Russell Hobbs Brushed Stainless Steel & Black Electric 1.7L Cordless Kettle (Fast Boil 3KW, Removable washable anti-scale filter, Push to open lid, Perfect pour spout) 20441

This is a great value good-looking and efficient kettle.It is made of stainless steel with a brushed finish. It has black plastic in the places where you are likely to touch it as it obviously gets quite hot so; the handle, the lid and the base. It’s quite a nicely designed object. It pours nicely with its well-engineered “perfect pour” spout.You can actually boil fairly small amounts of water in it which is good and it has “water window” so that you can accurately judge how much water you need to boil. Being a cordless kettle, it sits well on its base and can be rotated on it through 360 degreesIt has a concealed element and the insides of the kettle are smooth meaning that it’s easy to keep clean. If you live in an area with hard water, this makes it easier to remove any build up of limescale. Also, to prevent any loose limescale ending up in your drink, there is a filter on the spout which works reasonably well.I bought this kettle to replace another Russell Hobbs product which ended up (after many years of use) with a broken switch. That was a slightly more expensive version of this kettle that is described as “Quiet & Fast Boil”. Although it is true to say that the old kettle was a bit quieter to boil than this one, it had the disbenefit of being more difficult to clean inside and descale due to having a “diffuser” inside which was more prone to limescale build up.So unless the quiet boil feature is important to you, I would say that this cheaper model is better if you live in an area with hard water.Overall I have found this kettle to be well-suited to my needs. I don’t always need to boil much more than a cup of water so it’s good that it can do that pretty quickly. But it also has a good capacity of 1.7 litres for the times that I want to boil more.I definitely recommend this kettle but if you want the quieter version and don’t have hard water then the slightly more expensive model is also worth considering.

I trust the Russell Hobbs brand and always find their kettles to be reliable and of good quality.I’m giving four stars and not five because the style of on/off switch on the kettle has broken on our last two similar kettles (each time just outside the 24 month extended guarantee period), rendering otherwise perfectly working kettles useless. (The last Kettle was Russell Hobbs and the one before a different brand but with similar style switches). It is also very noisy when heating up.What I love is the easy opening lid for filling and the fantastic poring spout. It’s also a cool design which looks good on the worktop.I chose it because the price was good and it was made by a manufacturer I trust.

This Russell Hobbs stainless steel kettle has minimal plastic in touch with the water; it boils quickly; holds 1.7 litres and pours perfectly. Everything you need from a jug kettle. We’ve owned this kettle for about 6 months so far and it’s excellent and much better than a JL Everyday version we had before. It boils fast: 2 cups in well under a minute, and it’s really not that noisy – it’s probably noisier than a plastic kettle, but not an issue at all.My tip would be to boil it first and pour the water away, whilst it’s still quite warm, you can them remove the pointless red plastic cup measuring/indicator and the plastic scale filter (if you don’t want more plastic in contact with your boiling water). We always use filtered water in our kettle so there is hardly any scale at all over the past 6 months of use.It pours absolutely perfectly with no drips. The lid opens wide so it’s easy to fill from the tap or filter jug if that’s what you use. The switch seems fine, we rarely let it boil until it turns itself off anyway, so that’ll hopefully add to its longevity. The cordless base has a reasonable amount of flex which can be coiled away underneath. It’s a pity the water level indicator is only on one side, but it’s pretty easy to get used to and work out exactly the correct amount to boil for however many cups you are making.It’s obviously not worth the ludicrous £42+ RRP, but is often on a good offer, we purchased it for well under half the list price on Amazon.