Chefman Electric Tea Kettle, 1.8 Liter Hot Water Electric Kettle Temperature Control Water Boiler with 5 Presets, Tri-Colored LED Lights, Keep Warm, Automatic Shutoff, Stainless

******* UPDATE: Literally within 3 days of first use, the digital display died, and so temperature control no longer works. This renders the unit worthless unless all you want is boiling hot water. I’ll be contacting the company during their service hours to see if this is fixable or will require a warranty return. I was ready to love this unit, but now I’m willing to be bitterly disappointed in it. ***** If you, like we, have limited kitchen countertop space, you know that you can't clutter it up with appliances that you just don't use that often or are a pain to use. That is exactly how we evaluate any new purchase for our kitchen: is it counter-worthy? The Chefman electric tea kettle is, in our opinion, definitely that.We make slow pour coffee in a French press every morning, which means, first of all, that water must be heated, and we were using a regular tea kettle on a gas stove. Took about 14 minutes to get to the proper brewing temp, and then ANOTHER 4 minutes or so to brew in the carafe. That is a LOOOONG time to wait in the morning for a cup of joe. Well, this electric kettle cuts that time in half, and allows me to dial-in the precise water temperature. The bright colored LEDs let me know the status of the water, so no more guessing. It's quite attractive as well (we got the moss green version, which goes perfectly in our kitchen color scheme). Easy to clean (even though all we do is boil water, not brew tea in it).I really, really love this electric tea kettle. We rate it absolutely counter-worthy, a full 5-stars in every way.

I bough this for a Christmas present for my mother. She had an electric kettle however she hated it. She had one previously that beeped when it was finished boiling and loved that feature. So when she got the one she had she figured it was going to have that also but was sadly mistaken. I read the reviews and watched the videos that people posted and was pleasantly impressed with this one. So I purchased it for her. Since then she uses daily. It boils fast. It beeps. It has a keep warm setting. It has an auto shut off after a while. She absolutely loves it! Her favorite feature is the keep warm setting that we were unaware of, so that after you boil your water other people at breakfast can come and get tea as they stagger in and not have to keep boiling the water. It’s pretty nice.

I bought this unit because:* I was looking for a kettle with temperature adjustment beyond the standard presets* I wanted one that heated fast* I wanted water level indication WITHOUT plastic in contact with the waterIt works well and delivers on the above points. I recommend this kettle.Here are some other comments:* I think the LEDs work well and are a nice feature. White for standby, Red for heating, Green for at setpoint or keep warm.* I could not find a kettle with a level indication that did NOT have plastic. This unit obviously is nearly all glass, so you can easily see the level. There is only stainless steel and glass in contact with the water.* Note that the top is not hinged. It pulls off completely from the kettle if this matters to you.* Temperature control is via 5 presets OR you can select any temp you want, in 5 degree (F) increments.* You can switch between F and C, if this matters to you.* You can shut off the auditory indication that setpoint is reached, if this matters to you.* This unit comes with a tea diffuser which I have no intention of using.* Note that the 'keep warm' function, I find quite useless. When boiling water, I left it on keep warm, when I came back to the unit later, the keep warm temp was 150F. So it doesn't keep the water at the setpoint you previously set; it literally is just keeping it warm. I won't use it so it doesn't bother me.

We have been using chefman electric kettles for over a decade now, and actually purchased the previous version twice, we liked it so much. So when our most recent one finally gave up the ghost, I was sad to see that it had been discontinued, but was perfectly willing to switch over to the "new and improved" model.What a let-down.It's beautiful, and has a nicely small footprint, and the different colored LEDs for different functions are neat, but that's about all it has going for it.The "keep warm" function...doesn't. I'll boil a kettle, make a cup, then come back an hour later to make another one, only to find that the temp has dropped down to 140. So it doesn't hold temp any more than if I'd just turned the thing off and let it cool naturally.When the water is between 165 and 185F, the thing makes a sound like a distant tornado siren. It's loud enough that it drives the dogs nuts, which is a real adventure when I'm trying to be quiet while getting ready in the morning.The base gets HOT. Not the kind of hot you expect from an electrical device that's literally boiling water right above it, but hot as in I actually burned my fingers moving it after it shifted when lifting the kettle off of it.Finally....the beeping. Even if everything else worked perfectly, the beeping would be a deal breaker. Specifically, the way it beeps every few seconds after reaching temp, letting you know that it's ready to steep. It does this for 5 minutes, before finally switching over to "keep warm". Which again, it doesn't. Keep warm, that is. I'm never going to steep tea in this kettle. They desperately need an option to turn off the steeping prompts. Or only prompt for steeping on the temperatures that have a tea associated with them, and add a second option on each of those temperatures for just heating water, like they do the "212 - boil" setting.You can mute the beeping by holding the down arrow + start/stop, but that takes away the notification that your water is up to temp. I like knowing when my water is ready, so...choose the lesser evil, I guess.Maybe I got a lemon. Most reviewers don't seem to have any of these issues. But I don't know for sure, because I've reached out to Chefman twice over the last week and a half for product support, and haven't heard a peep.Like I said, I used to really like Chefman, and their products, but both of them have really let me down with this bloody awful kettle.