Cleaning a stainless steel tea kettle?

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Anonymous wrote:All my British and Irish family use electric kettles. We have one at our home here in the US as well.

OP here. I didn’t mean to generalize. I posted up thread that DH comes from a poor background and grew up this way. All of his family in the US is also obsessed and rigid with their way of making tea. They also use a tea pot to brew. I don’t get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

I find that interesting, because stovetop kettles are not so popular in the UK anymore - electric kettles are the thing, at least my UK friends told me so and they are the ones who turned me on to an electric kettle. My stovetop kettle has been donated to the thrift store.

My kettle is this brand: https://www.aicookhome.com/products/aicook-electric-tea-kettle8041-yy

The base on mine looks different because I got it in 2020, it was my pandemic thing - I got big into tea and discovered both the programmable kettle and Harney's tea which is terrific, haven't had a bad variety yet.

On the boil setting for black and herbal teas, the boil is very much a boil - I watch it roiling very vigorously through the clear glass and it is a much better rolling boil than I can even get when boiling pasta water on the stovetop in my le creuset. And, the boil comes much quicker than it did for me on stovetop - but I do have electric rather than gas burners.

What is terrific about the kettle is the preprogrammed settings. I didn't even realize until I took the tea journey how other kinds of tea are ruined by steeping in boiling water - green and white and oolong all require a lower heat for optimal steep. The kettle also has a timer that assists you in steeping for the proper length of time - black teas require five minutes, but other teas steep more quickly.

I honestly love my electric tea kettle, I now drink tea daily (although it has a coffee setting too, I hardly use it) and make several pots of tea for iced tea every week. (Tip for making iced tea - don't put it into the fridge until it comes to room temperature, that prevents it from getting cloudy.)

Anyway best purchase I've made in a long time. You can get cheaper ones and much more expensive ones, but I definitely think it's an appliance any tea lover should own and use.

Thank you so much for this write up!

And yes, he’s very old school. He was raised by his poor grandmother who made tea this way and he insists it’s the only way. I believe it could be sentimentality over practicality, but who knows.

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Every Brit I know has an electric kettle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

I find that interesting, because stovetop kettles are not so popular in the UK anymore - electric kettles are the thing, at least my UK friends told me so and they are the ones who turned me on to an electric kettle. My stovetop kettle has been donated to the thrift store.

My kettle is this brand: https://www.aicookhome.com/products/aicook-electric-tea-kettle8041-yy

The base on mine looks different because I got it in 2020, it was my pandemic thing - I got big into tea and discovered both the programmable kettle and Harney's tea which is terrific, haven't had a bad variety yet.

On the boil setting for black and herbal teas, the boil is very much a boil - I watch it roiling very vigorously through the clear glass and it is a much better rolling boil than I can even get when boiling pasta water on the stovetop in my le creuset. And, the boil comes much quicker than it did for me on stovetop - but I do have electric rather than gas burners.

What is terrific about the kettle is the preprogrammed settings. I didn't even realize until I took the tea journey how other kinds of tea are ruined by steeping in boiling water - green and white and oolong all require a lower heat for optimal steep. The kettle also has a timer that assists you in steeping for the proper length of time - black teas require five minutes, but other teas steep more quickly.

I honestly love my electric tea kettle, I now drink tea daily (although it has a coffee setting too, I hardly use it) and make several pots of tea for iced tea every week. (Tip for making iced tea - don't put it into the fridge until it comes to room temperature, that prevents it from getting cloudy.)

Anyway best purchase I've made in a long time. You can get cheaper ones and much more expensive ones, but I definitely think it's an appliance any tea lover should own and use.

Thank you so much for this write up!

And yes, he’s very old school. He was raised by his poor grandmother who made tea this way and he insists it’s the only way. I believe it could be sentimentality over practicality, but who knows.

.

Every Brit I know has an electric kettle.

That’s nice. I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m lying about my husband and his family, who use a kettle, but whatever!

Again, thanks for the advice on the electric kettle. I just ordered one!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All my British and Irish family use electric kettles. We have one at our home here in the US as well.

OP here. I didn’t mean to generalize. I posted up thread that DH comes from a poor background and grew up this way. All of his family in the US is also obsessed and rigid with their way of making tea. They also use a tea pot to brew. I don’t get it.

PP back to say - I don’t think you are lying. I just think perhaps your DH doesn’t realize that an electric kettle is a widely accepted way to make a proper cuppa.

I also think if he doesn’t care that the rest of British Isles and former colonies are on board, that he still is not…well that’s OK too. It IS much faster & easier though IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

I find that interesting, because stovetop kettles are not so popular in the UK anymore - electric kettles are the thing, at least my UK friends told me so and they are the ones who turned me on to an electric kettle. My stovetop kettle has been donated to the thrift store.

My kettle is this brand: https://www.aicookhome.com/products/aicook-electric-tea-kettle8041-yy

The base on mine looks different because I got it in 2020, it was my pandemic thing - I got big into tea and discovered both the programmable kettle and Harney's tea which is terrific, haven't had a bad variety yet.

On the boil setting for black and herbal teas, the boil is very much a boil - I watch it roiling very vigorously through the clear glass and it is a much better rolling boil than I can even get when boiling pasta water on the stovetop in my le creuset. And, the boil comes much quicker than it did for me on stovetop - but I do have electric rather than gas burners.

What is terrific about the kettle is the preprogrammed settings. I didn't even realize until I took the tea journey how other kinds of tea are ruined by steeping in boiling water - green and white and oolong all require a lower heat for optimal steep. The kettle also has a timer that assists you in steeping for the proper length of time - black teas require five minutes, but other teas steep more quickly.

I honestly love my electric tea kettle, I now drink tea daily (although it has a coffee setting too, I hardly use it) and make several pots of tea for iced tea every week. (Tip for making iced tea - don't put it into the fridge until it comes to room temperature, that prevents it from getting cloudy.)

Anyway best purchase I've made in a long time. You can get cheaper ones and much more expensive ones, but I definitely think it's an appliance any tea lover should own and use.

Thank you so much for this write up!

And yes, he’s very old school. He was raised by his poor grandmother who made tea this way and he insists it’s the only way. I believe it could be sentimentality over practicality, but who knows.

.

Every Brit I know has an electric kettle.

That’s nice. I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m lying about my husband and his family, who use a kettle, but whatever!

Again, thanks for the advice on the electric kettle. I just ordered one!

I don't think anyone thinks you're lying, we just think your husband is woefully out of date. My parents immigrated from Germany in the 70s and always think that everything in Germany is going to be like it was 50 years ago and obviously it is very, very different now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All my British and Irish family use electric kettles. We have one at our home here in the US as well.

OP here. I didn’t mean to generalize. I posted up thread that DH comes from a poor background and grew up this way. All of his family in the US is also obsessed and rigid with their way of making tea. They also use a tea pot to brew. I don’t get it.

I get it op. My parents came here from Ireland. A house is not a home without a kettle on the stove. I have a good whistling one from Le Crueset that cleans up nicely. See if he might be amenable to one of these.

https://www.lecreuset.com/classic-whistling-kettle/40104-SS.html

And I actually have a very small electric kettle that we end up using more often for single cups of tea. And don’t tell him this part, but my dh uses the microwave. It’s the shame of our family, my Irish relations are regularly appalled by it!