I bought an electric kettle

I recently picked up the same kind at a thrift store. Probably an older version. It's great, but I don't like that it beeps... ;-;

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
I have one that looks just like this but black plastic not red. It just clicks.
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.
- Same, but sometimes the other thing I'm doing is waiting for it to boil so I don't chance waking up my flatmate.

I don't think water is supposed to look red when you boil it.

I have an older version, without that snazzy red handle.

9+ years old, absolute workhorse.

Hm, seems unpractical. How are you going to lift that hot kettle without a handle?

What would be really cool, is a kettle which has an alarm if the water is cooking. Some really high pitched noise so that everybody hears it. But the battery would probably die on that pretty soon. Hmm.

With all of the stainless steel kettles offered by "Big Kettle" it's nice to finally see some transparency. /s

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

I just got this excellent cephalopod kettle that additionally heats water to specific temperatures. Saves me from having to add one medium size ice cube to my coffee.

Don’t buy SMEG. I was hoping its build different but its built the same with other electronics, to maximize profit. Won’t last 7 years, dont expect it to pass on to your kids.

The moment I understood that I belonged here is when I look at a post about a kettle and immediately go

"oooh...that is friggin' nice!" with no one else in the room with me.

I went to a store to look at kettles the other day, didn't find any I liked, need to go to another store and look at more kettles

Well done, sir. And I would also say it looks red, although I don't want to jump to conclusions.

I got a really good one years ago, my wife used it to heat up chicken stock to make gumbo. Never again.

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?
Ugh, RIP. I've ruined many a travel mug with milk, but I would never do that to a kettle.
Does boiling acid not remove and off flavors? I do that for desvaling anyway

1.7L

That's a lot of tea

Happy cake day! There's no such thing as too much tea, tho.
Unless it's dirty south sweet tea. Then that's barely a glass.
- High five. You midwest. No ice means more room in the Rt. 44 cup.

3000 watts? Yes please ;(

Request denied 🇺🇸

These glass Cosori ones are pretty good in my experience

They invented a water powered kettle a long time ago, but Big Conventional Kettle is hiding the technology

I don't see any electricity.

It's probably wireless. Everything is nowadays.

I just purchased the same one.

What advantage does this have over boiling water in the microwave?

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.
- For anyone that eats instant noodles regularly, or drinks coffee made using an Aeropress or a pour-over, or making Jello, or any other application where the water must already be boiling hot before adding, the electric kettle is king.
  It also avoids the quandary with having to carefully move a potentially-open top cup full of boiling water from the microwave to wherever it is needed. Some Japanese electric kettles are even fully thermally insulated and proofed against tip-over. These units require a positive actuation of a trigger in order to dispense; tilting the kettle isn't enough.
  And finally, using an electric kettle does not temporarily cause radio interference in the 2.4 GHz spectrum, with attendant WiFi and Bluetooth signal reductions.
If you have 230v power like a vast majority of the world, it's faster. Especially if heating over a couple of cups.
- Ah, fair. I'm not plugging it into the same plug as my dryer or whatever, my home's norm is 110-120v @ 60Hz on AC. I do have the 230-240v @ 60Hz option, but, honestly? I'm mostly on 5v/1-2A DC (I run a lot off of USB batteries).
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
- It's possible but iirc any imperfection in the surface will prevent this.
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.

Mine has the exact same bottom but a completely different top portion.

Got that same model in black. If it isn’t obv to anyone else, there’s a ring of blue LEDs around the bottom. They’re quite bright. Kettle works well, though.

Sweet.

Does it take longer to boil because it's transparent?

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.
- May be an upside if you are great at ignoring buildup otherwise.
- I've had one for years and it looks great. But yeah depends entirely on your water probably.
- Get a kettle descaler ball. They won’t remove existing scale but it prevents scale buildup.
- My water 💦 is hard 🌽 so I’ll need to descale it 🐉 frequently

It's also such a nice gift for just about anyone who doesn't already own one