Takes up less room than a filter jug and a kettle .
Disadvantages:
You have to wait for the water to filter before you can boil it !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Where we live the waters not bad and we don't really need to filter it but my Father in Laws water is so bad that some days it is undrinkable. Because of this he filters all his water and if he dosen't he has to descale his kettle about once a month. He has up until just recently has a separate filter jug and kettle but they took up so much space in his small kitchen. We noticed the Brita Acclario filter kettle in Argos a few months ago while we were looking to get him a fridge jug which although notideal would at least save him a little space. The kettles were priced at around £45 but he was needing a new kettle anyway so he said if we wanted to buy him one to wait til his birthday this month and the price may have dropped slightly. We saw one in Tesco about 6 weeks ago for £26 and decided to get him one the next time we were in, but when I went back they had dropped to the amazing price of £13.45. I went home leaving the kettle convinced I was mistaken and then dragged my poor Hubby back to Tesco when he finished work, sure enough they were £13.45, he even went to check it on the scanner to make sure the price wasn't for something else. This time we took one home with us. Once home we decided we had to try it to make sure it worked. I was very impressed with it and we ended up keeping it and buying my Father in Law another one. The kettle is available in White and Graphite (dark Grey) the ones we got were both Graphite.
The kettle is 2KW and boils really quickley, a lot quicker than our old kettle which was also a 2KW. It has a flat plate heating element in the bottom of the kettle. The main jug is clear plastic so you can see it boiling and within seconds of switching on there were little bubbles forming in the base. One thing that really did surprise me about the jug is the fact that it dosen't get very hot even when just boiled, in fact you can put your hand right where the water is and the heat isn't even uncomfortably hot! It is cordless and has a 360* base with cord storage. The kettle comes with a filter cartridge included. Before you use it you need to soak it in water for a few seconds the activate the filter granules. You know it's ready when bubbles stop coming out. Then you just pop it in the the filter holder filter 2 lots of water then you can use the 3rd lot. Each cartridge should filter around 150L of water but depending on how hard your water is you may find it is less. The kettle has an inbuilt digital "memo" cartridge indicator. There are four bars which go down each week and you are supposed to change the cartridge when it is clear after 4 weeks. To set the "Memo" you just hold down a button and wait for the indicator to stop flashing, when it stops it has reset. Has our water is soft anyway and we had filtered nowhere near 150L when it said we needed to change it I just left the same cartridge in and reset it anyway. To use the kettle just as a water filter jug you can just filter the water through then decant it into a bottle or something an pop it in the fridge. You can filter up to 1L at a time, this takes about 2 minutes. You can boil up to 1.5L at a time. If you pour say a litre of water in to be filtered then decide you want to boil it halfway through filtering you can do just by switching the kettle on, this automatically stops the filtering process and the water dosen't spill out of the filtering part when you pour as it is sealed.
On the handle there is a slide panel to filter water you leave the panel down, to use it as a kettle you slide the panel up and press a button at the top of the handle. It automatically shuts off when boiled or if it boils dry. There are clear instuctions included with the kettle and shows each step in pictures as well as words. It is very easy to clean as there are no real fiddly bits to get in between. It is quite a heavy kettle and the on button could be a little arkward as it is very small but other than that I can find nothin to complain about with this kettle. My Father in Law was a bit dubious as to wether it would be as good as having the separate jug and kettle but even he is impressed with his. The replacement brita cartridges cost around £19.99 for 6 but you can get universal ones for about half this price.
The filters help reduce the build up of limescale, reduce heavy metals in the water such as lead and copper and reduce chlorine, certain pesticides and other impurities.
On the box it shows a cup of tea in a glass cup the picture is in 2 halves one showing the tea using filtered water the other unfiltered and the unfiltered is really cloudy. I tried this and even in our water there is a definate difference. It also shows the same sort of picture with a kettle element showing the limescale build up without the filter, only time will tell how well this work but so far after 3- 4 weeks there is no limescale whatsoever on either our or my Father in Laws element.
They are still on sale for around £45 and we bought the last 4 besides ours from the Tesco near us and sold them on ebay for around £30 each making ourselves a nice little sum and still the buyers were getting a great saving. There are still a lot being sold on ebay that are factory returns for about £30 but you may not get a cartridge included (not being sold by us BTW)!
I would recommend anyone looking to replace their kettle consider one of these especially if you have to filter you water anyway, and even if you think your water is OK you will be surprised at the difference.
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