Breville HotCup Hot Water Dispenser with 3 KW Fast Boil and Variable Dispense, 2.0 Litre, Gloss Black [VKJ318]

Love i
I bought this as I live alone, I don’t like the taste of reboiled water so only fill to the minimum level each time which seemed very wasteful. This is great, I can adjust the amount for different size cups as well.
I’ve recommended this to a friend for her elderly mother who struggled to lift a kettle, she loves it as well.
Maybe a bit expensive but I bought whilst on offfer.
No complaints from me.

Easy, quick, effective
Wasn’t sure on this after seeing some reviews but took a punt, and glad I did.
For one or two people this is so much easier than a kettle. First cup (mug size) takes about 45 secs, a second just after about 10 secs less. Adjustable volume works well, water boiling hot and it looks smart too. Would def go with at least 2L version.

Simply the Bes
I used one of these at a friend’s house and loved it but honestly the price put me off – after all it’s just a kettle right? WRONG ! New kitchen so finally decided I would treat myself and buy one – so glad I did – I love my Breville Hotcup and only wish I had brought one sooner – it looks really smart on the worktop, its is so easy to operate and in my experience no issues with any aftertaste – it really does boil quickly. Would thoroughly recommend this to anyone – if you are considering this then go for it – you will be so glad you did!

Brilliant item for older people, but don't last longer than 2 years!
This is the third one I’ve bought for my mum in maybe 5 years.
She is 91 and can’t pick up a kettle with arthritic hands.
They are brilliant, you only have to press a button to fill your cup with hot water.
She uses a small plastic jug to refill the water cavity as obviously to pick up the whole thing to refill it is very heavy for her.
Although I do like this, I do think it should last a bit longer than a couple of years (kettles last ages!!)
But unfortunately it is the cheapest of its kind (I’ve only ever found 1 other of this type and its much more expensive)
Amazon had a special offer on when I bought it so got it for 35, and in argos it was 45. So they’re not cheap!
Just wish they lasted longer.

Does what it says on the box.
Does everything that it claims. Have not needed to use my kettle since I bought it! Had to try it for different cup sizes and it would be useful to have volumes for each of the settings. It takes 45 seconds to boil on maximum setting, and 35 seconds on minimum setting. Excellent for one cup use, would still use my kettle to boil enough for a pot full of coffee or tea!

Great for a single cuppa
This is very useful for those who only need to make a single hot drink and is extremely useful for anyone who finds it difficult to safely lift a kettle of hot water. You simply fill the reservoir, set the volume for your favourite cup or mug, press the large button and away you go. Unlike the way most of us use a regular kettle the dispenser only heats the water you need so doesn’t waste energy heating water that stays in the kettle.

What A Lovely Cuppa!
We needed a new kettle and despite being a bit sceptical about whether we’d see any difference, we decided we’d give this a go. Ok, so this is just a kettle with a filter inside it (depending on which version you buy) but there are definite benefits. The kettle takes just 45 seconds to boil a mug of water, but because the kettle dispenses the exact amount of boiled water that you’ve set you can just leave your mug with your tea bag or coffee on the tray, press the dispense button and walk away rather than having to stand, wait and then pour. Being a Brita machine the filter works well, making a nice cup of tea even in a hard water area and it’s a nice looking machine. I would definitely recommend this machine.

This isn't Whoopie Goldberg's copper kettle.
We’ve been using the larger of the original non-filtered models since 2012, it’s gave us good service but the spring on the lid failed about a year ago, and then one of the LEDs failed about a month ago, and what with the years of accrued scale that’s progressively harder to remove (and these devices aren’t the easiest thing to descale), so we decided it probably was due a replacement due to the hassle of prying the lid open.

The filtered edition. The good first. The dispensing section is unchanged, so it seems to boil at around the same speed (probably a little faster given lack of age and scaling etc, but likely not enough to be notice). Stop and Go buttons and cup size are also same. The overflow drain section snaps into place, unlike the other model which merely rests over a nub, so it’s now more secure and makes it easier to move the whole thing to clean around and under it. The filter adds an extra layer of filtering, and we’re trying a dual filter approach, applying already-filtered water, and offsetting the replacement of this one by two week, so at most the water filter is only two weeks old, so we are getting less scaley cups than we would the end of the regular single-filter month cycle. No doubt someone will say double-filtered gives you cancer or makes the Earth square, but we’ll take our chances.

The downside: filling the thing. In our opinion lid is pretty rubbish. The obsession Brita has with the stupid, useless LED meter is baffling. It’s just a dumb 28-day countdown timer, and given the battery in them only lasts a couple of years anyway, and the entire thing is a sealed and as with the jugs, an irreplacable system, they add no value, just e-waste, and get in the way.

Yet in order to accomodate it, absolutely unncessarily in a product whose lifespan should FAR exceed the life of the rubbish meter, Breville have been forced to make the fill opening far smaller. So it’s much harder to fill it than the other models. You can’t really get at it adequately from the side, so you have to over the top of the front control panel and be really methodical; there’s not really any margin of error in one’s accuracy in pouring.

It also seems to have compromised the build quality: I’m not expecting the spring on this one to last nigh-on ten years like our old one did.

Next revision, do away with that damn pointless meter and just make it a robust proper, full-sized lid that is easy to fill. This is, after all, a kettle, not a water jug. And remember, because of the filter taking up a large amount of volume, you need to fill it ~three times as often.

This is a good product, but the replacing our vintage model due to a fiddly broken lid for this one, ironically the filling the thing is only marginally less fiddly.

Double-filtering’s great, but it’s not Angela Lansbury’s copper kettle either.

Excellent produc
Don’t know how we lived without this item. We have used it now for 13 months with no problems at all. Some say they have a problem with the taste but from the start we have had no issues. Tea and coffee taste great. This item does what it says; dispenses one cupful of hot water for tea and coffee heating only the water required for that one cup. I use for gravy, jelly, oxos and sauces. It doesn’t boil like a kettle but tea bags, loose leaf tea, instant coffee and fresh ground coffee taste better with the one cup. I use a kettle for visitors if there are more than 2, other than that it’s the one cup. It’s filled 4 or 5 times a day and is the best thing ever bought. It does splash a bit with certain mugs and the chrome front needs wiping a couple of times a day. I would prefer that part to be black. As I have arthritis I sometimes fill with a jug but can manage to lift the breville to the tap on good days. Hope it lasts a few years but will definitely replace when needed.

Great for a quick cuppa
This is probably my 4th Breville hot cup. Not because they keep breaking, but because my husband takes my old ones to work to use as he prefers these to the traditional kettle. I have looked at lots of kettles but keep going back to this model. It is easy to fill, pressing a button and the lid flipping up. it has a dial on the top to select the amount of water to dispense. I opt for a mug, which it fills adequately. It also has a button which immediately stops the water dispensing if needed. The water has no nasty taste, which is another reason I opt for this machine.
The only thing I would change about the Hot cup is that the dispensing nozzle doesn’t come off to clean and living in a hard water area it doe sometimes get limescale around the tip. other than that I can’t fault it.

Come on Breville start providing spare parts for your products.
Had four of these hot cups now, they are perfect for my wife who has rheumatoid arthritis in her hands and cannot use a normal kettle, unfortunately the have one major fault and that is the spring in the lid is not strong enough and eventually breaks, which means you cannot open the lid. It would be quite easy to change the spring but Breville cannot or will not sell this item as a spare part. Their solution is to offer a replacement kettle at a slightly reduced price. Good for business but not good for the customer. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a better appliance on the market, unless anyone knows differently. In the meantime we are of to buy kettle number five.

Two Years In and Still Going Strong
Bought mine in Jan 2019 and have never had a problem.
It has a couple of things to be aware of;
Cooking, if you cook i.e. making gravy or filling a thermos flask, it’s too smal to get a jug of flask etc under so you have to boil several cups and pour them in, no a problem just a hassle.
Noise; it is not a quiet boil so if you fancy a cuppa in the early morning when the rest of the house is asleep, close the kitchen door!
Mug size; With the model we have (VKJ142) the amount of water dispenses is not variable, so a smaller mug can have little space for milk, a large mug will be 2/3rds full and there is no stop function so you get a cupful and then the other 2/3rd over the work top!
None of wich are a problem, but affect your decision to buy this model, but it boils water, quickly, to a good temperature, easy to fill and clean – recomended

excellant buy
I spent a lot of time wondering if to buy this, so glad I did. I have had no problems with aftertaste or temperature as mentioned in some reviews. I haven’t used the small cup, as i’m a tea drinker but the largest cup size fills my travel mug (its 300ml or just over half pint). I bought it as my other half drove me mad at 5 in the morning boiling the kettle (he didn’t understand just to fill to one cup). Now I don’t even hear it, as quieter than my kettle and I know hes only boiling a cup! We both have a cuppa in an evening, me tea, him coffee but it boils so quick that this is no problem, I just stop the water on his (he has more milk) rather than changing cup size.

Perfect if you have a disability
This is the best thing I’ve purchased, I have a disability and also I struggle to use my hands and wrist with this kettle all I have to do is press one button and it measures out the Water I require and that’s it that’s my drink done. You can make it a small to large drink on the dial at the top of the kettle. With my disability I am no longer having to lift the kettle to fill it up or tipped the kettle to make a drink. A MUSY BUY

Fills travel mugs!
My main concern that hadn’t been mentioned in any reviews was whether it would fill my travel mug and if the mug would fit. Hurrah! It does! I choose to use my unit without the drip tray (the unit doesn’t drip and I think it looks better this way, plus it takes up less space).
So my travel mug fits and it fills it to the level I would normally fill it.
My second concern was that the water might not be quite boiling and you would get that white film very common with coffee machines dispensing ‘hot water’. Well I’m happy to say that doesn’t happen with this unit. It is the perfect temperature for tea.
The reason I switched from kettles was because I found the second cup after filling the kettle tasted slightly stewed – reminiscent of the old tea urn. This unit tastes fresh every time (I use a filter jug to fill it) and my tea is delicious.
I am so, so happy with this unit. Have recommended it to anyone who would listen!
Filling settings as follows:
lowest setting = 150ml, espresso mug
middle setting = 250ml, standard tea mug
highest setting = 350ml, travel mug

28 seconds then coffee!
Loving this! Though the filters for this are the Maxtra+ so I’m glad I didn’t order additional filters at the same time.
Firstly, huge water tank. So much so that I started to worry the first time that I filled it as it took a lot of water before it showed above the heater compartment, I actually started to wonder if I should have read the instructions first.
So, as it is a filter kettle- sorry, hot water dispenser- it does take a while for the water to filter through and reach the huge reserve tank.
As the cup sizes are dots rather than volume, some trial and error with different mugs is to be expected in the beginning.
Obviously, I timed how long it took to boil a cup of water on the second largest cup setting, 28 seconds from pressing the button to cup of coffee. Very much a welcome thing first thing in the morning. Just remember to top up the tank the night before. Or it’s a lot longer.
Emptying the tank is a bit of a bum ache as you are not able to empty cold water, the only way is to make up to 8 cups of tea, coffee or hot chocolate.
Oh, and making instant gravy or pre boiling water for the spuds became a lot trickier since banishing my old, standard kettle.
Fast coffee at 6am makes up for that, though.
Great for when the carpal tunnel is being uncooperative as no lifting. I imagine descaling will be an issue….

Great kettle
This is my second one of these kettles. I love them! Couldn’t be without one. My last ones light stopped working then the measuring went awry BUT the latter was down to the fact that I didn’t bother to descale it at all – this one I will make sure I do! The only downside to these is if you need a whole kettle of boiling water, but I keep an old kettle in the cupboard for that. These are great as they have the option to variate the output of water unlike other models/brands.

Makes a cup of tea quickly
I loved the idea of making a cup of tea quickly so bought this. It does just that, it’s quick and ideal if you are making one cup, so great when I’m working at home. Downsides: it spits a bit so I would not recommend young children using it, I’m even nervous about my 12 year old using it as she is clumsy. The other disadvantage is when you need more than one cup of boiling water for example when making a jug of gravy (didn’t think about that when I bought it). Also you can’t have half a cup, I like instant porridge and a whole cup of boiling water is too much, it’s no big deal you can pour into the cup then pour from cup into pot but you get the idea! You get one cup, same amount of water every time (Sorry if that seems obvious, but I didn’t think about it). Do like it though and would recommend.

Brillia
This boiler is fabulous. Before buying I read some disappointing reviews but I haven’t experienced any problems. It’s heavier than a kettle to fill but which is a downside for people with lifting problems but it’s perfectly manageable for my partner and I.
Fill it up, select your cup size. Press the button. Hey presto hot water.
We have if on a worktop with a shelf directly above. Feared a kettle would steam too much and damage the shelf we chose this. Does a full size cup at a time. Minimal steam and should be more economical as not boiling more water than you need. Looks good too.

Mam & Dad love i
Bought it as a present when the previous smaller one broke… only through heavy use, they drink a lot of tea and cook a lot so the smaller one really worked hard, when it broke they reverted back to a standard kettle and it was then they realised and remembered how long it took to make a cuppa again.

After a few months of annoying kettle waiting I got fed up and bought this one for them for Christmas 2018 and they like it even more as this one has a stop button and a bigger tank to hold the water. The last one lasted about five years and saved loads on the electric bill as they weren’t boiling whole kettles of water. Descaling is a bit of a faff but should be done anyway. I hope this one lasts the same amount of time or longer, I think Breville don’t advertise this product enough.

Hot water dispenser with automatic cut off.
I purchased this hot water dispenser because it could dispense mugs/cups of liquid and switch off automatically. I previously used a dispenser which required manual switch off, but even though I was determined to watch the dispenser as it filled up something would occur which would distract me and I ended up with spillage on the kitchen worktops. The Breville dispenser allows you to choose the amount of water you require, I have mine set for half pint which is the ideal quantity for the average size mug.