The Best Electric Kettle
I’ve owned many electric kettles in my day. Most were utter crap. But two have really stood up to repeated use and have great features.1
The best is the [Cuisinart CPK-17][kettle]. It’s a big boy, holding 1.7L but it also heats a full pot in just a few minutes. The two best features of this kettle are the variable temperature settings and the Keep Warm function. The variable temperature is accurate enough (less the 5 deg. variation from stated temperature) but the Keep Warm function will constantly cycle the heating element to maintain the set temperature for 30 minutes. That’s pretty nice. I also like that “Boil” is an option. Too many kettles just make warm water. I can make 1.7L of boiling water faster in this kettle than I can on my gas stove.
The runner up is the Adagio UtiliTEA. It’s a small kettle (30 oz.) but it heats up very quickly. Like the Cuisinart, it has a variable temperature adjustment but rather than discrete predetermined temperatures, it is a continuous adjustment. It’s really trial and error and I found it to have more error than I liked. The big bonus is extremely short heating times.
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