When my travel tea kettle began to lose it's durability a year or so ago, I knew I was going to have to replace it soon. But I kept on using it until the knob on the lid broke and made replacement immediately necessary for safety reasons.
Search as I did, I could not find one that was the same style, which I loved, was the perfect size and worked perfectly for at least 20 years. So this is what I bought via Amazon and have used on at least 3 trips since delivery.
The top half of the body of the kettle is made of silicone, so it collapses to half as tall when empty (and dry) for ease of travel. It is a bit heavier than the kettle I was replacing, but size-wise, it still fits into the same small bag I use for my tea travel kit.
It boils water faster than the old one, and turns itself off once it reaches a full roiling boil, a feature my old one failed to include, so that's an improvement. I really like this for travel and there does not seem to be any silicone flavor added to the water, which was my only concern with buying a silicone tea kettle. As soon as it arrived at my home, I tested it out for any possible taste contamination as I would have returned it had that been the case.
In the picture below the water is still roiling and the kettle had just turned itself off, hence the red light was already off when I shot the picture. But you can see the uneven level of the water line; that's because the water is still boiling. This whole process takes less than two minutes from the time I plug it in!
Search as I did, I could not find one that was the same style, which I loved, was the perfect size and worked perfectly for at least 20 years. So this is what I bought via Amazon and have used on at least 3 trips since delivery.
The top half of the body of the kettle is made of silicone, so it collapses to half as tall when empty (and dry) for ease of travel. It is a bit heavier than the kettle I was replacing, but size-wise, it still fits into the same small bag I use for my tea travel kit.
It boils water faster than the old one, and turns itself off once it reaches a full roiling boil, a feature my old one failed to include, so that's an improvement. I really like this for travel and there does not seem to be any silicone flavor added to the water, which was my only concern with buying a silicone tea kettle. As soon as it arrived at my home, I tested it out for any possible taste contamination as I would have returned it had that been the case.
In the picture below the water is still roiling and the kettle had just turned itself off, hence the red light was already off when I shot the picture. But you can see the uneven level of the water line; that's because the water is still boiling. This whole process takes less than two minutes from the time I plug it in!