Mecity Electric Tea Kettle with Removable Infuser, 9 Preset Brewing Programs, Temperature Control, 2 Hours Keep Warm, Borosilicate Glass, 1.7 Liter, 1200W

Summary - Likes: Not too tall: easy to maneuver under overhead kitchen cabinets; Good temperature control: for specialty teas, comes up to precise temp gently, doesn't overshoot; Preset temperature modes AND manual adjust; Easy to program using the twiddle-and-push knob; All controls and display are in the base: there's more space than in the handle, so it's easy to read and control, also keeps heat away from electronics; Nicely fitting inner and outer lids; Memory feature: remembers what it was doing (e.g .keep warm) when kettle lifted off base and returned (but see description below); Gentle, polite "ping" that can even be muted, though it's so unoffensive you won't need to; Easy to pour, no drip; Glass kettle: easy to see contents; Easy to use (one button) keep warm feature; Packaging: if you like that sort of thing, the packaging of this product is very glamorous, you'll be happy you chose it before you even plug it in. Summary - Dislikes: Tea infuser attachment doesn't fit well, and is only useful for brewing pot-fulls of tea; that's it! Summary - Things to be aware of (not necessarily bad, depending on your needs, but you should consider prior to purchase): 1200W heater, not 1700W like the big-boys; but it's well fast enough for brewing a pot of tea. If the time it takes to boil is too long for you, you won't have time to enjoy a cup of tea anyway! No scale filter: you may need to descale frequently, but that is easy and fast (see notes); Memory feature returns kettle to previous heating mode when replaced onto base - be careful if you return an empty kettle to the base! To shut the kettle off, simply hold down the twiddle-button for three seconds, and it will shut off. Detailed discussion: I purchased this kettle early in December, and as two of my family members were ill with Covid and flu at that time, I made A LOT of tea for them with it for over a month. It rose to the task magnificently, and I loved it almost immediately, especially appreciating the accurate temperature control and keep warm features. Note that for the "less than boiling" temperature modes, the kettle heats to close to the set temperature, then goes into a slow mode, bringing the water up to the precise temperature gently, so as not to overshoot: very clever! As it's a glass kettle, you can see the quantity of water easily. You can ALSO see the scale build up. All kettles accumulate scale, of course: it's a function of the calcium hardness in the water separating out when the water is heated, and the kettle cannot avoid doing so. It's a glass kettle, so from a design perspective, there's no practical way of supporting a mesh filter in the spout, so it doesn't have one. If you pour heated water directly from the kettle into a mug, you'll get scale too, if there's any in the bottom. You'd really want to avoid chewing bits of calcium scale with you tea, so descale early and often! In its early, busy period, I had to (chose to) descale mine every three days; however, I discovered how easy and fast it was to do so: half a litre (two cups) water , quarter liter (one cup) vinegar, set it to green tea (don't even need to boil), and turn it on. It was done within a couple of minutes: you can literally watch the scale disappear - very entertaining! Really, make it a point of doing it frequently, and you'll find it fast and easy, and rewarding. The infuser is the weakest feature of the whole product: it's soft metal, and has to be attached to the underside of the inner lid. Being English, I brew primarily real English-style black tea (PG Tips), and only into a tea pot (English style black tea into a mug or in a multi-purpose kettle like this one is a bad mistake you only make once!), so I don't use the infuser. If you use it, and especially if you make black tea, you'll need to remove the inner lid, rinse the infuser under cold water (so you don't hurt yourself!), remove it, then replace the inner lid. The kettle has a memory feature - not to be confused with keep-warm, so if you lift it off the base, then return it within a few minutes, it goes back to what you were doing before. That can be a bad thing if you lift if before it reaches programmed temperature, or if it's in keep-warm mode, and you drain the kettle, then put it back: it will try to heat empty, and while it's "officially" boil-dry protected, remember that it's already hot, so it will overheat really quickly. You don't want to do that, safety shut-off or not. Once my wife recovered from Covid, and flu, she started using the kettle herself, and she immediately liked it, and complimented me for making yet another good choice, after our new induction range and coffee pot... I'm on a roll, and might eventually even be forgiven for buying the "wrong" dishwasher ;-) All in all, I strongly recommend this excellent product, and would happily buy it again, or another, if the need arose.

I ordered this because I like green tea. I like hot brewed, then chilled green tea. I didn't really have a tea pot to call my own, so I was just using a sauce pan to boil water, like momma used to make. It was pretty inefficient, plus had the added benefit of cracking a glass pitcher when I forgot my basic high school physics. When I ordered this, it was a whim, I think I had enough points on my credit card to get it for free, so I figured I'd give it a go. Since then it's been set up on my kitchen counter and used frequently. The read out is very easy to read, and the controls are quite intuitive and well labeled. For those of you who, like me, enjoy something but they don't really know the ins and outs of making it, there are a number of handy setting to set the temp to recommended levels for whatever type of beverage you're steeping. Push the button, wait for the water to heat (quicker than a stove top), then put your favorite leafy items in the handy hole in the lid and cap it off to let it steep. You can even set it to hold warm for you, if you prefer your hot beverages... well, hot. The infuser is removable from the lid, so if you just want to heat up some water, you can do that too. It also has a handy chart to tell those of us tea duffers how much leaf to use for the amount of water (which can be seen by looking at the very distinct volume markers on the pitcher. I gave this thing 5 stars, because I do think it's a great product, but dinged it on the easy to clean. The pitcher has a lot of electronics on it. It looks like the heating element is built in. Because of this, they recommend that you don't submerge it to clean it, which means basically wiping out the pitcher, and occasionally running it through the recommended descaling process. The infuser basket is basically a metal tube with holes in it, which gets the job done, but because of the size, it can be a bit of a struggle to get all of the particulates out of it. Being detachable helps though. Overall though, this thing does what it says it does, does it well, and is very convenient to have around. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants a countertop water heater and leaf steeper.

I am really loving this Mecity Tea Kettle. I like to choose temps and it comes with 9 presets you can scroll through, or you can set your own temp. And then it has a 2-hour keep warm feature that works great. It remembers what it was doing when you take the kettle off to pour and set it back down. You can turn off the beeper, which is nice. I think I have to do it again if I unplug it. The tea insert is great because the mesh or the holes in the metal are very fine and the tube reaches quite low in the pot. Sure beats the click and boil versions of electric tea kettles. The only thing it seems that you cannot do is change the Keep Warm time to less than 2 hours. There are kettles that allow you to change the Keep Warm time from a default. I don't see it in the instructions on this one and I haven't figured anything out. But, that's okay with me and I love it. Also, it holds a lot of water. One tip: If you are planning on heating water and then steeping tea, you need to put the tea insert on (it attaches to the inside/underside of the lid) BEFORE you heat up your water. Then you just open the small tea-access lid to drop your loose-leaf or bags into the tea infuser. Then you just wait. Or you can set the Keep Warm to a specific temperature - to the DEGREE. I hope you like yours, too!

Resistente, calienta el agua muy rápido, tiene varias opciones para calentar. Es la mejor de todas las que estuve comparando en la plataforma