Temp Programmable Combined Tea Maker and Electric Kettle with Tea Filter Lid, 1.7-Liter

♛ Needing a kettle that will boil 1.7 liters of water in under 5 mins? ♛🚚 📫 Product arrived in a nice box, very nice kettle ✔Test - We have been looking all around for a fast heating kettle that we can use in the morning, before work. This Kettle is well built and has some pretty cool features - detachable tea strainer that adjusts for optimum concentration of tea. The second lid that comes with the kettle, snaps into place with the unique design of the handle - pops up when you need to remove the lid to fill.We like our instant coffee and tea in the mornings and sometimes at night to help unwind from the day. This kettle is simple - fill with water and press the temperature you want. Within minutes you will have piping hot water with enough to fill multiple mugs (1.7-Liter).This SMAL kettle boils water in under 5 minutes! That's very impressive!🏁---Pros---🏁📌 Glass kettle (high quality glass)📌 Rapid heating📌 Large 1.7-Liters📌 Detachable tea strainer that adjusts up & down📌 Boils 1.7 liters of water in under 5 mins☠---Cons---☠📌 It gets so hot on the high setting that the kettle shakes! (keep it close to my sink)░░░░░Overall, this is now one of our favorite appliances in our kitchen! This kettle rocks and will have your hot water ready in under 5 minutes! The on/off and heat settings are easy to use and work great. The kettle can be set down onto the base in any direction and is simple to use - turns off when it reaches the desired temperature. The tea strainer works great and having the ability to move the basket up & down helps control the concentration. Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a tea/water kettle!░░░░░

Loved making tea in this tea maker, but it started to leak at the base of the handle after one month!! This is my second try, the first one did the same. I gave it a second chance because it is so user friendly, but will try a different brand!!

This arrives yesterday, and I am not impressed. The metal is pretty flimsy, certainly NOT stainless. I expect it will rust. If you use the tea infuser, you will most certainly have plastic submerged in the water, as that is what the top is completely made of, cleverly camouflaged by a metal (again, not stainless) cover. Worst of all, is the shrill, insistent beeping, for everything you do: plug it in, Press a temp button, then press the Start button (unnecessary redundancy), 2 when it reaches temp.It is quick. I like the presets. All in all though, ...I’m giving this 2 stars, because I’ve only had it for a day, so I don’t know, yet, that it’s going to rust or break or leak or fall apart. I jut suspect that it will and don’t want to be out the $$ I’ve spent on this, when it could have gone toward a more substantial one.I think I’ll spend the money and get a more substantial one — with a product guarantee.

The 30 minute “Keep Warm Feature” has been effectively disabled without disclosure.There are two units, one selling for $60 and one for $100. The $100 unit has a keep warm feature with one of the temperatures disabled as noted in the instruction manual (100 C keep warm disabled). For the other temperatures, I measured this and it does work for about 30 seconds not 30 minutes as specified. I also checked to see if the lights just turn off and it is really working. No, unfortunately, the lights go out after about 30 seconds and then there is a loud click as the liquid temperature begins to drop. I measured the actual temperature of the tea. It makes no difference which temperature you select except for the 100 deg button, where it doesn't work at all.There have been several reports that the 30 minute "keep warm feature" should be longer, or is not working properly and cuts off after a minute or so. It turns out that all of that is true, depending on whether you use the 100 Deg C button for the initial setting or not.The instructions tell us that they apparently disabled the 100 Deg “keep warm feature” for safety reasons (and they noted this in the instruction manual not the product sales description). It also looks like they later decided that any of their selected temperatures with insufficient liquid could be a safety hazard and then have effectively disabled the feature without disclosing it, by setting the keep warm time to 30 seconds, except for the 100 deg disclosure where it doesn’t work at all, not even for 30 seconds.This seems quite deceptive, because at first I thought it was working and I just didn’t realize how fast 30 minutes can go by. The lights stay on just long enough for you to think it is working and then they shut off right after you leave. Then on top of that they disclose the 100 deg button being disabled but not the other temperatures being changed to 30 seconds. But then, there probably isn’t a big market for a 30 second keep warm feature… at least at a $40 premium.Reading between the lines on all this, it looks like they tried to reword the description when they made this change to make it get by in a court of law, by subtly implying that the keep warm was for brewing only, except all the initial reviews (several secured by giving discounts in return for honest reviews) rave about keeping the tea warm feature being so great. There is not 1 customer in 100 that will pick up on that nuanced, shaded representation of a typical keep warm feature that is usually depicted in black and white. Thank God at least for Amazon Customer Reviews.Update on: 10.25.15 Today I had some leftover tea so I decided to see if things would be any different. I pressed the buttons in the following sequence and viola', today we got REHEAT and keep warm for 30 minutes. Apparently the starting temp has to be sufficiently below the selected temp and it has to arrive there through its heating cycle. The sequence I used was: 160...power...stay warm. The 160 button will flash as it reheats to 160... then it goes steady... then it holds that temp for about 30 minutes. The taste was flat as expected, but I was trying to reverse engineer this thing to keep warm tea, warm. We made some progress today and I will update again as soon as I work out a procedure.Update on: 10.26.15If one decides in advance that they are going to want to keep some tea warm, (and if it doesn't require 100 deg C) they can hit the keep warm button before it gets to the desired temp and it will keep the tea warm for 30 minutes. If the tea requires 100 degs C you will have to brew it and let it cool to below ...X... degs F, and then follow the procedure in the previous paragraph. More as I develop it...where X is equal to 160, 175, 195 Deg FUpdate on: 10.27.15Success. I use black tea, so I brew it at 100 Deg C for 4 minutes. I replace the brewing infuser with the Standard Lid or more lately a pyroceramic bowl, and start drinking the tea. I have found that it takes a long time for the tea to cool down, which is now making me wonder if the "Keep the tea warm feature" is all that necessary. Anyway, I had decided I didn't want to keep the tea any higher than 160 Deg F for a keep warm temp, which means I had to wait over a half hour for the temp to drop below 160 deg F. But anyway, you can easily check to see if the temp is low enough to engage the keep warm by selecting the temp you want and then hitting the Power button. If you hear 3 beeps and the power light won't stay on, the temp is too high... just wait a little longer. Once you hit the power button and it stays on with no beeps, the temp is below the selected temp you chose and then you can hit the keep warm button. Now you will have three lights with the temperature light flashing indicating the heater is on.You will notice that the system is very sophisticated, as it cycles on for a few seconds, and then cuts off allowing the tea to heat up without boiling at the stainless steel interface. Then it cuts back on and heats for a few more seconds and cycles off again. It is a very heavy current heater (producing 1500 watts) so in just a few cycles, it will raise the temperature 10 Deg F. Once it is at the selected temperature the temp light will go steady and hold your selected temp for 30 minutes. About once every 10 minutes the heater will come back on for one cycle or so, to keep the tea at the desired temp. If you come back and the 30 minute keep warm has expired, the temperature of the tea will likely be somewhat below your normal keep warm temperature. Great... you can easily re-select your temp button, hit the Power button, and then hit the keep warm button and have another 30 minutes of keep warm.Just a random note: if the unit stops working suddenly as some have reported, check the circuit breaker for that outlet as the unit will draw close to 13 amps at 120 volts and anything else running on that circuit is likely to trip the breaker.Update on: 10.29.15 I am very happy with the unit now, and I am raising my rating to 4 Stars. It would be an easy 5 Stars if it did not have plastic in contact with the steam and boiling water. In fact, I would petition for a 10 Star rating, since it would be the only one on Amazon. More on that in the next update.Update on:10.30.15 I was initially bummed out that the the 'keep warm' was jiggered with, and was so difficult to work with, but I would like to suggest that what we have, as is... may be better. First of all, tea sitting at even the lowest 160 deg F temperature evaporates and bathes the black plastic, though stylish lid, in constant high humidity vapor. As really experienced tea drinkers have learned the hard way... nothing beats a fresh cup of tea, made with cold, charcoal filtered, water. I am starting to feel that letting the tea cool naturally and in this setup it takes a long time, and then just use the 'reheat' procedure that I discovered by accident, might be a preferred method. As noted above, the heating system does not boil the tea (not even micro-boil the tea). There are no tiny bubbles at the surface of the stainless heating plate. The current turns off before the bubbles form and then turns back on after the surrounding tea has absorbed the induced heat. The tea is reheated without even micro-boiling and it hasn't been sitting there losing flavor at a high temperature.So to reiterate (without having to go find my previous procedure) consider... try for yourself...Select temp... hit power-on... maybe hit 'keep warm' (or just skip it and (SMAL) GENTLY reheat it when you want it, it only takes a few seconds) Fantastic!!more:I have been researching this BPA stuff and can't believe how unconscious manufacturing folks are, that haven't picked up on how many people would pay real money to solve this potential plastic problem. First of all, having someone even at a well known company, verbally say that they checked... and it is BPA Free plastic, doesn't do anything for me. That may or may not be true, and even if it is truly BPA free, what's to stop one of these smart Chinese companies using a BPA free plastic that happens to be worse for you, than BPA Free plastic. (like they did in the Lumber Liquidators/60 Minutes weasel wording scam). Many of the resins in plastics are not good for you and some can be deadly if they leach out in significant quantity into something you consume. Trust me, steam and boiling water are some of the best ways to induce leaching.If they are using a BPA free plastic that instead has TBBPA (Tetra bromide) or PBDE (Poly Bromide). They are technically BPA free, but all of the above are hormone disrupting compounds.The following photos represent an increasing level of preference to avoid the leaching from plastic problem, during boiling and keep warm. The aluminum was quick and fast, but is the aluminum any better? If I had a flat piece of stainless, or a borosilicate lid like a Pyrex lid, I would use it. Maybe SMAL will take note and produce a more stylish version... or maybe one of their competitors will do it first.