Making tea or coffee? We put electric kettles to the test to find the best tool for the job.
is the best variable-temperature kettle I found. It has six temperature settings, each indicated by a button labeled with both the temperature and the corresponding beverage—green tea, black tea, et cetera. It boils fast and accurately, and can maintain the water temperature for up to 30 minutes.Precision Electric Kettle. It can be set to temperatures in increments of five degrees between 120 and 212°F, while the Cuisinart goes down only to 160.
These days, most kettles are"cordless" models: The kettle itself is freestanding, with a heating element inside that's activated when the kettle is resting on its base, which is plugged into the wall. Cordless kettles are easy to pick up and pour or carry across the room, while their corded counterparts can be awkward to pour, and impossible to move unless they're unplugged every time. At this point, no corded kettle seems worth getting, and I tested only cordless models.
The Cuisinart is also the only kettle I tested that includes such helpful, clear temperature labeling to help keep track of which one goes with what tea. Serious tea enthusiasts may not need that, or may want to use a broader range of temperatures, but for the rest of us, it makes brewing great hot beverages a no-brainer.
The Cuisinart has a handsome stainless steel body, with a lid that pops open with the push of a button—which I much preferred to the tight lids I had to pry off manually from some kettles, while the hot water sloshed dangerously inside. The opening isn't the widest of all I tested, but wide enough for me to fit a hand in easily and reach every inch of the interior.
Besides the Cuisinart, most other kettles I tested are adjustable in five-degree increments. One allows you to adjust one degree at a time, but I didn't think this was necessary. Most tea-brewing guidelines give you a range of temperatures, or stick to general numbers, like those on the Cuisinart kettle.
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