DeLonghi Kmix 54-Ounce Kettle, White

Love this kettle! Its solid, works fast and efficiently, and is very stylish. I love the color choices. The all metal construction (including the base) makes the kettle very solid and not easy to tip over. The outside gets a little hot, but is comparable to a plastic kettle. I'm a Brit so my kettles get industrial strength usage!!! lol. So far this one works like a charm. I chose this kettle because of all the 5 star reviews - and it lives up to its name. Definitely worth paying the extra dollars. Update: Now had this kettle for 10 months and works and looks as good as new....must have over 2 thousand "boils" by now the way I use it for everything. Update 2..now Jan 2015 and my kettle works as good as the day I bought it. The piece of plastic that covers the water line on the inside of the kettle came lose, but it is just cosmetic..doesn't serve a purpose as far as I can tell. My kettle has just a little scaling on the inside which is normal. No leaks as yet. I agree its a bit noisy but that's normal with kettles with a powerful heating element. The kettle has got a little pricey, but still worth the money. Love the range of colors.

Update: November 2012 Like a few other reviewers - this kettle is now leaking from the on/off switch. Six months old - so within warranty - but it leaks. I'll attach photos - but this is now going from a 5 star review to 2 stars. May 2012: Our old kettle had a broken switch - so it's off to Amazon to look for something new. We chose this kettle primarily because it was red - but also because it was good looking and nice and simple. There is one switch - ON/OFF - and one additional catch to open the lid. We were impressed with how quiet it was during boiling - and it took around six minutes to boil a full kettle of cold tap water to a rolling boil. Pros: - looks good - simple - great design - quiet Cons: - pricy

Love this kettle. Looks good and does what it's supposed to. What more do you need? I got the stainless version but it comes in a wide variety of colors. Red would have been my second choice. It does get very hot to the touch but it's a kettle that boils water. Hello?!?! You don't go around touching pots and pans on your kitchen stove, do you? A bit on the spendy side but worth every penny in my opinion. Had mine for nine months now and have had no problems with it whatsoever. It's used every day and seems to be well built. No leaks here. I recommend it.

This kettle works really well, boils fast, it is quiet and keeps the water hot for over 20 minutes. The handle had acrack on the front and around the window - but this could have been a one off? The kettle looks great in my kitchen - I have the white one. UPDATE. After thinking it was a one off with the cracked handle I received a replacement from DeLonghi. Now this kettle has the Same cracks forming all over the handle. It feels like the handle is about to snap off. The lid flies open for no reason when pouring, i've already burned my foot when water came out the opened. lid I will not buy this design again. This is a major issue. Update 2018. See photo. This is very dangerous in my opinion. Handle snapped off when I picked it up....it had fresh boiled water. I would never buy this kettle again

Electric kettles rock. More precisely, big electric kettles with auto-off at boiling (rather than "boil dry") rock. Anyone who does not have a hot water dispenser built into their sink would probably benefit from having one, as it is much safer and easier than leaving water to boil on the stove while doing other things. I had a DeLonghi of this model type for years and it finally just died. I do not consider that a mark against it at all, as it lived a good, long life, of me turning it back on to boil multiple times per day for tea, plus regular use in the kitchen to get pasta water, etc. boiling faster. And then I bought this one as a gift for someone else a few months back, since I loved mine so much. But now that I have looked to replace my just-dead DeLonghi, I am learning that the playing field on these has changed, and has improved greatly for consumers. This DeLonghi kettle was the very best as of a few years ago when I originally bought mine; nearly all of the rest were made out of cheap plastic, and looked crummy. And I wanted interesting colors, instead of white or stainless, so that basically left me with these DeLonghi kettles, which was fine, if pricey. However, the marketplace has interestingly surpassed DeLonghi in the meantime. And now much cheaper electric kettles with at least the same functionality, often more, can be bought in stylish metal colored trims, for a third to half of the price! (That is pretty great; how often, outside of computer products, does that really happen so quickly?!) As such, even though the DeLonghi is a fine kettle, it is harder to recommend the DeLonghi's anymore, given that the price-to-benefit "value ratio" is isn't nearly as good relative to its competition as it used to be a few years ago. -------------------------------------------------------- ---- FEATURES TO CONSIDER ---- -------------------------------------------------------- - AUTO OFF AT BOIL -- Auto off at boil is vastly better than "boil dry, where it will boil away all of the water if you can't get to it right away. Both perform an essential safety function: with either, you cannot burn your house down because you left your water on the stove to boil. But boil dry fails on the convenience front where auto off succeeds: it allows you to start your water, go do something else, then come back to it any time you are ready to use the water. Sure, it might have cooled down a little in the interim, but just hit the button again, and in a minute or so, you will be good to go again. --- INSULATED OR "DOUBLE WALL" Exterior -- The DeLonghi's do fine on this front -- my tea will be warm enough for me if I get to it within 45 minutes or so -- but so do many others that look good in the $25-$50 range. --- DIGITAL TEMPERATURE SETTINGS -- This is where the huge innovations have come in: even some of the lower priced electric kettles allow you to set the exact temperature that you want, or one of a few pre-set temperatures -- rather than having only one set temperature, like this DeLonghi. For many purposes, but especially for tea drinkers (where since different types of teas are ideally steeped at different water temperatures) that is a huge benefit. It used to be that only $150+ models had that; but the Kettle I just bought to replace my DeLonghi with has 4 pre-set temperature settings, and it cost less than $30 (and reviews of it were very good.) --- KEEP WARM SETTINGS --- Different companies call this different things, but the idea is that it will keep your water hooving around a certain temperature for a set amount of time (often two hours). The DeLonghi doesn't have that, and I wish it did. -- 1.6+ gallons -- Most people won't need that much usually. But it is nice to have the option. Plus it helps to have big capacity for cooking, since I will fill it up when I start water at a boil on the stove, and then add to it when it hits a boil. Speeds stove-top boiling up considerably, and big capacity helps with that. --- NO PLASTIC / ALL STAINLESS interior --- There is perhaps legit concern out there about boiling water regularly with plastic sitting in it. No one really knows for sure that it would be problematic, and it would probably depend to some extent on the particular type of plastic used. But either way, it seems avoid to avoid kettles that have a lot of plastic in them. Some do not have any (Secura 1.8 Quart is worth looking into, especially because it is black, and looks fairly similar to this one.). And some, like the DeLonghi, have a strip of water as an indicator on it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- SOME ALTERNATIVE MODELS TO CONSIDER ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Secura 1.8 Quart Stainless Steel Cordless Electric Water Kettle Double Wall Cool Touch ExteriorSecura. Currently under $40 on Amazon. Has all of the above attributes, looks similar(ish) to this Delonghi. And is way cheaper, plus has a digital temp setting on it. Ovente KS88R Temperature Control Stainless Steel Electric Kettle, 1.7 L. This is what I bought (in red, though, not black) for under $30 on Amazon. Has all of the above featured, except that it has the same kind of plastic water indicator that is on the DeLonghi, which means it doesn't have an all stainless interior. But it has a temp setting, and a two-hour "stay warm" setting, both of which I am super excited to have as a tea drinker. (I will wait to post a review of it there until I have given it a good spin; reviews on it were 4-ish stars, which was very good without being perfect; not bad for a $27 tea kettle.) I found one that worked for me, so I didn't look into all of the alternatives. But if you look for those kettles that look attractive to you and are at a price point you like, and then narrow it down according to the list of features above that you care about, you will likely get a great, daily-life-improving kettle out of it. Keep in mind that electric kettles make outstanding gifts, too, especially for older people (and/or younger absent minded professor types and/or busy parents, like myself!) where the safety of stove-top boiling is in question. If you know a tea drinker without an electric kettle, it may just be the kind of product they would have never thought they needed, and then realize they can't live without. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- TIP on POST PURCHASE CLEANING ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Even though we have a water softener, we still get gray-ish hard water build up inside of it every couple of weeks (i.e., gritty gray build up). This mortified me at first. Then I realized that it would happen in any kettle, and all it takes is boiling some lemon juice (I usually do about 1/4 lemon juice to 3/4 water) and let it sit for awhile in there, then pour it out, and it is good as new! (and unlike vinegar, the lemon juice will make your kitchen smell nice :-)

Nice looking kettle. Was looking for reliability and so far that's what we have. Not cheap but it is a quality item. All the cheap kettles we have owned have been hopeless.