I'm a tea drinker and have been looking for a good pot that's easy to clean for ages. I have hard water, which leaves a lot of residue behind. And I would like to avoid chinese manufacturing. Currently I just boil water in a small sauce pot on the stove, which doesn't have the ability to stop heating at certain temps needed for certain loose leaf teas.
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Hard water is easy enough to deal with. Just use a Britta filter, I live in London and our water is very hard. I've only had to descale my kettle once in the last 4 years since I bought it, which was a mystery until I realized my girlfriend was making tea using tap water.
My kettle is just a 0-100 kind, so in order to do 80-85C for my morning coffee, I use my meat thermometer with the alarm set on 76C. By the time I flick the kettle off and the energy finishes dissipating into the water, it'll be ~82C. YMMV
I have hard water as well and like this one: https://a.co/d/7C7OYlR which I've used for last 10 months so far; fairly easy to clean the bottom where residue tries to build up
I only use it for boiling though; I use this pot for brewing: https://a.co/d/fTXsavt
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Although i like things that are simple and just work, dont fix it if it aint broken, and hate over-engineered technology... It still is funny to me that if we want to heat things up, we do it by running current through a piece of metal. Isnt there a more efficient way? I guess not or we would be using it.
Induction stoves and microwaves are improvements for certain scenarios.
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I just started using a French press because I was sick of making 4 cups just for myself in the drip machine. Been meaning to get an electric kettle.
A lot of people probably use the hot water tap on water dispensers now.
Ewwww
I rarely use all four elements on my stove at the same time so 99% of the time the kettle is sitting on an unused element instead of taking up counter space like an electric kettle would.
It you put the electric kettle on your stove it doesn't take up counter space.
If I turn on the wrong burner?
Right now, that just heats up a kettle that's designed to be heated up by an element underneath it.
If I have an electric kettle on that burner? I got a melted kettle and possibly a fire.
Important safety tip: One of the most common causes of fire in the home is people putting stuff on the stove that isn't meant to be there.
Doesn't an empty coffee maker do the same thing? That's what I thought, Merica is number 1 baybee!!