot water dispenser. Higher up front cost yes, but no noise, no bench top clutter and a cup of tea without waiting. Running costs are about the same.
How could running costs be even remotely the same? A kettle boils just what you need when you need it. A dispenser keeps water hot 24/7.
Checking your link, it says it uses "less than a 40w light bulb" and it uses a 1300watt element.
To put it in perspective, you would need to boil a normal kettle for a full hour every day to use the same. With my kettle that would produce about 100 cups of tea.
A more reasonable 6 cups of tea per day would use less than a 10th of the power.
A hot water dispenser in a domestic situation is wasteful of energy and pollution, and would cost in the order of $80 more per year to run than a normal kettle.If it's anywhere like the work one, it boils water as it comes out of the tap on demand. Only heats as much as needed on the fly much like a continuous hot water system
Well it depends on usage and kettle power of course, but for us it works. Observationally and measured it is around the same at about 0.6KW a day.
If we take the link's 40W light bulb it is 40x24/1000 = 0.96KW a day. However our kettle is 2.4KW so to get the same consumption the kettle would need to run for 0.96/2.4x60 = 24 minutes.
So depending on how many times a day the kettle is boiled ( for us more than 6 ) 24 minutes would be easily achievable.
The problem with kettles is that we boil more water than we need from cold each time and for us often we would put it on then go off to something else because it will take a few minutes, come back and reboil because we we took longer than thought.
The other offset we have is solar with net metering that can feed a lot of that 1300W but not anywhere near the 2400W
we have had this one for years. Great kettle, very quiet, quick to boil.
A best part is its good to hold and pour, not all kettles are good in that department.
Lift the kettle up and the switch flicks off.http://www.breville.com.au/kettle-3246.html
breville soft top pure.I have the same. It's a good unit. Don't go plastic kettles, at minimum get the stainless steel one. The boiled water tastes different
I can't do steel ones I always get zapped.
Not sure why you would get zapped because they should be insulated . You could always go full clear glass. A lot of newer models use glass now
Anyone have one you can set the temp for tea?
Yep this one https://www.sunbeam.com.au/Café-Series-Kettle-1.aspx best kettle I've had well worth the money. If say it's as quiet as you can expect from a kettle and has options for tea, green tea, coffee etc. Think it also has an option for sterilising baby bottles.
I just bought an Electrolux that has the temperature adjustments as well as a "keep warm" feature and digital display with current temperature. I love it.
We have the Cuisinart Kettle with diff temp settings for tea, coffee etc. Very happy with it. The only issue with it now is that the writings on the temp settings has now rubbed off.
http://m.myer.com.au/shop/mobile/mystore/cuisinart-cpk17-a-p…
This one for me. Nice and compact, easy to see how much to fill. http://www.breville.com.au/the-compact-kettletm-pure.html
I myself would have bought any old stainless steel kettle but my wife drinks tea, so i bought her this. Looks good, 1.7L capacity, multi temp buttons.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/whitegoods-appliances/kitchen-appl…
I got a discount saying that Myer had an appliance sale and they matched the discount (20 percent off) taken off their JB price too. Lucky!
I bought several so called top brands over the years that each lasted a couple of years only. Then I bought a $12 plastic kettle from Coles which has given perfect service for over five years and still going perfectly. My next kettle, which I have no sign of needing, will be a $7 item from Kmart.
We have the Breville one that allows you to heat to 4 pre-defined temperatures. Looks nice (we got red)
But for god's sake AVOID it like the plague. It takes about three times as long as our old kettle, and makes a ridiculous amount of noise. Seriously whenever it's boiling in the kitchen, we have to turn the volume up on our TV in the loungeroom by 10db.
I wish we'd never bought it!!
I got the one with the see through glass on the sides. I could stand and watch the bubbles all day.
Got a Breville one with the different temp settings, and the whole jug is clear ;)
What does everyone think of a stove top version? (we have gas)
The domain of serial killers and other psychopaths?
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/kitchen-appliances/small-kitc…
I think this Electroulux Expressionist Kettle is a great deal.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Travel-Heater-Element-Mini-Boiler…