I wonder if you can help with this. Looking for a good and reliable cordless electric kettle. In traditional style, if possible, although this is not essential Heavyish use, it does not get cold between 07.00 and midnight. The best we have found so far are Morphy-Richards and have used them for about 5 years. The M-R warranty/guarantee system is not bad but their kettles go from bad to worse. Every one that we have used is styled to our liking but all have leaked from either, or both, the spout or the clear plastic contents indicator. The latest offering is now about 5 months old. I have a garden sieve that holds more water !
Thank you, and best wishes to all for a better new year.
We had one of those fancy globe-style cordless kettles for a few years. Not a cheap beastie. However, it eventually developed a couple of faults, including burning of a switch contact in the base. In an emergency we replaced it with the cheapest Tesco Value one - which has now been going for longer than it's predecessor and just doesn't want to die on us.
When my last "designer" kettle broke - I think it was a Bodum - I nipped round to Tesco and bought their ugly white plastic fast boiling kettle for £5.97. I promised myself (and partner) that we would replace it with something better when it broke, expecting it to last
366/7 days. I work from home so it gets a lot of use.
Four and a half years later, it is still ugly and going strong.
I also use the cheapest plastic kettle from Tesco (I think it's actually a Morphy Richards) for my essential daily requirements, cuppa tea every 2 hours or I stop functioning.
I stayed in the same hotel twice, twelve months apart. On the first trip there were two Dualit toasters in the restaurant, one of which failed at breakfast during my three day stay.
On the second trip there were two cheap Morphy Richards toasters in nasty white plastic. I asked the manager what had happened to the Dualits and he said they were always breaking down; the Morphy Richards duo had been going for 8-9 months and there had never been any problems with either of them.
Of course the cost of two Chinese Morphy Richards toasters was a small fraction of the cost of one Dualit, made in Britain.
Actually, our Dualit toaster gets very heavy use and has gone for years with no problems. I don't think they're right for hotels, though, as people misuse them. They try to force the clockwork, and leave it set to
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We have an Ottoni Fjord, bought in 2006 (I think).
Expensive (over 50 squids even then) and looks like a traditional old fashioned kettle. It was bought specifically to go with the new, old fashioned looking kitchen in a renovated Victorian house. Looks just the part, and attracts admiring comments from those who are into that kind of thing.
Still going strong. No probs. Googling finds it shown on price comparison sites, but no working links to current suppliers, so I suspect it's been superseded. :(
The hotel cumstomers? Yes, I'd agree but not the toaster, they do make good toast but you do need to know how to use them, like any toaster. Is the marked "light" setting really "light" after it has already toasted a couple of slices?
If some one every comes up with a toaster that can consistently and reliably toast to a given shade no matter the bread or the number of slices previously toasted (or not) they will make a killing, provided the toaster costs no more than =A320.
Did a toaster race while back, Argos return is a great thing, even the all singing dancing with LED temp display , micro controlled, Kenwood was no faster than the econo model, slightly more even, but not =A335 extra even.Tesco current white label toaster truly terrible.
Asda had a bad batch of Pacific kettles while back, 12 month warranty on each fresh one but 4 or 5 months a kettle was getting wearing.
Had good luck with Argos Cookworks coffee makers, =A36.99 and outlast much more expensive models with daily use.
Time to toast isn't everything. Was the all sing all dancing Kenwood consistent between batches of toast, done immediatly after each other? What pees me off with toasters is that the control setting used from cold that produces toast as I want it produces carbon on subsequent runs straight afterwards.
Took one of those back for a refund, you couldn't pour from the jug without it dribbling down the side, wasn't =A36.99 though more like =A316.99. Currently have a Krups does the job and the jug doesn't dribble. Still had to remove a bit of plastic flashing from the filter holder latch mechanism to make that reliable mind.
There are the classic Dualit toaster range with covered elements, made in the UK and there are also
Cheaply-made toasters sold under the Dualit brand name at an exorbitant price.
The former are the classic Dualit toasters for which you can get replacement parts and fit them without ruining the toaster.
The current (wide-slot) version of the classic Dualit toaster adjusts not only for 2 or 4 slices but for 1, 2, 3 or 4 slices and the clockwork timer CAN be wound back to zrero without damaging it. Though our classic old-styoe one which has had plenty of replacement elements has never had to have the timer replaced.
Of course the classic Dualit toasters are too dear. But they're pleasant to use, simple and with the pro-heat covered elements last virtually for ever. I have a couple of spare elements in stock -- one end and one middle -- but the new pattern simply don't burn out like the older ones eventually did. The mica covering does really work.
The kids have just given us a new one so that the old one can be taken to the holiday cottage where an unspeficied member of the family jiggered one half of the pop-up toaster by forcing the handle up when something started burning, not realising that the correct course of action was to turn the thing off.
Now, if someone could answer the original question, what about a good cordless kettle -- and could add to the specification, rated at a full
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