Advantages: Fast boiler, good looker Disadvantages: Build quality could be better, pain to fill
...This kettle looks good. Rounded contours, with a rather neat (or is it cost-cutting?) transparent window in the side, allowing you to look right through your kettle and watch your... erm... toaster.
Pick it up, and first impressions are dashed on the rocks. It feels cheap and plasticky, and you need three hands to fill it with water, otherwise the lid falls shut, and you get soaked.
Put it back on the base and flick the switch and the Tefal starts to look (and sound) impressive. Within seconds, you get to hear the sound of water starting to boil, and a bit later, voila, anything up to 1.7l of water.
Apart from the build quality, my only gripe is that I can't "just go and do something for a couple of minutes while I wait for the kettle" anymore....
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Advantages: Looks good, boils quickly & quietly, easy-to-read water level Disadvantages: Some condensated water can drip onto handle when opening lid
...After a few bad experiences with leaking Morphy Richards and Russell & Hobbs rapid-boild kettles, the Tefal Vitesse has not put a foot wrong yet.
Its large, 1.7L capacity offers plenty of juice for the cafetiere or family-sized teapot.
When the unit is on and boiling, the push-down button on the top of the handle lights up, making it fully visible all the way round, no matter if you're left- or right-handed.
The water guage is also visible from both sides of the kettle and is nice and wide, so it's really easy to see at a glance how much water is already in. There's none of this 'floating ball' stuff which gathers scrum and limescale all too easily.
Filling the kettle can be done through the fairly large spout (could have been made a bit bigger) or if, like us, you use one of those water filter jugs to help curtail limescale, lifting...
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The Hype
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