Proctor Silex K4070 1.7-Liter Automatic Electric Kettle Save 25% Off

PROS: Works well. Heats fast, auto-shutoff feature and visible water level are nice.

CONS: Putting kettle on base requires lining up 3 slots which takes a little extra care and might result in damage to contacts if you''re not careful.

Bought this for my daughter who is a college student. My concern was mainly safety issues. This was the lowest priced product in this category. My daughter loves it. It is compact, rather good looking,convenient, and very safe to operate. Furthermore, there is no shipping cost! I am very happy with the purchase.

If you need a beeter looking product, there are more expensive ones available (on amazon.com). For my home use, i have one of those.

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This brand new kettle after having been cleaned, descaled with vinegar (at Proctor Silex''s suggestion), filled with a solution of water and baking soda (at Proctor-Silex''s suggestion) reeks of a chemical, plastic smell, which it imparts to any water boiled in it.

We''re returning it immediately. Feh.

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This is a great electric tea kettle. The base is corded but the kettle is not so you can carry it around anywhere you wish. The base is made so that the kettle will not work unless it''s inserted properly into the base. It also won''t work unless there''s a minimum amount of water in it. Don''t worry, there is a light to tell you whether the kettle is on or not. It also has boil-dry protection. So all the safety features are there. Now here''s what''s nice about it. First of all it is big. The last thing that guests want to do is wait for tea while others already have theirs. If you have more than 4 or 5 guests then that''s a real possibility with smaller kettles. But not with this one. Also there are windows to tell you exactly how much water there is. What these windows are also good for is that you can see the state of the water. So, for example, if you''re going to have green tea then you don''t want to wait for the kettle to shut off automatically because that means that the water is boiling. But with the windows you can see when the water is close to boiling and shut it off manually. The lid is easy to open so that you can fill the kettle very easily. The opening is nice and big too. And with the lid so easy to open it''s a breeze to change the filter should you ever need to do that. If you have hard water then this will be a consideration. Finally it''s not too loud. Oh you can still hear it but it will not drown out the conversation. It''s very well made and a nice design (handle easy to grip, the pouring angle is very convenient, a non-tangle cord, etc.) I highly recommend this product. And last, but certainly not least, you can''t beat the price. Quality and price, what more can you ask for?

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After our first trip in Ireland and the UK together and seeing these electric kettles in almost every B&B, my husband and I had to have one for the house as we are both all day tea drinkers. This model from Proctor Silex has held up well for 3 years of daily water boils--usually a dozen times a day or more. It automatically shuts off after the water boils. About half a kettle takes approx 1.5 minutes to boil. I''ve no complaints about this staple of our kitchen. Besides boiling hot water quickly for beverages or soups, etc it is also handy to boil water in first before adding it to a pot on the stove, cuts down on total cooking time.

UPDATE 4/2011. I don''t know why in getting rid of plastic cooking implements we didn''t replace our kettle earlier. Probably because my husband decided a couple months ago that he too wanted to avoid teflon and plastics. We replaced this kettle with a stainless steel interior kettle where no parts touch the boiling water. I would downgrade the above reviewed kettle to a 3 star based on this.

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