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

 

Saves boiling kettle for one cup perfect measures of water just love i

 

Love this item, boils just the right amount for the perfect cuppa.

 

Bought this to replace a standard kettle, a great substitute, ease of use.

 

For a quick brew and efficient only heating 1 cup of water at a time. Not had the onecup for long but it seems to be sturdy and should last a long time.

 

Use it regularly and it’s never let me down.
Works really well.

 

I love this kettle, I find myself making a brew that I don’t even want and offering to make one for other people just so I can use the machine I wish I’d bought one sooner.

 

Excellent gift for my elderly parents. They struggled to lift a kettle and do this water dispenser is a great alternative.
They drink lots of tea and find the quick dispense of water and changeable volume an excellent feature.
You can fill in situ with a jug, as it’s quite heavy to lift full, Or remove from base and fill.
Great item, I was so impressed, I’ve got one for myself now!

 

I never used to read reviews, sometimes they are more unhelpful than helpful
I just love this product easy to use.. nice to look at the water cuts off at the cup size you have chosen, brilliant for giving quick water access to fill a baby’s bottle.. piping hot water very impressed and like I said the review doesn’t always do justice and people expect different things does exactly what it says will even recommend to others A++++++ item

 

I think this is really good, the ability to only boil one cup at a time, and select how much water is great and saves electricity. Only thing I would add for future models would be having a free flow option like a kettle of those times you need more than one cup.

 

Seniors win with this Hot water dispenser (a kettle really) on two accounts. (1) you can top up the dispenser with a small jug and thus save lifting a full kettle – both from the tap and when poring into a tea cup etc. (2) secondly, you save power, you can set the cup size for dispensing and the machine only bouils the amount you require. Unlike a kettle that boils its full contents.
This is the best purchase I have made this year to help in the kitchen. It has many advantages for everyday use – for coffee, soups, sauce mixes etc.

 

These kettles are great. The adjustment means you can easily cope with different size mugs and cups and one shot will fill a standard mug.

Quick boiling and whilst noisy for the instant they are doing their thing they are much quicker than any kettle.

Economic and good for the environment, I never waste water. Great for the office because we fill it and a couple of jugs for topping up during the day and can have tea and coffee easily.

This is my third one of these (different locations), I love them

 

Having seen my daughter’s Breville, I chose this to replace an existing, but failing water boiler. I ant disappointed. It boils quickly and provides a consistent amount of boiling water very quickly. It takes a little while to get the right amount, as the adjustments are sometimes quite small. A second cup is often slightly less full. Importantly, if you get too much water, the stop button is instantaneous. The only criticism is the water container is quite heavy which is a problem if you have weak wrists. I would certainly recommend i

 

Easy and quick, saves money, only boils what you need. The max setting could produce a bit more, for big mugs

 

Easy to use, but will require boiling twice on full setting for a man size mug. It will fill to the brim for a normal size mug, so adjust as needed. No complaints yet, but I’ve added extra cover for any future problems that may arise. Will boil 350ml on the highest setting.

 

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.

 

I really only use my existing kettle for boiling water for cups of tea and coffee. I put just enough water in the kettle each time I boil up. I know someone who has a Breville HotCup water dispenser and I have been impressed with how easy it is to use.

This product is nicely packaged and takes up no more space than a regular kettle. The whole body lifts off for filling, so it will fit under wall hung kitchen cupboards with no problems. It has a continuously variable rotary lever so you can set the desired cup size. Once set up, making a cup of tea is as simple as dropping a teabag in the cup, put the cup/mug under the nozzle, press the button and, hey presto, one perfect cup of tea. The large reservoir capacity means I only have to top it up once every day or so.

If you want to boil water for a large number of cups at once or a teapot, then I would recommend using a regular kettle. Other than that, go get one – it’s a great product.

 

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.

 

My 89 year-old mum has had the almost identical model (this lights up blue, her original lit up red) for the past three years or so. After this time the original quit working, she thought it was too soon and should have lasted longer. She lives in an area with very hard water, I’m not sure if that had any bearing on the issue. Anyway, I was pleased to find this on Amazon and at a cheaper price than paid three years ago. This model has variable dispensing so that you can adjust it to the exact amount for the size of mug. This appliance sits out on the countertop and is easy to fill with cold water from a jug. There is no picking up boiling kettles full of water, so it is safe for young and old alike. All round a brilliant invention.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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