Instant hot/boiling taps for the kitchen

[endecotp]

...still loving my hubimex kettle...

On the subject of kettles - can anyone recommend a cheap left-handed one?

I'd better explain. When we were all young, kettles were ambidextrous. Then they started putting water level gauges on them, most often on the side where you can see it while holding it in your right hand under the tap, and facing away from you if you hold it in your left.

Some have gauges under the handle, where it is equally difficult to see for everyone. (That's what my current one, which is on its last legs, is like.)

Then a few have gauges on both sides. I think that's what I'd like to buy next time. Unfortunately, when I look on e.g. the Argos website, the photos all show one side only and I can't tell if there is another gauge on the other side. The text also doesn't help.

I went in to John Lewis where I can actually look at things in person and yes they do have some with two gauges but no I'm not paying that much.

So: has anyone got a basic-but-functional kettle with water level gauges on both sides, that is still available to buy, that they can recommend?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

So: has anyone got a basic-but-functional kettle with water level gauges on both sides, that is still available to buy, that they can recommend?

Ours is entirely glass, apart from the base. You can easily see the level from any angle. Bought from middle of Lidl, with a well respected English name

 

[JohnD]

Makes tea taste awful according to swmbo.

Not according to me.

 

[opps]

Urban myth. https://www.kinetico.co.uk/blog/post/can-drink-softened-water

Mind they do say not to use for babies and if on low sodium diet.

Which would include people such as my customer who had just had a kidney transplant...

 

[endecotp]

Ours is entirely glass, apart from the base.

Hmm - do you have to constantly clean it? The ones I’ve seen in homes have been very grotty looking, but I guess that was in a hard water area, which I am not.

 

[JohnD]

Which would include people such as my customer who had just had a kidney transplant...

luckily that's quite unusual. It must be quite awkward for them, not being able to drink milk or eat normal bread.

 

[opps]

luckily that's quite unusual. It must be quite awkward for them, not being able to drink milk or eat normal bread.

I don't know about that. I just recall him being pee'd off because the plumber didn't tell him that the main drinking water tap was no longer mains water. My customer only discovered that he was weeks away from requiring dialysis after moving into the new property. He worked pretty high up in HR. Each time he changed jobs, his new employer would send him for a health check. When he moved into the new property, the new GP asked what was being done about his kidney failure. My customer previously had no idea that he had kidney failure.

Had his plumber been competent, he would have left a clean water supply, or at a minimum, offered the option.

Fortunately, within a week of discovering that he had kidney failure, he received one from his sister.

 

[opps]

Hmm - do you have to constantly clean it? The ones I’ve seen in homes have been very grotty looking, but I guess that was in a hard water area, which I am not.

In hard water areas, every kettle I have come across with a plastic window ends up leaking. I suspect that may be down to the descaling products used.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Hmm - do you have to constantly clean it? The ones I’ve seen in homes have been very grotty looking, but I guess that was in a hard water area, which I am not.

Occasionally, yes - we just soak it in acetic acid.