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Looking for an electric water kettle (slrpnk.net)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My current water kettle leaks more by the day. It is mostly stainless steel, but the few plastic parts are corroded and lead to leaking.

Do you have recommendations for fully stainless steel or similar kettles that are basically not able to break?

I was looking at this: https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/xiaomi-wasserkocher-170-l-wasserkocher-23599517

But I don't really trust xiaomi to make quality consumer products

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Electric or stovetop?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good point, electric

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Proper electricity or girly American electricity?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

European (Switzerland)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Breville make excellent toasters and kettles. I just bought a Swan kettle though cos Alexa can switch it on from the living room 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fyi Breville is called Sage in the EU

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but if you've got a good recommendation for a 120v kettle I'd love it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

$270 for a kettle?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

not just a kettle but one you buy for life and that permanently keeps the water at 208 F while using only 10 Watts/h

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

10watts on stand-by? That's impressive. I didn't find that info on the website. Can you point me to where that is? plz

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the power consumption is listed in the manual not on their website unfortunately. as for sturdiness these things are built for restaurant use and it’s where they are mostly found for the purpose of infrequent instant hot water where one usually boils a full kettle from scratch. I’ve burned through three standard electric kettle here in the US over the years and had enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

10w is impressively low. And totally justifies the convenience in a lot of cases.

Thanks for the info.