A Gourmet Kettle?!!? Who Knew!
My partner is a Nutritionist and so is always reading about new and interesting ways to eat and drink healthily. This results in an incredibly varied dinner most evenings, and in the last year or so teas!

I have High Blood pressure and have had so for years, and she suffers from High Cholesterol, we both don’t particularly like taking medication, and certainly, dont want to get to a point whereby we need more and SO…. we have been looking to Herbal Teas to help BOTH.

And so… what may you ask is the relevance of all this to the AEG Gourmet Kettle???? Well with Herbal Teas you can just boil a standard kettle and brew your tea as you would with a PG Tips tea bag… but if you do some research, there is actually a LOT of evidence that shows you get more benefits from your Tea if it is brewed at the perfect temperature, and this varies depending on the brew you are making.

This is NOT a cheap Kettle, and for a normal every day it is overkill for sure! But if you are drinking Herbal, or Gourmet teas, and want the PERFECT brew for both taste and nutrient extract, then you will not find a more premium kettle to do it 🙂

Heating
I like the idea of choosing what heat you need for various drinks

Excellent kettle
This is best kettle we have ever had. It looks great, simple and smart on my kitchen worktop. Dark grey makes water marks invisible. I like the kettle top, that is easy to open and pour water. At the same time it is easy to clean it. Keep heat function is awesome. I love that you can set the temperature and it stays warm for quite a long time. So many different temperature options, the temperature is shown as it heats up gradually so it starts from 40c and gets up to the desired temperature you wish . I also like the keep warm feature which not more boiling hot water that burn my childs mouth. The kettle is heats up quickly and so quiet. I am extremely impressed with this kettle and is my new favourite appliance.

Substance over style.
I have to be honest. I don’t think this kettle is attractive at all. I’m disappointed by the way it looks but it’s a really great kettle in terms of function. I’ve never seen a kettle with adjustable temperatures before. It’s really handy for making hot drinks with as I know that using boiling water can scald coffee beans and make the drink taste more bitter, so having the option to get your water heated to a more appropriate temperature is really great.

love i
Im happy i ordered it , it looks good and works well which is important of course temperature is just righ

Noisy, slightly ugly kettle with very useful temperature control
The look of this kettle has divided opinion in this house. In a way it looks quite elegant, but there’s something about the large (kitchentop-hogging) black base unit that looks rather like the bottom of a 1960’s era Dalek. In black- sorry ‘graphite gray’- it’s a bit oppressive, and it won’t suit all kitchens.

Functionally though, the temperature control is a really key useful feature. The display showing the current temperature of the water lets you decide whether to reboil the kettle when you realise you needed two cups of tea instead of one (which happens surprisingly often in this house), and the ability to boil to a specific level is really handy for situations where you just want a specific level of warm rather than boiling. It’s an energy-saver, though if all you normally do with your kettle is boil water to 100 degrees for normal cups of tea, you won’t really make use of that feature very much.

It’s surprisingly loud, as kettles go. Somehow the base unit acts as a bit of an amplifier for the bassier tones, it’s a kettle that grumbles and groans like a long earthquake, not a very hissy sound yet really quite noisy.

It’s also not all that quick, surprisingly, despite it being fairly power-hungry at 2400W. As with another kettle we used to have (that wore out), getting to 90 degrees is fairly quick, it’s the last little push that seems to take the longest time.

I think this kettle really only makes sense for people who will really make use of the variable temperature targeting and keep warm functions. For more regular household use, it’s overkill and somewhat overpriced. For me it’s somewhere between 3 stars and 4 stars.

Works perfec
Kettle comes arrive well packaged. The kettle itself is graphite grey, so basically grey but it does have some sparkles to it which is an attractive design, Its very easy to use.

The start stop is as you expect, like you on / off leaver. The up and down button increase and decrease the temp selection and the final button is a keep warm button. Up top on the kettle is a button to press which pops open the lid.

Now the highlight of this kettle and why it commands a premium is the number of temps you can select. 7 options is plenty and allows you to brew teas or warm water without boiling then adding cold water etc to balance things out, One person in house loves warm water with honey, so for them 60 degrees is good. Others, green tea at 80 degrees and others 100 degree for there black coffee, the ability to select temp works wonders here.

Now the stay warm button can be used to select any temp at 95 degrees and under. Makes sense really as at 100 degrees the water is boiling away. so you will need to drop the temp button down one if your at 100 degrees before being able to use stay warm.

A neat thing is if you select 100 degrees for example, the LED’s will light up as the water reach’s that temp. So if you select 100 but then want 80 degrees, simply take the kettle off / stop it once the 80 degree light shows.

Now its not the quickest boiler. Tap water (pretty cold at the moment to be fair) took 3 mins to heat up 1 litre to 100 degrees and turn off. Lower temps obviously were hit quicker as it takes longer for each step towards the end.

Either way, want a kettle with lots of temp options, you cannot go wrong here.

It looks good does what it says on label brillia
We like everything about this kettle no more to say now saving up for the matching toaste