Just a kettle. But we need more words.
Copying some of the vomit-inducing marketing codswallop (and some of my own).
SUMMARY
Easy to use thanks to the 360° powerbase you can place the kettle in any direction. ANY.
Large 1.7L water capacity, prepares enough boiled water for 7 standard sized cups (or 1 kettle sized cup).
Add an exclusive touch of class to your kitchen with the Icona Metallics design. With a freaking kettle.
And then we have DeLonghist week ever.
so amusing tho. reminds me of that free ring sizer trend a couple years back.
in all seriousness ive never understood the allure of luxury kettles. this one has a completely removable lid — isn't this annoying? a relative also owns those iconic smeg ones and they are deceptively heavy when empty
reminds me of that free ring sizer trend a couple years back.
Yeah, that was the rage wasn't that? I couldn't quite understand those ones. I thought most of those things will end up in landfill.
relative also owns those iconic smeg ones and they are deceptively heavy when empty
I could imagine them trying to pour out the first few days only to realise it's heavy as if there's any water!
is every colour going to have its own post ;)?
Full kettle is roughly 4 minute boil time…
Needs more watts
https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c
Can confirm Luxury kettle is a scam
It's 2000W, the maximum output from a 240V x 10A appliance is 2400W, so yeah it could be 20% better, but it's at least 65% better than any 120V kettle.
Notably it's on the weaker end of the range in Australia, which typically run from 2000W to 2400W.
Which brand is better?
what's the other brand we're giving our opinion on? anko? Russell hobbs?
Can confirm Russell Hobbs build quality is awful.
How about Breville?
@CocaKoala: My Kambrook still OK for that many years, just the cover spring recently broken, heating up quite quick.
I’d say Xiaomi lol
Does it boil water or is it just full of sh1t?
Does it boil water
It is the general expectation especially when the product spec explicitly states "prepares enough boiled water for 7 standard sized cups", but I'm not privy to any conspiracies around it.
Could probably boil both I reckon
I wonder why did people ask how hot it can boil the water? Is it not normal to expect all kettles to boil water to at least 100c?
yes, but some can get to that finish line a little quicker, perhaps because of a higher power draw (up to 2400w)
I see. So the question is how quick not how hot.
Yup. Also there's the factor of how efficient the heating element is (for instance two Kettles may have similar wattage, but one might be 3.248% more efficient). The kettle industry keeps us all in the dark about this matter, and the government does nothing about it in spite of Pam complaining to the department of snitches.
If they happen to use it 3000m above sea level it only needs to get to 89.95 °C
Perhaps it’s a case of buying exactly what they need and nothing more
Bought the older model of this kettle using card reward points for my parents and they have been using it for almost 8 years so far - can confirm it's going strong and I haven't noticed any functionality issues at all. Tempted to get this one now for my me and my partner now that it's on sale again…
Ours is a tad slow, very noisy, lid not that easy to open but has lasted many years.
Got one (one with push buttons to pick which temp is desired) and been using it for a number of years now. Only complaint is that it is very SLOOOOW. Other than that, all is peachy.
We have the slightly more advanced one with buttons here at work and it's the worst kettle any of us have ever used.
Removing the lid to re-fill the kettle after a boil is annoying and a bit dangerous as steam builds up underneath it and as the lid is held in place by pressure when you remove it you need to 'pop' it off the kettle so it sprays hot water around the place.
The kettle's shape means the fill level indicator on the side isn't in regular increments, around 60% of the kettle's volume is in the bottom 40% of it's total height so you think you need to fill it up all the time, and the very first indicator is 1L, right at the bottom of the kettle, of a 1.7L kettle.
The beep from ours is STUPID loud, and shrill, it's awful. Have a google for other people hacking the base to stop it, or at least muffle the beep. We had it in a kitchen with all hard surfaces and it actually hurt to listen to. We've since moved it to a larger office with a carpeted floor and high ceilings and it's now bearable.
It pours really badly, if you need to fill something quickly, the thing starts spurting as it has no way to get air in to fill the missing volume fast enough so it splashes the boiled water.
Edit: oh yeah, AND it's really slow.
Don't buy this trash.
Any feedback on how loud this is? Been trying to find a truly quiet kettle for a while now
The only way I can think of a kettle being silent is if it doesn't actually boil water.
The Kettle industry's version of a "silent kettle" was to place a baffle in the base of the kettle,but they don't last long and then make more noise than when they were new.Go Figure as they say…
Recommended. I got the orange one. 😊
For everyone complaining about the lid, I almost returned the kettle for the same reason, but I got a butter knife and pressed in the little metal dimples on the lid and now it pops off easily without spraying hot water everywhere.
Why does someone need to open the lid of a kettle that's full of boiling water? Hot water can be safely dispensed via the spout, and if it's to be refilled then the kettle is nearly empty (I don't need to refill a kettle that's full, contents boiling or not).
Just genuinely curious about the use case that presents the risk of "spraying hot water everywhere" - why do you have to open the lid if the kettle is full?
The spray is from the condensation in the underside of the lid.
I rarely refill it right after I’ve just boiled some water but it was in response to a comment above that mentioned it.
I rarely refill it right after I’ve just boiled some water
I assume that by "rarely" you actually mean "never"? Because otherwise you might still need to answer what's that rarest of the situation where you bring the contents of a kettle to a rolling boil and then somehow take the top off to refill it while it's full.
Quite often refill it right away as I will boil water in the kettle when cooking as its 'free' from solar while I pay for gas. Or even if somebody used recently and just boiled the amount they needed and then you want some boiling water, it's not the water in the kettle itself that splashes out on you but the hot water that accumulates around the lid itself.
Yes you could refill it slowly through the spout itself rather than remove the lid.. or they could have designed a kettle with a lid that works better.
on Monday evenings, we buy delonghi!