It boils water. And it looks red. Yay
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Does anyone make a good kettle that has variable temps? Seems like most are on or off.
EDIT: Just gonna throw this here since a bunch of people were so helpful. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll have to check them out and post back here once I decide.
The Fellow Stagg is an incredible kettle that does precise variable temps.
The downside is that it's only 900ml and is quite expensive.
Hi - try the Cuisinart gooseneck kettle! Seriously, better than everything else suggested. Cheaper thank the Fellow.
Warning - the beeps are annoying. It beeps once when you turn it on once when it starts to heat up, then three beeps when it has boiled to your specified temperature. Then a final beep to turn off the base. If you have people sleeping it's pretty annoying in a small area. I have seen YouTube videos about disabling the sound but I have not done so myself. $130 and I think it's worth it.
It will do temperatures from 140° f to 205° f in 5° increments. And then boiling temperature 212° f of course
https://www.cuisinart.com/digital-gooseneck-kettle/GK-1.html
I have had a simpler variable temp kettle for about a decade (https://www.cuisinart.ca/en/perfectemp-cordless-electric-programmable-kettle/CPK-17C.html) which is great for tea (Why we got it in the first place). Definitely consider upgrading my cheap gooseneck with the cuisinart one.
We have a Fellow Stagg EKG for pour overs, and it works great.
If the gooseneck spout isn't your cup of tea, it looks like they have a standard spout version too.
The prices are not for the faint of heart.
What the actual fuck...
Why does a fucking kettle need wifi? What is complicated about boiling fucking water?! We've been doing this for millennia.
Uh, the one we have doesn't do any wifi. Turn the dual to set the temp and push it to heat to temp. Maybe that's what the "pro" stuff is about? And agreed, that's absolutely silly.
Ok, yeah, definitely had an update since we bought a couple years ago. At least it looks like the wifi stuff is for firmware updates only.
Why does a kettle need firmware?! It does one thing. Heat water. It turn electricity on when water is below a temperature.
Unless physics is getting updates on a regular basis, there is no good reason for a kettle to need anything except electricity.
I'm just throwing out there homekit integration and automation. You can open your door home from work and the kettle starts boiling. Or heats up before you get downstairs for morning coffee.
Niche, but not useless.
I know...stove plus kettle. Preferably an old kettle someone left you. Keep it dull.
Always seems to be a tradeoff for the ability to do that. For most uses I find it does ya well enough to use a probe thermometer and water it back to your desired temperature
Yeah, that's how I'm doing it now, you'd think someone would've slapped a rheostat and a calculator screen on one to let me adjust the temp...hell, may just do that myself
It sounds reasonable when ya clunk it out there, but inspires a foreboding in me as though you were going to overvoltage a CRT monitor somehow during the process
I owned a Xiaomi one years ago. Had an app and everything. It wasn't life-changing, but it did the job.
Can't remember anything about it, though, so this probably won't help much in your search for one.
Probably depends on the area you live in. I am in EU and got myself a 4 temp setting glass kettle for 30eur in 2020. Some cheap no-name brand. It got battle-scarred from time. Bottom LED ring has only 2 LEDs working. There are cracks all over the plastic ring on the bottom with small chunks missing. But other than that, it works and does it's job as if I bought it yesterday.
In the end, all of them work exactly the same so there is not exactly a much difference in some cheap ass one compared to say Tefal or similar mainstream brands. And 30 euro for 5+ years and thousands of hot beverages is more than fair in my opinion.
Mine looks like this
We use a Bosch with temperature control and ‘keep warm’. I’ve also heard Ninja make a good temp-control kettle.