Hamilton Beach 1 L Stainless Steel Electric Kettle 40998
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Making your morning tea and instant oatmeal just got easier with the quick and convenient Hamilton Beach One-Liter Stainless Steel Electric Kettle. With the push of a button, you can heat water faster than in a microwave and safer than a stovetop kettle. The powerful rapid-boil system provides fast heat so within minutes you’ll have boiling water ready for everything from hot chocolate to instant soup. Kettles are safe and easy to use. Simply remove the kettle from the electric base for cord-free serving. A water-level window allows you to see how much water is left in the kettle. The automatic shutoff feature with boil dry protection keeps the kettle from scorching. The easy pour spout comes with a removable mesh filter to keep scale deposits from leaving the kettle.
Hamilton Beach 1 L Stainless Steel Electric Kettle:
- Faster than a microwave safer than a stovetop kettle
- Cord-free serving
- Auto shutoff with boil-dry protection
- Easy-pour spout with removable mesh filter
- Concealed heating element
- Water-level window
- Push-button lid
- Illuminated on/off switch
- Removable mesh filter
- 1-year limited warranty
- Model# 40988
Reviews
- I received the Hamilton Beach electric kettle to review. The product came in a compact box, not taking up a lot of space. Upon opening the box, the product was nicely packed and thus, no damage was apparent on the product. With the recent news on how “bad” the microwave is for boiling water, I thought I’d give this electric kettle a try! I am glad that I did! Pros: The size of the kettle is easy to handle. When filled with water, it is not too heavy for me to carry (I have weakness on one side of the body so I’m always thinking of things that are easier to handle). The kettle heats up quickly – about 3 minutes to boil for 1.6L of water. There is an automatic shut off switch when the water is ready so no need to worry about over-boiling. Yes, the water is hot enough! The kettle has a mesh filter so you can put loose tea leaves inside and not worry about having leaves in your cup. The handle is cool to touch, even with the boiling water (the kettle itself is hot so watch out!). Overall, the kettle is easy to set up and clean! Cons: The kettle has very little cons. There are two trivial things that bothered me. First of all, the water level window is right behind the handle. Therefore, it’s not very easy to see how much water has been filled up unless you stop the running water and hold up the kettle in front of you without holding the handle. The second thing, the opening of the kettle is not very big; especially since the lid cannot be removed. I have very little hands so I can easily put my hand inside to clean it, but if you have medium size hands or larger, I would not recommend trying to stick your hand inside to clean the kettle – use a bottle brush instead. Overall: This kettle is convenient and easy to use! I would definitely recommend it for tea, hot chocolate, drip coffee, and ramen!
- Cannot say anything negative to say about this kettle. It is very fast to bring water to a boil. Faster than a microwave. Stainless steel is good quality and thick. Not easily scratched or dented. The plastic parts are also great quality. The lid button works great, pops open, and very easily snaps closed. The power button glows orange when turned on and turns off when the water reaches a boil. A great feature. The base is well made and kettle sets easily on top. The cord is about 24 inches long. The filter on the spout is very easily easy to remove and just snaps back on after cleaning. The kettle is great for broth, coffee and tea bags. I did make tea in the kettle, after coming to a boil in less than two minutes, I let the tea set for another minute, and the tea was perfect.
- When you’re dealing w/ the heat and humidity on the east coast, the last thing you’re thinking about drinking is hot anything. So mid-Summer isn’t the greatest time to try out this product. It doesn’t matter that you can have fresh brewed tea or coffee in minutes when it’s EXTRA hot and muggy all day every day. It feels like it’s 1000° around here. But, then you remember that ice exists. Hello, Iced Tea. How ya doing, Iced Coffee? This kettle is very simple to use. The water measurement guide is right there under the handle so you can easily see the max water line. You sit it on the little heating element, flick the switch and let it do it’s thing. I kinda/sorta timed it and it was piping hot in less than three minutes. That may vary according to the amount of water you’re heating up. I assume that if you’re just heating up a single cup of water, it would probably be faster. After you’re done the cord wraps neatly and securely in the bottom of the heating element. It’s relatively tiny, so it can fit anywhere on your counter, a cabinet shelf or on your desk. It’s cute too, the stainless steel looks good. I highly recommend this Hamilton Beach Electric Kettle. It will get used a lot this summer for Iced tea/coffee making purposes, but I know that it will be used daily in the colder months.
- Item is as pictured with no surprises. It is stainless steel with a maximum capacity of 1.0L, it has three level readings on the container of 0.6L as a minimum level, 0.8L and a 1.0L maximum level. It takes 5 minutes to heat the water at which time the kettle shuts off. I thought this to be a good safety issue to eliminate any chance of overheating due to being left on too long after each use. On my first time using it I used a thermometer which had a 190 degree max temperature, that is what the first test showed me as the temperature of the water. I was concerned on how long it would keep a 190 degree temperature being it was no longer on so I waited 10 minutes and the temperature was still at 190 degrees. I waited another 10 minutes and the temperature only dropped to 170 degrees. I also tested using it several times in a row and it performed great, each time taking 5 minutes to reach 190 degrees and each time maintaining the temperatures mentioned above. This kettle would be great for travel, the dorm room and the office. Another great feature is that the heating element is separate from the kettle, the kettle just sets on top of the element and is heated thru a core. There is a removable filter for the spout that makes cleaning easy.
- I drink tea in the mornings and some times would like a second cup but don’t want to have to boil more water, so when I got this I thought it would be able to stay warm once it automatically shut off, but it cools off fairly fast, but then again it can boil pretty fast also. The Hamilton Beach 1 L Stainless Steel Electric Kettle is the perfect size for me. The element plate it sits on seems a little small and sometimes is difficult to find the center to sit it on and doesn’t seem very stable and would tip easily, so I wouldn’t trust it around kids, the stainless steel does get very hot so I wouldn’t touch it even the lid is hot to touch if you had to touch it to shut. It is nice that there isn’t a plug once removed from the plate thing. To me this is only good if you don’t have a stove or live in a dorm room and need to boil water other wise why not just use your stove, it doesn’t stay hot once shuts off so just takes up counter space, but if you need for someone that you don’t want to operate a stove or who would forget to shut it off then it would work great for them
- My old electric Kettle had worn out, so I was excited to get this Hamilton Beach Stainless Steel Electric Kettle which is really nice. It looks elegant enough to leave on the Kitchen Counter and I like that it comes with a Filter inside the Spout. The Label on the Box promises that this Kettle boils water faster than Stovetop, so I did the comparison. I used the measurement on this electric Kettle and poured 0.6 L in my old Enamel Stovetop Kettle and then filled this Electric Kettle to 0.6 L again and then started both at the same time. The Hamilton Beach Electric Kettle shut off with boiling water after 2:57 minutes, while my Enamel Kettle started whistling on the gas-stove after 4:03 minutes. So this Electric Kettle boils 0.6 L water faster by over a minute, which is great when you’ve got to rush in the Morning and every minute counts. There is really nothing to complain about this Hamilton Beach Electric Kettle. The Lid is attached and pops open by pushing the button, good for not loosing the Lid in the Morning rush. The measurement might be a bit hard to read since it’s a bit covered by the handle, so you have to jiggle the Kettle a bit and peek around the handle to see how much the Kettle is filled with water, but otherwise, I love this Kettle and would definitely recommend it.
- On the first day of trying out this electric kettle, it was great. The following day, I tried to press the button to open the cover, but it wouldn’t open. Cheap quality. I am very disappointment it.