Advice on electric kettles needed

For the past 10 years or so I have bought a basic Argos own brand kettle for about £10 which has always worked well and we are in a very hard water area

Recently, I bought a white honeycomb Russell Hobbs kettle for just over £20 on special offer in the local Co-op. It doesn't seem overly noisy and boils quickly. This one now £26:

www.argos.co.uk/product/2151050?clickPR=plp:2:7

Black and grey colours available with matching toasters.

I currently have a very trendy looking Tesco job which cost about £20. We have dreadfully hard water and have decided that cheap and replaced more often is the way to go.

The only thing I would be guided on is weight. My old kettle worked fine but was too heavy, bought a plastic one in Sainsburys but can’t remember how much. Very often bargains to be had in supermarkets or Argos.

I have the same one as SilverBrook had it a couple of years. Light weight and not too noisy. Clear view of water level.

I bought a Bosch kettle - can't remember how much though. There's a select facility to choose temperature of water from 70 degrees up to boiling point plus a 'keep hot' feature.

I love my beautiful kettle but it wasn't cheap.
Mine is a Dualit Classic.

This might be useful:
www.quietmark.com/products/awarded-products/kitchen/kettles

Look for as high a wattage as possjble. Consider if you really need 1.5 litres for anything. Water + kettle.can be quite.heavy. However if you prefer to boil a saucepan full of water in the kettle for.pasta or veg, a larger capacity will save you time.I

Back in the old days, when kettles had the heating element visible in the bottom and they didn't have a thermostat, so you had to keep watch and unplug it when it was ready, I'm sure they weren't as noisy. I remember being surprised by the noise when I first heard one of the modern, upright, flat-bottomed kettles heating up.

My lovely stainless steel Russel Hobbs kettle gave up the ghost a few weeks ago. Mr M went and bought a cheap Pifco from B & M... You can hear it boiling in the next county and it is slow, slow. But it was only £15 I'd say, don't buy a Pifco...

(I'm buying the next electric kettle. )

When our kitchen was re- vamped, several years ago, I bought a Dualit kettle and toaster.
After some time, the kettle switch broke. Dualit wouldn't send a replacement, I would have had to send it beck to be repaired. So since then , we have bought a cheaper models.
This was a shame, as I bought Dualit , thinking they could be easily repaired.
On the other hand, the element on the toaster, gave up the ghost. Asked a very handyman friend, if he could fix it. Yeah, he did, and it is now still going strong 28 years later.
Love my Dualit toaster, just wish the slots were bigger.

The best advice I can give you is to take the one with the highest wattage. It’ll be fast. Noise? I can’t help.

Auntieflo my Dualit stopped clicking on for my husband early in the morning when it was very cold last year.
They have a fixed fee for repair (£40 I think). Ours self-corrected after a couple of weeks and has been fine since- so it hasn't needed it.

I would stick with ours as I really love it and also it can be repaired - and it is very fast.

And yes, the old style kettles are definitely quieter, JackyB.

Our Kettle is quiet and quick to boil, it's a Sage bought it in John Lewis.

Astitchintime

I bought a Bosch kettle - can't remember how much though. There's a select facility to choose temperature of water from 70 degrees up to boiling point plus a 'keep hot' feature.

That sounds very like my Haden one (made in the UK) which is also cordless. It has settings for several different temperatures, and a keep-hot facility which is useful for a hot second cup without needing to reboil the kettle. It also has pretty little blue lights inside the totally see-through jug. I forget how much it was - not cheap.

We have had 3 Dualit kettles but to be honest they all didn’t last that long so we went for a Ninja one just before Christmas and it is very noisy. We spent ages choosing it and I don’t think I would recommend it.
I liked the Dualit design but the lids are hard to remove and the switch broke on all of them.
Maybe a cheaper option is preferable 🤷‍♀️

We bought a Dualit as it could be repaired; the switch kept clicking off and the cost of sending it back and getting it fixed wasn't encouraging. (Considerably more than NotSpaghetti was quoted) I've put it at the back of the cupboard, and bought a Russel Hobbs stainless steel which is brilliant, and cost about twenty five pounds from Amazon. I may get the Dualit fixed at some point as it matches the toaster, but sometimes my in built 'customer resitance level' clicks in and I can't bring myself to pay what I feel is too much, whatever the item.

Mine is a Philips , not expensive been going for a couple of years , it’s so quiet I think I’ve forgotten to switch it on , but loud enough when it boils , so I can hear it

I have a Quiet Kettle from Russel Hobbs it’s brushed steel and quick.
It matters because I have a through lounge kitchen in my flat and I like tea.

The old kettle used to roar 🦁 and I had to turn the volume on the tv right up to drown the noise. ( apparently limescale build up can make them more noisy too)

So far so good, it is also fairly light weight, the only improvement to it would be a cool touch exterior, same with the matching toaster.

About twenty years ago when I worked at the hospital, we needed a new kettle for the ward kitchen so someone went out and bought an *Opera Kettle*……yes it “sang”, -a high pitched hideous noise on reaching boiling point.
What an excellent idea that was (*not*)so everyone else knew when someone was making a cuppa.🫨

We haven’t got a kettle. I get my boiling water instantly from the tap and I love it.

LovesBach. Toasters are often cited as one of the most user repairable items.

I’m always being informed by email about repair workshops that are setting up in my area so perhaps try searching out one of them, they show how to mend other stuff as well.

I think these initiatives could catch on if they’re well enough attended.
Dualit is a top brand, I would expect better.

Ours is a Breville, it was about £60 a few years ago, it's quiet and boils quickly.

I hope it lasts but I would buy another if it doesn't.

I live in a very hard water area so buy cheap ones which last about 18 months as I use my kettle a lot.

Latest is a Tesco basic model I paid £15. It is noisy but it boils quick. I do filter the water now though before filling the kettle, so it may last longer?

I stick to Lidl and Aldi.
Their products are always good for quality and cheaper than many others.
I've never even noticed the noise a kettle makes. Perhaps I've been lucky but it's never bothered me.