Screw that cheap **** communist made piece of crap.

Consider a goose neck kettle. You won't spill water on the counter.

I have a Hario Made In Japan , works great, money better spent. $46 bucks.

If you don't want to spend $46 bucks, here is an alternative, has good ratings but made by the chinese communists, Alternative at under $30 bucks. I have no idea how well the thermometer works.

You can also get an electric gooseneck kettle.
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I’ve been using a Bodum electric gooseneck kettle for a while now after finding flacking off coating inside my stovetop kettle (yuck). Make all my tea and pour over coffee with it. NOT nearly as fast as some kettles we used in Ireland last year, but was only $6 new in box at a value world (think goodwill). Would definitely recommend an electric over stovetop. You’ll save time and a bit of energy. Cost a little counter space which is a premium in our little kitchen.

The one benefit if a stove top one, is that it also produces steam for blocking your hat, etc.

We bought an electric tea pot at the Goodwill store about five years ago for $2. It's been getting used every morning to heat water for the French press coffee in the morning, and for tea in the evenings. When it finally quits working, we'll be getting another electric one.

The electric one is nice but I went with an old school stovetop kettle because I can take it camping and use it on my Coleman stove or use it on my gas stove during a power outage .

My Mrs got me a nice OXO electric kettle for Xmas. We use it in the rv to reduce propane use, plus it boils water faster than our traditional kettle too.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
The one benefit if a stove top one, is that it also produces steam for blocking your hat, etc.

Electric kettles boil water too, and boiling water produces steam.

But I guess you might have a point, where with a stovetop kettle it's possible to keep it continuously boiling and producing steam for a longer period, whereas every electric kettle with which I'm familiar turns off the heat once the water reaches boiling, so you have a limited period of steam production. (Although one could conceivably just keep turning it back on once steam stops coming out of the spout.)

100% what Rogue said. I have a tea kettle that collects dust. I've been electric for 8 years now. If you want to get fancy, you can get the ones that you can set temperature on which is nice if you brew different types of tea.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
I just run a cup out of the keurig without a k-cup in place.

Likewise. Though we have an old simple kettle around here somewhere.

We've an electric kettle. You can either just turn it on, which brings the water to boiling, or you can activate a programmable lesser temperature.

That lesser temp. programmability is handy when we're making coffee in the morning. The Aeropress my wife uses wants 180°F. That turns out to be ideal for me, too, when I make my morning Americano with my espresso machine.

It beeps a few times when it reaches temperature.

And it's fast. I mean really, really fast. Much faster than a tea kettle on our gas stove would be.

Another benefit of a stove top kettle is that you can use it over a campfire or other heat source that doesn't rely on the grid. A nice cuppa tea or coffee when the SHTF.

I had a cheap kettle from target. It worked great until the whistle stopped working. I'm back to the saucepan and a timer.

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Originally posted by architect:
Another benefit of a stove top kettle is that you can use it over a campfire or other heat source that doesn't rely on the grid. A nice cuppa tea or coffee when the SHTF.

Same is true of any bowl shaped piece of metal. A hub cap, a pot, a wok, or any number of random items.

I use an electric kettle daily for tea. After watching Why don't Americans use electric kettles I've been thinking of adding a 220V outlet near the stove to use a European 220V kettle that takes half the time.

Plus many points for the convenience of electric kettles! My Asian ex had a Zojirushi large water pot that had the push to serve button on top and kept about 3/4 gallon hot. It worked well until the interior coating started to sluff off. Don't recommend that one. We then got one of the smaller electric pot type made from glass and it was great. That is what I would look for if in the market.
As an aside, when we visited Taiwan her father made tea every day (imagine that) and boiled the water in a cast iron pot. The tea was brewed in a brownish red pottery/ceramic steeping container. It was the best tea I ever tasted. the ex said it was because of the cast iron pot. Better restaurants brewed this way also. The steeping vessels were often very old and passed from generation to generation and handled with respect and honor. The ex has one from her mothers' family and her brother got their fathers' when he passed on.

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Originally posted by architect:
Another benefit of a stove top kettle is that you can use it over a campfire or other heat source that doesn't rely on the grid. A nice cuppa tea or coffee when the SHTF.

Same is true of any bowl shaped piece of metal. A hub cap, a pot, a wok, or any number of random items.

Wow ..

V-Tail, I have that exact model you are showing. I’ve had it for just over a month now, and am very happy with it. Works great! Doesn’t leak or drip either when pouring the water out.