Kettles - plastic or stainless steel?

[Littlemiss74]

Need a new kettle and been reading that stainless steel are better than plastic. Never really thought about it before but we've always had plastic.

Please recommend me your kettle - I am rubbish when it comes to having too much choice!

I've got a glass one and I love it.

Boils fast, fun to watch (yes, I'm a bit lame like that), and I actually CLEAN it now because any limescale is completely obvious!

Makes me gak a bit now to think how rarely I cleaned my old one and all the stuff that must have been bobbing about in it...

I have a Bosch which is great. I went off stainless steel. People don't like plastic because they think it leaks into the water. I couldn't have a glass one because I have really bad limescale where I am.

Mine is white which is regrettable and it boils fast, isn't too loud, is easy to disassemble to clean and doesn't leak.

I think I'll get a Bosch Styline next though.

Don't buy one that is coated/painted metal. The coating always comes off where you open the lid. The best one I ever had was the delonghi one that is faceted like a diamond.

Sage by Heston tea machine - it's the dog's but then I don't drink coffee

I've had a lot of kettles and my current one cost just over a fiver from a supermarket. We've had it almost ten years now. At the beginning of each month, I boil water and add a teaspoon of citric acid. By the time the water has cooled, it's clean despite our water being super hard.

While I've spent a lot of money on other appliances (my bean to cup coffee machine, for example), I'm not convinced you gain much from buying an expensive kettle.

I'd just buy one that you like the look of.

@cynderella Where do you get the citric acid?

@Franticbutterfly - from eBay or Amazon.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZQP5FCD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?psc=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8

When the water has cooled in the kettle, I use it to descale the coffee maker, so I get a lot out of a teaspoon! It fizzes, so you have to allow for that when you use it. I do it on or around 1st of the month, so I remember.

I also use it to clean toilets; well, to descale them.