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[–] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Does anyone make a good kettle that has variable temps? Seems like most are on or off.

EDIT: Just gonna throw this here since a bunch of people were so helpful. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll have to check them out and post back here once I decide.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Hi - try the Cuisinart gooseneck kettle! Seriously, better than everything else suggested. Cheaper thank the Fellow.

    Warning - the beeps are annoying. It beeps once when you turn it on once when it starts to heat up, then three beeps when it has boiled to your specified temperature. Then a final beep to turn off the base. If you have people sleeping it's pretty annoying in a small area. I have seen YouTube videos about disabling the sound but I have not done so myself. $130 and I think it's worth it.

    It will do temperatures from 140° f to 205° f in 5° increments. And then boiling temperature 212° f of course

    https://www.cuisinart.com/digital-gooseneck-kettle/GK-1.html

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    We have a Fellow Stagg EKG for pour overs, and it works great.

    If the gooseneck spout isn't your cup of tea, it looks like they have a standard spout version too.

    The prices are not for the faint of heart.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Plus, with WiFi updates, Corvo EKG Pro evolves with your brewing needs, keeping your kettle up to date for consistent, top-tier performance.



    What the actual fuck...

    Why does a fucking kettle need wifi? What is complicated about boiling fucking water?! We've been doing this for millennia.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Uh, the one we have doesn't do any wifi. Turn the dual to set the temp and push it to heat to temp. Maybe that's what the "pro" stuff is about? And agreed, that's absolutely silly.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ok, yeah, definitely had an update since we bought a couple years ago. At least it looks like the wifi stuff is for firmware updates only.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Why does a kettle need firmware?! It does one thing. Heat water. It turn electricity on when water is below a temperature.

    Unless physics is getting updates on a regular basis, there is no good reason for a kettle to need anything except electricity.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm just throwing out there homekit integration and automation. You can open your door home from work and the kettle starts boiling. Or heats up before you get downstairs for morning coffee.

    Niche, but not useless.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Always seems to be a tradeoff for the ability to do that. For most uses I find it does ya well enough to use a probe thermometer and water it back to your desired temperature

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that's how I'm doing it now, you'd think someone would've slapped a rheostat and a calculator screen on one to let me adjust the temp...hell, may just do that myself

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It sounds reasonable when ya clunk it out there, but inspires a foreboding in me as though you were going to overvoltage a CRT monitor somehow during the process

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Probably depends on the area you live in. I am in EU and got myself a 4 temp setting glass kettle for 30eur in 2020. Some cheap no-name brand. It got battle-scarred from time. Bottom LED ring has only 2 LEDs working. There are cracks all over the plastic ring on the bottom with small chunks missing. But other than that, it works and does it's job as if I bought it yesterday.

    In the end, all of them work exactly the same so there is not exactly a much difference in some cheap ass one compared to say Tefal or similar mainstream brands. And 30 euro for 5+ years and thousands of hot beverages is more than fair in my opinion.

    Mine looks like this

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