Reddit reviews Aroma Housewares Hot H20 X-Press 1.5 Liter (6-Cup) Cordless Electric Water Kettle, Stainless Steel

If you don't want to spend the extra dollar, you can use bubbles to estimate the temperature. What I'll also do, since I have a non-programmable Aroma kettle that just celebrated its fifth birthday, is boil some water, stick a thermometer inside, and jot down the temperature every few minutes. Then, I'll know, for example, if I want water at 170°F, I should leave the kettle for ~10 minutes after it finishes boiling.

My ritual includes the following items which make tea at work for me:

• The electric kettle
  
• The personal tea mug
  
• The meeting tea pot
  
  This is the best $60 I ever spent. These are my favorite teas I can recommend:
  
  
• Ahmad Barooti Assam - for the mornings
  
• Rooibos - A root tea popular in Africa, also called "bush tea" for the afternoons
  
  Boil water, steep and drink! I usually load up on the tea and steep for about 5 minutes because I like my tea strong. The Nissan Thermos is the best insulated mug I've ever owned. It has kept my tea hot for about 4 hours with the lid on. Absolutely amazing.

A lot of people are crazy particular about tea. I think they're the same kind of people who, when presented with a $10 red wine in a $150 bottle, claim it is of superior quality...

Anyways, I don't care for a lot of green tea as most of it tastes like wet hay, but Lipton makes a decent green tea called Orange, Passionfruit, & Jasmine Green Tea. Can only get one cup out of the tea as the second cup tastes like wet hay. I like their Orange & Spice Flavored Black Tea too. Those are the cheap teas I commonly drink...

"Expensive", I like Rishi White Tea, the variety I'm drinking at the moment has a hint of peach in it and is flipping delicious. I use one of those clamp-ball infusers all the tea snobs pull their pubic hair out in despair over, I've never had any problems. I fill it about half full and the tea leaves usually expand to almost but not quite the whole basket. Can usually get two reasonably strong cups of tea out of one basket load. I'm sure they can hear the tea leaves cry about being cramped and bitter, but I'm not one to listen to the screams of those I'm boiling alive...

For the hot water, I got an electric kettle which is amazingly fast and convenient, and makes water at 185'F automatically. At least, I pour it as soon as it clicks off into my mug, and a candy thermometer reads between 185'F and 180'F.

For sweetener, I'm using a teaspoon or two of organic sugar (Domino at the moment), it has an amazing flavor that will make you wonder why you ever suffered plain, refined sugar before.

We have exceedingly soft, alkaline water (strange combination I know) out of our well, you may want to filter yours first as I've heard it makes a difference.

I've bought two of these separately for tea and coffee. They both heat water damn fast, which is really all I want from a $30 kettle. In lieu of a thermometer, I just wait a specific amount of time after it reaches a roiling boil.

this one for home and this one lives at work. Both work fine.

https://www.amazon.com/Aroma-Housewares-Cordless-Electric-Stainless/dp/B000KDVTJI

Was looking into getting, my friend has this and that Bodum Brazil thing looks awesome. Never seen something like that before

I'm here to help spiderbro!

electric kettle awesome for kitchen
http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-AWK-115S-X-Press-2-Liter-Cordless/dp/B000KDVTJI/ref=pd_sbs_k_1

these are the best cups ever you dont need a coster with them
http://www.amazon.com/Tervis-Tumblers-Clear-16oz-Pack/dp/B000Z4K9BQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1377494211&sr=1-1&keywords=tervis+tumbler

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For a decent budget kettle I quite like this one from Aroma:

http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-X-Press-Cordless-Electric-Stainless/dp/B000KDVTJI/

I have two of these (one at work, one at home):
http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-AWK-115S-X-Press-2-Liter-Cordless/dp/B000KDVTJI

No complaints.

decent rage comic, however I have to point out:

http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-AWK-115S-X-Press-2-Liter-Cordless/dp/B000KDVTJI/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1324256878&sr=1-1

a lot less than a new range... and quicker

Well, there are always these options:
this or this

The only problem is the lack of temperature control, it's basically hit boil and it stops. If you care about temperature control, then I recommend buying an instant thermometer(I recommend this one because it will beep when it reaches the desired temperature, make sure to set it to like 180 if you want 185) along with those kettles.

So if you purchase the the cheapest electric kettle and the thermometer, then you don't even break $30.

Alternatively you can always buy a normal kettle and microwave the water but control management would be more difficult.

I have this Aroma water kettle and it works pretty well. It's under $30, but I think it was cheaper when I bought it.