Breville Crystal Clear Glass Tea Kettle Home Design Software For Mac
Nearly jumped on this deal, but with tax coming to nearly $200 makes it 'feel' like WAY too much for a tea kettle, no matter how much luxury or time saving it is. I'll stick to steeping tea in my tea pot with finer mesh.
I have used this kettle for 2 years. Purchased from Good Guys. Has been great up until now, and looks nice, but then, like others here, it started to not automatically shut off. I then noticed the handle, at the top ring connection has cracked, near the fill release button. The kettle is quite a solid, heavy unit, and this connection is very thin plastic, which takes all the weight. It looks like a fatigue issue, probably made worse by the heat.
Nevertheless it was a $100 kettle which only lasted 2 years, which is pretty rubbish, and out of warranty. This looks like a poor design to me, which could result in the handle dropping off with a full kettle of boiling water. I think Breville had a recall for a similar issue on the previous design. I don't think it has been rectified properly. Please check your kettle!
Very disappointing longevity. Purchased at. Purchased the Breville Crystal Clear in 2014 & it works perfectly every day, in fact it is so consistently good that i purchased 2 more for my daughters at the same time & they also function superbly. The Schott glass is made in Germany & is the best in the world. Due to this kettle, i purchased SCHOTT Solar Panels have a 25 year warranty (some are still working exceptionally well after 30 years, & still going strong!) This GERMAN MADE Solar Panel array is a top quality high efficiency unit that functions superbly all day, every day. I've owned my fair share of kettles over time, but I would have to say this is the best I have used. I've had it for over a year.
It is the quickest to boil. It has a very low level minimum so you are not having to fill it high when you are just making one tea or coffee. Although it does seem to boil for a few seconds longer than others I have had. I love that it is clear. People always ask for a hot drink at my house and I think it could be because they can see that the kettle is clean. When it discolours, as with all kettles, slice up a lemon and place it in the kettle, let it boil and leave the lemon and water in it overnight. In the morning pour out all contents and rinse.
This removes any deposits and makes it sparkle. I love that it is glass and would chose this material over plastic any day. I would highly recommend this kettle and loved it so much I bought the matching sesame toaster, which is also a fantastic product. This kettle is wonderful. It feels solid but not too heavy. It is easy to clean.
The handle stays nice and cool. When it starts to get noisy you can easily see the buildup on the bottom (the 'quiet boil technology' is basically a coating on the bottom that makes the boil finer and quieter, but scale buildup reduces the effectiveness), so chop up a lemon and boil that in there and leave it for a few minutes then wash it out and any buildup remaining will easily wipe away with a cloth. The outside cleans with simple spray and wipe. It looks great.
It boils quickly. But, as good as it is it has a design problem. I see now that there are a couple of different designs, but mine had the silver base and lid. This version has a black plastic circle on the silver lid that looks like a button but is actually just a heat resistant pad you use to push the lid back down after refilling when/if it's hot. The actual lid release button is almost hidden on the handle as it's silver on silver.
People who don't know this, try to open the kettle to fill it by pressing the black 'button'. When that doesn't work, they then try to physically force the lid open. I've seen different people do this at different times. One person almost managed to pull the whole lid assembly off the top of the glass.
The end result is - of course - the lid gets damaged. The first stage is the lid starts to stick when you try to open it - at this point the way to open it safely is to lightly tap the lid close to the handle and it will open. Again, people instead tend to try to force the lid which then eventually leads to the next stage. The second and final stage is when one side of the lid hinge breaks. It will still open, and will still appear to lock down.
However when one of the hinges is broken, when the kettle starts to boil the steam can force the lid slightly open. This releases the steam and prevents the kettle from reaching full boil which in turn means it doesn't switch off. To temporarily 'fix' this is a three part thing: - Get something heavy to put on the lid to stop it from opening - Make yourself a cup of tea and sit down.
Start researching for a new kettle. Do I recommend this kettle? Absolutely, but.only. if you are the only person to use it.
If other people are ever going to use the kettle then it will fail sooner or later. Unless you see them doing it, the first you'll know is when you try to use the kettle and find the lid has been damaged.
Danger time for our kettle was parties when 'helpful' people would try to fill the kettle. These are the same helpful people who do other things like pull off gas fuses on barbecues, put used wine glasses back on the table next to the clean glasses, randomly turn switches on/off, put food away in weird places etc.
Breville Crystal Clear Glass Tea Kettle Home Design Software For Mac Pro
You know the types. Collective sigh. Amazingly ours lasted almost five years, most of that time with a sticking lid until the hinge finally broke recently (yes, after a party), but it survived that long mainly because I frequently hovered around it and would show people how to open it properly. I almost bought another one to replace it, but I'm going to try a different brand - and I'm sad to have to do that, because it was/is actually a really good kettle.
But that lid really sucks, and I'm sick of having to protect it from people. Purchased at. Had a good innings with this kettle - 4 years. Towards the end it became very noisy and had trouble with the lid not opening automatically so has been replaced. It needs regular descaling to remove discolouration on the heating element/base, as with all clear kettles on the market.
A soak in water/vinegar and a wipe does the trick. It has a great 7 cup capacity, but be aware that it is pretty heavy to lift/pour at full capacity. Although I liked this kettle I have replaced it with a Sunbeam Maestro clear kettle this time, which is same capacity, slightly lighter, less expensive and easier to fill (with wider lid opening). When first purchased this kettle doesn't switch off until well after it's started boiling, wasting unnecessary power and I suspect, exposing the lid opening mechanism to a prolonged period of exposure to large volumes of super-heated steam causing it to fail after a few weeks of daily use.
The first sign of this is when the lid will self open at random. Complete failure of that lid mechanism is when you can't get it to close again at all necessitating the placement of a weighted object on top of the kettle lid to keep it closed. The other issue with the kettle is the handle. Over a period of time it becomes progressively loose at the top. It came away completely on our first kettle, luckily not whilst carrying it full of boiling water. Breville did replace it because it was still under warranty but the replacement now also has the loose handle problem and I'm wondering when it will give way completely again. If the replacement takes on the original's purchase date then I think we're out of warranty so we'll have to purchase another kettle.
It's a shame because this is a stylish kettle with a good quality German glass but the rest of the kettle must have been designed or put together by a coalition of the blind.
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