Kettle - preferably vintage cherry red.

[vintageteacups]

Hi,

I boiled the kettle with no water in it the other night and it went 'pop' and now refuses to work. DH is away and said let's just get a new kettle. My dad said it's probably just the fuse as most have boil dry safety cut out thing?

Anyway - seeing as how it's over 10 years old (how green is that?) and it's a Tefal Vitesse (white, jug style, plastic), I was wondering what to get next.

Okay - so have a vintage style kind og happening in the kitchen with accents of cherry red on metal signs/wall clock etc so thought a red kettle would look cool.

however - checked out loads of reviews on Amazon this morning and they are so mixed! Every single review, even for expensive kettles, had something like leaks from window after a few weeks or had to take back after breaking after 2 weeks etc.

Can someone tell me a great kettle - good pouring spout that doesn't just lob out the water, a flat base on which it boils, not brushed/polished steel look and that doesn't cost £74.99.

Red would be good but white plastic just as fine.

Thank you .

We have the red DeLonghi round one. We've had it about ammonth and it's fine. It was about £50. To be honest non of them are brilliantly engineered but then I think they expect people to replace fairly regularly. 10 years from a kettle is truly impressive.

Heeheee - guess what? I showed DH today when he got back and I said that perhaps it had just blown the fuse.

He filled it and switched it on and hey presto, it boiled! I reckon the safety cut off had caused it to stop and then when I immediately tried to put it on to test it, it was still overheated and so refused to work. Once it had cooled down, it now works fine.

Perhaps there's another 10 years left in it.

I was filled with glee when it worked - I have become very attached to it

My kettle is 14 years old

Hurrah for the Phoenix from the Flames plastic kettle

14??? There's hope then.
I have made about 7 cuppas since half 3 just to make doubly sure it's back for good.

I have just checked and it is a Russell Hobbs 3120.

I am its second owner, saving it from almost certain dumping by its original owner when they no longer had need of it 11 years ago

Oh - just checked out the model number on their own website and they no longer make it. But there were some nice ones, including a red one so will check out a reserve just in case.

It's this one in older clothes

I like the red one on there