Tears of Lys Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have a stovetop kettle for boiling water. No, I don't make coffee in a bandana. (at first I thought you said a banana - :stunned:) And I've never been able to eat Hershey's chocolate since reading the thread about the weird-ass vomit-tasting ingredients they put into it - on PURPOSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have never had a stove top kettle for boiling water. We always drank too much tea and instant coffee to be bothered with fooling around with a quaint habit like boiling water on the stove. My parents also had a percolator for coffee on weekends and for dinner parties, but otherwise that took too much time as well. There were no inexpensive coffee makers back then, and by the time they came out and I bought one, they said 1. the coffee was too strong and 2. it made too much coffee. They didn't drink it by the gallon, they had cups throughout the day, and the brewed coffee was crappy reheated (we had no microwave until the 1990s). When I helped a friend set-up her condo in Florida in the 1970s, Floridians knew right away in the stores you were a Canadian because you fruitlessly searched for an electric kettle. Canadians always brought them down with them from Canada to furnish their apartments or trailers, or even if they were vacationing for a week. Those American heathens had no idea what an electric tea kettle was. Now I have a small kettle that boils less than a liter of water (the standard size is 1.8 liters, too big for me), and I bought a very fancy Cuisinart kettle that has 6 different temperature settings that I haven't started using yet because I'm too lazy. I'll probably start when the cheap kettle breaks, as they all do eventually. I also have a tiny Sunbeam coffee maker that I bought at Walmart that makes 4 to 5 cups of coffee, that I also never use because my coffee goes stale before I get around to using it. I really must start using it, I have found a decent brand of decaf coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 I've got a cheapo coffee maker my SO picked up at Wal-Mart too. Brews 4 cups. When it's doing its thing, it sounds like it's undergoing labor pains. Seriously, you can't hear yourself think over the noise from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted01 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I'm so glad this thread was started. I thoroughly enjoyed the last one. I know this Alessi is almost £100, but it has a bird for the whistle! That is beyond awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady narcissa Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have an electric kettle and a stovetop kettle with a whistle. I keep the stovetop kettle on hand in event we someday have a power outage. Also its decorative and looks nice on my stove. I can only imagine the conversations it has with the electric kettle when I'm not around as they sit next to one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I reiterate, electric kettles are weird. I know this Alessi is almost £100, but it has a bird for the whistle! That is beyond awesome. £100 for a kettle? That's like 160 bucks in real money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted01 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I reiterate, electric kettles are weird. £100 for a kettle? That's like 160 bucks in real money!:lol: The audacity of you, it amuses me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlainJeyne Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have a stovetop kettle that I use to boil water for tea. No electric kettle. I'm not sure I've ever even encountered one?I own a fair to middling quality coffee maker, but it's mostly for guests. I'm not much for brewed coffee. Usually I use a nespresso machine with pods. It's easy to use and tasty and keeps me going throughout the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamSongs Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 All I know is that my Keurig is a life-saver. I have reuseable pods and whenever I want a cup of tea or coffee, its fresh and only takes a minute. Drac, that kettle is cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I reiterate, electric kettles are weird. I used to think so, but tea kettles that go over flame are so damn inefficient and comparatively slower. The only drawback I could find to electric kettles is that it's hard to get a model that doesn't expose your water to plastic. I try to avoid letting my boiling water contact plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Not so much fun joshing the imperialists when the thread title isn't loaded with delusions of forum grandeur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mlle. Zabzie Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I had an electric kettle during college and law school. It disappeared in one of my moves and I haven't ever replaced it. I don't really drink hot beverages though. I do have a stove top kettle, but no coffee maker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I used to think so, but tea kettles that go over flame are so damn inefficient and comparatively slower. The only drawback I could find to electric kettles is that it's hard to get a model that doesn't expose your water to plastic. I try to avoid letting my boiling water contact plastic. This is a real nice glass kettle for a very reasonable price. http://www.amazon.com/Capresso-259-Kettle-Polished-Chrome/dp/B000BY4ZHO/ref=sr_1_31?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1416434203&sr=1-31&keywords=electric+kettle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This is a real nice glass kettle for a very reasonable price. http://www.amazon.com/Capresso-259-Kettle-Polished-Chrome/dp/B000BY4ZHO/ref=sr_1_31?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1416434203&sr=1-31&keywords=electric+kettle Oooooh, that's a nice kettle, and yes, a nice price. Never saw anything like it when I was looking for electric kettles before... I may have to suddenly discover rust inside our existing electric kettle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted01 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Limescale really gets on my nerves. I have to rinse the kettle out several times every time I use it. I miss living in Devon, with lovely clean water - and fresh air, while I'm on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I feel terrible because I'm so ungrateful about my electric kettle. I give it the evil eye every time I use it. My mom asked me what I wanted for xmas a few years ago and I had just finished setting up in a new place. I was lacking in several small appliances I wanted so I asked for an electric kettle. I had never really done any shopping around for electric kettles. I didn't have any sort of kettle growing up and was only introduced to them via a roommate in college and then somehow I just always had one after that until I moved back to the states and had to start over from scratch. It didn't even dawn on me to really look at kettles to direct my mom to a certain model. She's also frugal so even if it crossed my mind to consider fancy models, I never thought it would cross mom's mind. Ha. Ha. I got this $150 electric kettle. I fucking hate it. It's bulky and heavy and it takes too long. The beeps annoy the fuck out of me. It's difficult to keep clean. I wanted to return it the moment I unwrapped it but my mom was so very proud of this thing. She excitedly told me all about every single feature and handed over these gourmet teas and told me how great they will be now that I'll be using water at the proper temperature. The kettle I had in mind was some cheap $15 plastic thing. This kettle my mom gave me is probably really amazing and lots of people would be so grateful to have it. Me, I'm an asshole who cringes every time I decide to make some tea because I just hate the thing. I feel so bad about hating a gift so much that I punish myself by keeping it rather than pretending something happened to it and just getting the cheap one I wanted. I would have regifted it long ago but, fuck, my mom continues to be proud of this thing several years later. I'm glad I got this off my chest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted01 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 That is a lot of money for a kettle. If I were you, I'd tuck it away and use a cheap one, and only get the fancy one out when I knew she was visiting. Yes mum, I love my kettle.. *hides cheap one*Something I can't be bothered with is loose tea. Granted, I've only ever tried Russian Caravan, but it tasted like boiled arse. Making loose tea is such a faff, too. Teabags are fine. Only Yorkshire tea or Cornish tea, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 For tea I just use a stovetop kettle. Inefficient, sure, I guess, but while I like tea I make it only occasionally, so I can't see dropping a lot of money on a fancy electric one. For coffee I have a hand-me-down Cuisinart from my parents with a built-in grinder. Sure, it's not a burr grinder, but I can put whole beans in -- the night before, even, if I want*, and schedule it* -- and push a button and it grinds them fresh and I don't have to futz around with a separate device. EDIT: I used to have a Keurig. The coffee is okay, but when you can have great coffee with only slightly more work, it's hard to justify. When mine went up I didn't replace it. They are awful for tea. The tea pods are crap and the temperature doesn't get hot enough for proper tea even if you use your own tea. * I did this once** I've never done this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lessthanluke Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Limescale really gets on my nerves. I have to rinse the kettle out several times every time I use it. I miss living in Devon, with lovely clean water - and fresh air, while I'm on the subject. Every time?! I don't think I've ever washed my kettle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Limescale really gets on my nerves. I have to rinse the kettle out several times every time I use it. I miss living in Devon, with lovely clean water - and fresh air, while I'm on the subject. ya know you can de-scale your kettle. then it will be months before you get limescale floaters again. And to all you strange foreign folk, a Kettle is not just for making hot beverages. Its far quicker to use the electric Kettle than wait for the pan on the stove to boil when cooking stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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