[Closed] £95 For a Kettle - Worth It?

In fact, Costco are now only selling kettles and toasters made by Dualit.

I reckon they've got tired of people returning all the crappy ones and have decided to sell ones that don't fail.

Frankly, if it cost £30 and lasted 3 years, I'd buy another one.

For £90 I'd want some rare elements in it.

Mine cost £8 from the Asda a year ago. It leaks like buggery, but the water's hot.

The costcos returns que is always a mile long.
I remember seeing a gentlemen stood in the que holding a rather dishevelled double mattress complete with many and varied stains. I thought you have got to have a brass neck to return a mattress that appears to have been owned by a doubly incontinent sex fiend.

Old school stove top kettle here, pretty much indestructible. On induction it's faster than my old plug in kettle too.

It's a lifestyle choice

I use costco to supply my toasters. We've killed a couple of dualits so far as well.
Look at 100 as a kettle for life...

Did similar and sainsburys ended up with a £70 kettle.

It was lasting well until i fully submerged it in descaler. I was reading the instructions for a shower head. It lasted a week or two more before giving it up. 😯

For £90 I'd want some rare elements in it.

Frankly, if it cost £30 and lasted 3 years, I'd buy another one.

Time machine to go back 3 years to when they actually sold that kettle, and had it on special offer ?

Years ago my missus decided we HAD to have an Alessi hob kettle for £100+. Lovely to look at but a PITA as it takes up a hob space and is slow to boil.

So 2yrs on and we agreed to get the same kettle but electric. Of course it was another £100+. More practical sure, and looks nice, but it doesn't make my tea taste any better.

Only worth paying that sort of money for aesthetics IMO.

I remember seeing a gentlemen stood in the que holding a rather dishevelled double mattress complete with many and varied stains. I thought you have got to have a brass neck to return a mattress that appears to have been owned by a doubly incontinent sex fiend.

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Maybe I should have started a "what's the worst thing you've seen returned at Costco" thread.

I'd like to buy the same kettle again but unfortunately now it's Dualit or nothing.

Hob kettles are handy if you've got a range that's always hot. With electric hobs they're pants.

we go through kettles and toasters a lot

That's a no then, surely?

Kettles are one of the more fail-prone consumer durables. Don't spend too much.

Only worth paying that sort of money for aesthetics IMO.

Or something that looks ok and will last 20+ years.

I bought a Phipps brushed chrome jug kettle for about £70 in 1998 when I bought my first house.
Still looks the same and works the same.

How the chuff are you destroying kettles so fast? I can’t ever remember having one fail!
We have a Dualit (to match the toaster) and it’s faultless, but it wasn’t anywhere near £100. I seem to remember £50-odd. It does boil water a lot faster than a cheap plastic thing, but that’s all it does. Boil water...
It’s like anything, if you want a nice thing you have to pay for it.

That's a no then, surely?

Kettles are one of the more fail-prone consumer durables. Don't spend too much.

Yeah but Costco will refund me the cash at any point in the future if it breaks. I guess I just resent having to put £95 into the kettle bank rather than the usual £30-50.

Although I suppose it's only £65 seeing as they just gave me back £30.

You do know if you buy it you will have to buy the matching toaster.

What's wrong with a £20 one from sainsburies? Boiled water nice and fast and looks fairly nice if you like chrome

short answer , no.

1982 Dualit toaster still going strong. Wouldn't want to pour water in it though.

Pffft. Saved all the bother with Kettles by installing an £800 hot tap.

I got a Philips one from Argo for £40 because it was well-reviewed (I know - I'm sad). After 4 years a piece of plastic broke in the lid, but it was still useable. I phoned Philips for a replacement bit of plastic and they sent me a whole new kettle free of charge.

So based on my experience, give Morphy Richards a call. They might surprise you.

If not - get the Dualit. It might not be cost effective in terms of £/cup, but you'll save the environment from the waste of disposable kettles.

Edit: also looks like you can get a De Longi for £69: [url= http://www.costco.co.uk/view/c/appliances-security/small-appliances/kettles-toasters ]Costo kettles[/url]

I thought you have got to have a brass neck to return a mattress that appears to have been owned by a doubly incontinent sex fiend.

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Genuinely laughing out loud in public with that one.

I wouldn't pay for a Dualit toaster or kettle.
That said, my dad's Dualit is 20 years old and will be the first thing into oab household when he passes. 😉
We have a 15 year old Kitchen Aid mixer - I've replaced brushes twice and just done crown gear it's been used so much. Much better than chucking cheap gear all the time.

We have a 15 year old Kitchen Aid mixer - I've replaced brushes twice and just done crown gear it's been used so much. Much better than chucking cheap gear all the time.

We have my mum's Kenwood Chef. She bought it new in 1962. Use it every week.

How do we break kettles? Big house. Lots of inmates. Visitors almost every day. A lot of cuppas. Plus I work at home so even more cuppas. Most last a year or so.

I bought any number of expensive kettles, which always pegged out after a couple of years, then my folks bought a plain black plastic kettle, I think from Asda, cost about £15-17, and it’s still in use seven or eight years on.

We had a pricy Dualit kettle for a few years, eventually it failed due to a poor design (I took it to bits to try to fix it, so I could see how it failed).

Then we bought a somewhat more pricy stove top enamelled Le Creuset job, which lasted a couple of years before rusting through. Happily John Lewis replaced it under warranty, this time with a yet-more-pricy shiny chrome Le Creuset job. Lasted 18 months before the wife killed it by boiling it dry for 40 mins or so.

So my takeaway is that there is no such thing as a kettle for life. We just use a saucepan now, boils water just as well plus you can make your tea in it.

No, not at all.

Took our latest failed kettle - Morphy Richards - today, after 3yrs service

You take a kettle back after 3 years? wow, that's a level of tightness i've never seen before

Aldi, obvs

Who the hell uses a kettle anyway? Haven’t you got a huge array of upmarket coffee machines?

Mrs insisted on matching Dualit kettle & toaster when we had the kitchen redone. Toaster still toasting, kettle started leaking after around 2 years. Gone cheap ever since and they've all lasted longer.

You can break kettles? Never known it (Morphy Richards owner).

Mate wanted a kettle for his new flat about 14 years ago and bought a Porsche one for about £60/70. A Porsche kettle ffs!! 😀

We've got the Kitchen Aid Artisan Kettle. And yes, you read that right plebs - [b]Artisan[/b]. I can't remember what it cost but it was + €130.

I actually hate using it but it does have one saving grace, it's very very quiet and I bloody hate the noise a kettle makes.

Was it a £20 VW kettle originally, but they changed the badge and tripled the price? 😀

You take a kettle back after 3 years? wow, that's a level of tightness i've never seen before

Well I'm going to Costco anyway, I don't need a receipt seeing as they just check your membership purchases on the computer and they're gonna hand me some money in place of my dead kettle. It's a no brainer.

I returned a Bosch Car battery (4yr one) about 4.5yrs after I'd bought it. They refunded me and bought another one to replace it. Simple.

They sell these 12v Portable Jump Start Packs with Compressor built-in. Normally last 2-3yrs before they don't hold a charge any more. Bought one about 10yrs ago and now on the fourth one. They refund each one and I just buy a new one on the way out.

I do the same with Screwfix Heat guns at work.
BOSCH commercialcial one £100+
Screwfix own brand £30 with 12 month warranty.
We have about 6 at work so each time one fails it goes back for replacement. Heat guns for life.

Costco lady I spoke to told me that they used to sell loads of big TV's before Christmas and when a big footy tournament is on. They all get returned for a credit after Christmas / end of footy.
I think they have changed their policy on the electrical goods now..

Yeah they have a more stringent policy on TVs and computers.

They used to have an unlimited return period on white goods, which I used to rely on with washing machines, but now they've cut it to 2yrs I think.

Like many things in our modern life of course it is not WORTH it. Neither is a bike that costs thousands of pounds or a computer that costs £1500 or a phone that costs £1000. These things have profit margins of hundreds of percent slapped on them. But what's worth got to do with it? People buy these things because they think they're buying into a lifestyle and portraying an image they want to other people. It's completely narcissistic and cannot be justified in any other way.

By the way I ditched the kettle 2 years ago for a Quooker. How narcissistic am I! But it is brilliant. Not £600 brilliant, but brilliant all the same. I'd have another and would compromise on every other item in the kitchen to get one.

The problem these days is that everything is built down to a price and everybody expects stuff to be really cheap to buy as a result.

Most broken stuff never gets fixed. It just goes into landfill. Maybe if people returned faulty stuff more often, retailers would demand more reliable items and manufacturers would build things to last.

I'd be happy to pay top dollar for kit that I knew would last a long time and be repairable if it failed. Hence I'll go for the kettle.

I'm with Wobbliscott - What are these kettles you speak of, I expect my boiling water to come straight from the tap. The Quooker is the only thing I'm taking with me from this house when I move.

I'm not interested in "lifestyle" or even "style" - if you've seen me dress.

I just want stuff to work.

I like the Quooker. My brother has a similar( but pricier) system. Trouble is, we're in a rented house so even if we could afford it, we wouldn't.

I had 3 wallpaper steamers off Wickes but this was in the space of a few months. I'm surprised they take a kettle back after 2 years.

Knew I shouldn't have opened this thread.

We've got a kitchenaid kettle that I am choosing to believe cost £20.

I'd be happy to pay top dollar for kit that I knew would last a long time and be repairable if it failed. Hence I'll go for the kettle.

We had a Dualit kettle that failed. It wasn't repairable - in fact it seemed to be designed so that it was impossible to take apart without breaking it further. The kettles seem well made but don't expect them to be like the traditional Dualit toasters that can be repaired with a hammer and a screwdriver.

Save yourself the money and replace the element with the "Silverfish - Haven't found their Mojo yet....." thread

Was it a £20 VW kettle originally, but they changed the badge and tripled the price?

Most likely he walked in, realised he could only afford the base model so bought that then paid for a 'replacement' Turbo sticker to put on it so he didn't look like a cheapskate 😀

Our last kettle was a £40 Russell Hobbs thing, lasted about 8 years and eventually the contacts in the charging base wore out, kettle itself was fine. Just bought the same model again.

At £90 I would want it to cook my full English for me while waiting for the water to boil.

We had a Dualit kettle that failed. It wasn't repairable - in fact it seemed to be designed so that it was impossible to take apart without breaking it further.

There seem to be two Dualit ranges.

The cheap(er) range of non repairable stuff and more expensive range of fixable stuff.

15 quid job. Cover the translucent level indicator in electric tape and see if you can beat the 15 years you got out the last one that still worked, but UV light had destroyed the indicator!

Had a look at the kettle my folks bought, at least six or seven years ago, and it’s a Russell Hobbs, and I’m sure it was only around £17-19, and it’s still working fine.
I think it’s the predecessor to this one, which is £21.99:
https://uk.russellhobbs.com/russell-hobbs-products/kettles/black-kettles/textures-plastic-kettle-black-21271

We spent £40 on a 'quiet' kettle.

It was great, so my MiL stole it.

And I'd happily spend more on a kettle with different temperature settings...

I've got the Kitchen Aid Artisan - half price in last years colour. The adjustable temp is very handy, plus the outside doesn't get hot.

Pan of water on the stove with a lid, boil what you need, save the planet and your wallet? 😉

For home use one of this from John Lewis ...
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We (I) bought a Cuiseart stainless steel one because it looked good and fitted in well. Lasted just under 2 years and I can't find the receipt to return it :(. Crap

Liking the temperature settings though so would pay for that again

My gf has an Alessi stove top kettle. I detest the thing. I swear it takes about 4 times as long to boil (gas hob), is difficult to tell how much water is in it and the whistling.....Christ, the whistling.

Because it takes a week to boil, I'll invariably get into doing something else while I wait. Sometimes that thing is toilet based. How does it know to start violently whistling just as you're at the most indisposed!?

Bloody things. 👿

What I'd like to know is are they more or less energy efficient compared to electric kettles. My guess is drastically less efficient. I need scientific evidence to add to my campaign to get rid of it 😀

She's got a really old Dualit toaster too. That's great though, except if you like doorstops like me. The openings are pretty thin.

You are paying £83 over the odds.

Was it a £20 VW kettle originally, but they changed the badge and tripled the price?
Most likely he walked in, realised he could only afford the base model so bought that then paid for a 'replacement' Turbo sticker to put on it so he didn't look like a cheapskate

He should of just got his mate/BiL to pay for it, if he couldn't afford it.

Lingkettles?

lingskettles?