Electric kettles are popular with many coffee and tea lovers because they bring convenience, speed, and precision to the process of boiling water that no traditional kettle can match. few factors that you should keep in mind when buying an electric kettle.
Benefits of Using Electric Kettles
- Fast: Electric kettles bring water to a boil faster than either a stove-top or the microwave can. If you value efficiency or want your morning cup of coffee to be ready faster each day, this is a big selling point in favor of electric kettles.
- Easy: You add water and press a button, pretty much. Even electric kettles with more temperature settings and features are usually pretty intuitive to figure out.
- Electric kettles use less energy to boil water than either a microwave or traditional stove-top kettle.
Factors to Consider When Buying an Electric Kettle
Speed: When it comes to buying an electric kettle, speed is the name of the game. The whole point of buying an electric kettle is to save time and make your morning tea or coffee making routine quicker. Most electric kettles will take somewhere in the range of three to four minutes to boil water, while some advertise being able to heat a mug’s worth within 90 seconds. Check the claims the manufacturer makes in the product description and give a glance to reviews of the kettles you consider to see if what customers say bear those claims out.
Body: When buying a plastic electric kettle, ensure that the body of the kettle is made from food-grade quality making it safe for you and your family to use. Electric kettles are most often made with metal, glass, plastic or some combination of those three materials. Stainless steel and glass are largely considered to be of higher quality than plastic, although plastic won’t get as hot to the touch as the other two and can make for more lightweight kettles that are easier to travel with. If the part of the kettle the water touches is made of plastic though, it’s possible that it may influence the flavor of your coffee or tea.
Noise: While electric kettles aren’t as loud as some kitchen appliances, they do still make some noise when boiling the water and many include beeping noises to let you know when your water is done as well. Both types of noise can get annoying to customers, particularly the beeping if it goes on for too long or there’s not an easy way to turn it off.
Capacity: Kettles come with a defined capacity in litres. This means that you cannot boil beyond the capacity in one heat session. Kettles come with capacities of 0.75l, 1l, 1.5l, 1.75l. In case we go for a higher capacity we will also need to go for a higher heat power to match the heating speed. That is for example if your 1l fully filled kettle rated to 1500W takes 3 mins to boil, the same will not be true for a similar rated kettle of higher capacity say 1.5l or higher. We will require a higher rating to achieve boiling at the same time.
Extra Features: Temperature Control – The kettles with this feature can heat water to a particular pre-set temperature. This is very useful as some liquids like some teas (oolong, white tea) require a particular temperature where they will brew the best.
Keep Warm Function – This is a very good feature as an addition where the kettle is able to keep the contents warm. This is best if you want to instantly drink warm water and do not want to wait. Filling the kettle and heating it in ‘keep warm’ will ensure water is warm for a long period of time. The kettle achieves this by reheating when the temperature of the contents go below a certain point.
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