1.7 Litre 360 Cordless Kettle in White Dual

Love this kettle just received it and was amazed at the light show - like pink sparklers effect when heating the water and blue sparkles once boiled.
The other really great thing about this kettle is how quiet it is - had to feel the glass to make sure it was heating up - obviously when close to the boil it made a boiling noise but that was it. Maybe my previous kettle, a Kenwood was very noisy but had a friend over and even she was amazed at the silence.
My previous kettle was 3.0 KW but on testing both they seemed to take the same time to boil the same amount of water???
I wouldn't hestitate to recommend this kettle and have since found out it's a British company WTG buy British!!!!

This kettle is OK, and has its pros and cons. For the pros, it is light enough for even my mum to hold (she has mobility problems) and the button under the handle easily flips up the lid for filling. The cord is long enough to allow the kettle to be a reasonable distance from the wall socket (too often, cords are so short that sockets are at risk of being enveloped in steam, when the kettle boils)). The red light lets you know that the kettle is switched 'on', but you only have to listen and you can hear the water 'bubble', so this is a bit unnecessary. The built-in filter stops any limescale spoiling your cuppa, and the balance of the kettle keeps it steady when you pick it up, even when it is full of water. The cons? Well, what is the purpose of the blue light that is on, constantly, when it is connected to the mains? It might look pretty, in the dark, and you can then easily find the kettle, but how often will you make a cuppa in the pitch darkness? It just seems a gimmicky waste of electricity, no matter how small the amount used. The lid switch, located on the underneath of the handle, is very easy to 'trigger' when you hold the handle and pick up the kettle. My son has done this, twice, and got flicked with very hot water droplets from underneath the inside of the lid. Luckily, he is a grown man and quickly shook off the hot droplets, but what if it was a younger person, or my elderly mum? It could make them drop the kettle in an automatic reaction to the hot water touching their skin, and that would be disastrous! A final con is the fact that the mimimum amount of water you can boil is 0.5L; this is two mugs worth (I just checked!). As I often make just the one cuppa, that seems an awful waste of electricity, boiling twice as much as I need. If I look back at what I have written, the cons outweigh the pros. Would I buy another one? The simple answer is "no". It's fairly cheap, it looks OK, it boils water........ I would/should pay more for a better product (lesson learned, eh?). UPDATE, ONE MONTH ON......... It is now one month later, and now some of the cheap 'chrome' coloured plastic that covers the outer top rim of the kettle, next to the flap lid, has started to peel off. We have to check our drinks, to make sure none has managed to get into the cups. I am going to buy a replacement kettle (obviously, NOT this brand!) and bin this one. I am generally very good at recycling and re-using, but I wouldn't even donate this kettle to a charity shop. That's not being disrespectful to charity shops but, if I don't feel safe using it for my own family, I wouldn't pass it on to anyone else. I have also dropped the rating from 3 stars, down to 2, and that's being over-generous!! BOXING DAY 2010 - FINAL UPDATE. This will be my final update, as I have totally given up on the darned kettle! My elderly parents came over for Christmas dinner and when I made my mum a cup of tea she ended up gagging on slivers of the cheap 'chrome' plastic that coats (partially, nowadays!) the rim, where the body of the kettle meets the lid (see previous mentions about the plastic coming off). I'd been putting off buying a replacement, especially with the extra Christmas expenses, but went to another retailer, today, and bought a Kenwood SJM271 brushed metal kettle. It looks like a good kettle, feels like a good kettle, even boils quickly - just like a good kettle! HEED MY WARNING - BUY A DECENT BRAND; YOU MIGHT PAY MORE, INITIALLY, BUT SAVE MONEY IN THE LONG RUN BY NOT HAVING TO BUY A REPLACEMENT A FEW WEEKS LATER, AND NOT HAVE THE PROBLEMS AND HAZARDS THAT BUYING A CHEAP KETTLE SUCH AS THIS HAS CAUSED, FOR US. Rating reduced, still further to a 1 (wish there was a lower number, that I could award). I have also emailed the Amazon seller and requested that I can return the item as it is obviously faulty (by design) and I hope to get a full refund. FINAL NOTE..... full refund received from seller.

Great - the blue/red light makes it much easier to see when the kettle is ready and it is very stylish.