ESEOE Electric Kettle, 1.8L Stainless Steel Hot Water Tea Kettle, Water Boiler with 8 Hour Heat Retention, BPA Free & Auto Shut-Off & LED Light Indicator Water Heater Kettle

This kettle comes with a base so that the heating element does not have to be a stove (in fact, do not use a stove to heat this kettle!). The kettle has a clear fill line that you certainly are not supposed to exceed. The boiling takes about 4 minutes at full at a mid-altitude city, and the temperature is boiling but not superheated like some cheap kettles. The circuit does turn off properly after boiling and the kettle itself retains heat very well for at least two hours (the time it took me to drink a liter of tea). Before you actually use this on actual food, you should consider cleaning it by a clean boil of water and some dish soap (it'll overflow, so set in your sink) to flush any residual manufacturing dust.The downside of this kettle is that from the picture, you can see the plastic top, and it is a real pity that when you go to pour the water, it necessarily must come into contact with the plastic unlike all metal kettles where there is zero interaction with any plastic. I really do not see why this kettle was engineered this way with plastic as the spout as they made it a point to contain the rest of it in stainless steel. It is BPA free, but still, something to work on in their next version. I probably would not make ramen in this, but this is great for tea settings over time.

This electric kettle is designed to sit on your counter keeping its contents (usually water) at a near-boiling temperature all day long, if you leave it plugged in. It can be really handy if you drink hot beverages (especially tea or other instant powdered drinks like hot chocolate) frequently.It is really a simple device. It has a round heavy-duty plastic base with an electrode post in the middle protected by several concentric plastic rings. It looks to be quite safe to me. Plug the base unit in and place the filled kettle onto the base, making sure it nests correctly into the center rings. A light on the kettle comes on telling you that it is warming. You will hear a soft sound of heating water, similar to what you hear when heating water in a kettle on the stove.When the water boils, it turns its heat level down to maintain its temperature just under boiling. It will stay that way until you unplug it or add new cold liquid. In that case, the cycle repeats.The heating cycle is not really quick, taking in excess of five minutes to boil when I started with cold tap water and the kettle was full.A round insert in the top unscrews to allow you to fill it. A fill line is marked inside to show how far to fill it. The inside looks like the inside of a Thermos bottle. I had a little trouble getting the lid to screw back in straight. It took several tries to get it seated just right so the threads would mesh and make it secure. After a few days, it got easier.A silver-colored tab on the lid opens the pour spout when you push the tab down. Therein lies a problem. When I went to pour the hot, near-boiling water into a cup, I pushed down the tab, which did indeed open the spout. I had to tilt the kettle to a much steeper angle than expected before any liquid came out. The first bit of water to come out did not pour into the cup as expected. Instead, it ran from the bottom of the spout down the side of the kettle to the bottom and then off to whatever was under the kettle at the time. I kept tilting the kettle until I got a nice flow from the spout into the cup, but the small stream down the side continued. Because this was a fairly significant problem, I tried harder the next time, starting with a full kettle, to tilt it more quickly to get a full flow and no leak down the side. Unfortunately, nothing I did stopped the small stream down the side of the kettle.Nevertheless, if you know this is going to happen such that you only pour from it over the sink (so the hot water dripping off the bottom goes into the sink), it is very handy to have near-boiling water ready at all times of the day. While I don't drink a lot of hot beverages, I find it very handy to have super hot water ready to rinse grease off pans before washing them. As the days go by, I am sure I will find a number of additional previously unsuspected uses for this hot water.

This kettle is AMAZING! I really like it. So I share a kitchen and do not have access to the stove all the time but I drink tea all day. This fixes my diliemma. I can now have my tea whenever I want. It works really well and holds quite a bit of water. I am so glad I bought this and am kicking myself for not getting it sooner.

I've always wanted to get one and now I finally have. This is very helpful and useful for heating up water I use for a variety of things, for cooking (pasta), for my tea etc. I am really glad that I bought it. I really recommend for people to get this if they are looking into buying and electric kettle.

Got this little guy as the one I had was super old and it was time. This is great!! You can heat up your water and walk away and it's all good. Also it doesnt have all those dumb bells and whistles. It's all you need

Beats water quickly

Easy to get rust inside and it took 30mins to boil the water. I had to throw it and I barely used it.

I found myself constantly heating water to make coffee & tea so thought this might be easier. The kettle has a good amount of capacity and is easy to fill up and use. The screw top lid works but it would be nice to have a handle a handle to make it simpler to twist off. Heats up fairly quickly and does a good job of keeping the water hot. It does have a plastic top spout that water flows through when pouring. My suggestion would be to change that part in the next version. Overall it works to keep hot water accessible.