MecityElectric Kettle Gooseneck Pour Over Kettle ±1℉ Temperature Control Quick Heating Water Boiler for Coffee & Tea & Formula Auto Shut Off Tea Kettle 1200 Watt, 0.8L, Matt Black, Barista Edition

THIS BOILS VERY QUICKLY, OFFERS GREAT DEGREE CONTROL, AND LOOKS VERY SLEEK.NOW, THE ONLY THING I DON'T LIKE IS THE REQUIRED '3 SECOND PRESS' TO TURN THE UNIT OFF COMPLETELY. AT FIRST, I DECIDED TO JUST QUICK-TAP THE HEATING BUTTON TO TURN THE HEATER OFF AFTER USAGE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THIS BUTTON INTERACTS WITH THE 'HOLD HEAT' BUTTON, WHICH I ALSO USE, IT WOULD FAIL TO TURN THE KETTLE OFF. BUT I WOULDN'T NOTICE THIS, AND I WOULD SIT DOWN AND HEAR CRACKING NOISES FROM THE KETTLE AND REALIZE I HAD PUT THE EMPTY KETTLE BACK ON WITH THE HEAT STILL HIGH. THIS IS OF COURSE VERY NO BUENO FOR THE KETTLE, TO APPLY HEAT TO EMPTY KETTLE. NO BUENO.SO, CONFOUND IT, IN THE INTEREST OF CARING WELL FOR THE KETTLE AND TO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE AGAIN, I DECIDED I WOULD SIMPLY COMMIT TO LONG-PRESSING THE 'OFF' BUTTON EVERY TIME I USE IT. NOW, THIS MIGHT SEEM LIKE A MINOR ISSUE - WHAT'S 3 SECONDS IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS? WELL, I'LL TELL YOU.I MAKE COFFEE IN THE MORNING, TEA ONCE OR TWICE DURING THE DAY, AND OFTEN TEA AT NIGHT. SO 3-4 USES PER DAY. THAT'S 9-12 SECONDS I MUST SPEND LONG-PRESSING THIS DEVICE PER DAY. LET'S USE 10 AS A NICE ROUND NUMBER. THAT'S 70 SECONDS PER WEEK, 3640 SECONDS PER YEAR, AND ASSUMING I LIVE ANOTHER THIRTY YEARS OR SO, THAT'S 109,200 SECONDS OF LONG-PRESSING THIS STUPID BUTTON THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFETIME. NOW THAT'S 1820 HOURS, OR ABOUT 75 DAYS OF MY ENTIRE REMAINING LIFE ON THIS EARTH OF LONG-PRESSING THIS OFF BUTTON JUST TO ENSURE I DON'T LEAVE THE KETTLE ON HIGH HEAT WHILE EMPTY.NOW THAT BOTHERED ME QUITE A LOT INITIALLY. THAT'S SO MUCH TIME IN MY LIFE I COULD SPEND DOING MORE IMPORTANT THINGS, LIKE LOOKING AT MY PHONE OR SITTING IN MY ARMCHAIR OR WATCHING TV OR PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. BUT INSTEAD, I HAVE TO STAND LIKE A DWEEB FOR MULTIPLE SECONDS A DAY LONG-PRESSING THIS DEVICE TO TURN IT OFF. OVER TIME, THAT ADDS UP! I WAS GOING TO GIVE THIS KETTLE 4 STARS FOR THIS REASON.BUT LISTEN. I TRIED TO CHANGE ATTITUDE. I BEGAN SPENDING THOSE 3 SECONDS EACH LONG-PRESS THINKING ABOUT LIFE. I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE MEANING OF LIFE. AND, NO, I HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT YET, BUT I THINK GIVEN THE THOUSAND-PLUS HOURS OF LONG-PRESSING THIS BUTTON THAT I HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE COMING DECADES, I MIGHT ACTUALLY JUST BEGIN TO DISCOVER SOME REAL, DEEP MEANING IN LIFE FROM THE CUMULATIVE 3-SECOND LONG PRESS MEDITATIONS. AND, I LIKE TO THINK THAT THIS RE-ORIENTING OF THE USE OF THIS TIME MAY JUST YIELD GREATER 'DIVIDENDS' THAN SCROLLING POLITICAL CONTENT OR WATCHING VIDEOS OF BABIES OR CATS. BUT, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.BUT THIS MUCH I CAN SAY, THE MECITY ELECTRIC KETTLE HAS CHANGED MY LIFE ALREADY, CAUSING ME TO LEARN TO SLOW DOWN, TO TAKE TIME TO THINK, TO MEDITATE, TO PONDER THE DEPTHS OF LIFE AND THE MYSTERIES THEREOF. AND FOR THAT, I HAVE THE PERHAPS ADEQUATE UX ENGINEERS OF THE MECITY ELECTRIC KETTLE TO THANK.5/5 STARS

Very pretty color, you can set your own desired temperature when heating up water. Very aesthetically pleasing and it can be displayed in kitchen. Heats up water very fast. Staineless steel material on the I aside to prevent rusting. Many digital notifications on the screen to advise you the levels of heats as the water is boiling, auto shut off features. Definitely worth what you’re paying.

Very cute kettle for boiling water for my tea. You can set the temperature, it beeps when it's ready, and will shut off automatically if you forget about it.

had it for two months and it's been working great. I use it for tea and holding the temperature when I'm brewing gong fu style in smaller vessels more often. My only complaint is how short the cord is. They really only anticipated this would be used on the counter with an outlet in the wall above the counter. I use it at my desk and the cord barely hangs down to reach my surge protector multi-outlet. unless it's all the way back (where my monitors are). and it's a 3 prong so finding extension cords that aren't 6-20 feet long is annoying. even when I use in the kitchen, the cord barely reaches the outlet on the side of the island I use it on. even just 8 more inches of cord would have helped a lot.

Heats quickly but maybe not the most accurate for overall temp. But it works right out of the box and would be hard to be for sub $30.

This was a great addition for our tea drinkers at the self serve coffee bar

I absolutely love my white electric gooseneck kettle! It heats up quickly and pours smoothly, giving me great control—perfect for pour-over coffee or tea. The sleek design looks elegant on my countertop and adds a modern touch to my kitchen. Functional and beautiful!

I want to like this kettle. It is far less expensive than the Brewista I’ve been comparing side by side to decide which to keep if either, but ugh. I can get over the bit of wobble from how it is loose on its base. I can get over the buttons having scratches on arrival, even, since I am not going to be paying attention to them. I expected the base to be functional but not fancy, and I got what I paid for. Fine. Whatever they used on the inside that seems petroleum based (oily), it was also on part of the outside of the kettle. I am adept at cleaning, so again, it is a sort of hurried cheap production cost that translated in it being, on sale, forty bucks, to which I added a warranty to make it last or be replaced for 4 years post-warranty.First, there are little spots, a splattering of them on the side of the spout, that are basically discolored steel that might be on its way to rusting since it wouldn’t have hard water, I don’t think, from arrival… in any case, I set it to boil 4 pots of water through before using because 1) it arrived stinking horribly of chemicals and 2) when I poured water in, a residue was on top of the water from what I assume was some sort of protectant since it was traveling by boat across the Pacific Ocean to get here from China.I don’t think it matters, but the testing was initially done with filtered tap water since that wasn’t going to be used to drink. I obviously didn’t waste bottled water cleaning the residue from them, either (The Brewista says to clean twice but was very clean after 1 cycle, and it wasn’t spotted at all, something I expected). I don’t drink that filtered tap water, no-brushing my teeth is the closest to consumption I get with it bc there is fluoride I don’t want in my body, so it became hot water to soak residue off dishes/clean the tumbler I take my tea and coffee in and GT’s bottles I reuse day to day as my normal drinking vessels (my cat’s excited moments, basically every waking one, make her powerful whacking tail a massive liability).Once I got to the point of water being clean enough to start making drinks, my first move was testing the time to get to temp and FAR more critically the temp accuracy since I drink both coffee and all sorts of costly teas and wasn’t gonna go wrecking scorched delicate green teas or wasting ones that need high temps to fully extract flavor, either!Both were reading at the same base temp when I started according to my thermometer though they were displaying temps a degree apart. This one’s base weirdly shows the tenth of a degree which I find rather silly. A Timemore I tested in the past also did that, and it seems like they want to pretend they are fancier and more scientifically precise than any kettle is going to be for a normal cost. I get it-that costs essentially nothing whereas better accuracy is costly.The time to get to 80C was both slower for this despite a bit smaller water capacity AND kind of critically, when it said 80 degrees on 3 separate batches, its actual temp was 82.4-83.6. The Brewista’s three trials resulted in 80.0, 79.9, and 80.3C.A simple “boil water” request proved MORE infuriating. Why? Because it DID NOT BOIL WATER! I tinkered with it like crazy-less water simmered under the surface but never broke the top… it was reading 100.5C, 212.9F (I switched between just to be sure it didn’t simply have a problem calculating because it is SUCH a basic detail they failed on here). The temp read by my thermometer was 206-208F most reads as it was saying 212.9 on the display. It never went above 208.The entire time in bringing it to boil, it was 2.5-7 degrees colder than its display claimed. It would overshoot the temp (I even paused to be sure my thermometer wasn’t just slow to read, but it was a constant pattern across several tries, and the Brewista was a little the opposite way, showing sometimes a degree under the water but catching up more quickly and never wildly different.Beyond accuracy, it was consistently slower-the reading 3 degrees behind most often, the actual temp 6-10 degrees behind at any point (ya don’t need to slow down for some precision when boiling-anything above boiling temp will evaporate, after all). The end was, I assume in part to catch up to the temp not being anywhere near what was displayed, so sluggish feeling. The end result was that the Mecity was a full minute slower in heating 0.9L than Brewista was heating a liter (despite Brewista saying it uses less wattage) from room temp, 32-41 secs slower going from 80-100C (didn’t want to waste water every time so when I ran out of dirty dishes to soak, I stopped for the day with the drink I made with, of course, the Brewista that I got steady readings on, within a degree no matter the temp, the Mecity’s becoming dish water, variable temp dishwater even though I was aiming for the same every time).The spots, by the way… after boiling water, they tripled-the ones that weren’t showing on the other side appeared. Eep. I tried taking pics but my phone’s camera kept getting a glare or darkness, no real in between, so I couldn’t get a decent read. The Brewista display on the white base, at least, was hard to film in that only a couple of angles showed the numbers instead of a bright white box of light with characters I couldn’t easily see when pulling back to show both kettles to display how fast they were heating side by side.There are several annoyances with the Brewista, don’t get me wrong… heating to 80C it kept clicking loudly which I don’t think I can put up with if it is normal and not just a defective unit, and it is a bit counterintuitive for me and I am not sure if it is losing my settings or I just haven’t programmed it right for heating back up doing pour over… I was just testing water. I also am irked that the warranty is a year with no insurance options buying from them directly, so… yeah, it might, especially with that awful clicking every time I am gonna make green tea (so much for soothing gentle theanine delivery lol), go back, too.Oh, this also (surprisingly) weighs a bit more than the Brewista despite seeming like it’d be less, and the top, plastic (steel underneath), is a b—— when it comes to bits of airborne dust clinging to it like crazy, same for the little bit of rubber hiding the screw in the plastic handle. The handle is kinda weird angle-wise, and it pours out almost TOO easily if filled to the fill line or very close to it. I figure I should mention those basics even though the inaccurate temp and lack of boiling water (I am not at any wonky altitude, either, and the Brewista was roaring at 100/212 as it should be, not “contemplating whether to simmer” like the other that sometimes was barely hitting 200F!) are definite deal breakers for me!TRULY PERFECT KETTLE, WHERE ARE YOU?????