How to choose an electric kettle, then to about anything to spare

Budget

Kettle is clearly not the sort of thing for which I want to give a lot of money. Overpay there especially not for anything, so feel free to simply brush options worth more than 5000 rubles. However, to choose quite a budget model is not worth: as practice shows, cheap devices are easily damaged, and change the kettle several times a year - fun on the fan.

Watch for discounts: sometimes manufacturers and appliance stores organize attraction of unprecedented generosity, so cool kettle can be purchased almost half the price.

housing material

As a rule, very low-end models have a plastic housing. The solution is quite clear: the material is light, cheap and looks initially quite presentable. However, not without drawbacks. A brand new kettle can exude a distinctive smell, which is not so easy to get rid of. Over time, the plastic is scratched and noticeably changes color. For example, white tea can easily turn yellow.

Another option - metal. With the smell there will be no problems, but will have to accept the inevitable appearing on the surface with fingerprints. In addition, the metal casing heats up significantly, so there is a risk of accidentally burned.

Finally, glass. Of course, tempered, which transcend the boiling water. Glass kettles look quite well and will fit into any interior without problems.

Despite its apparent fragility, not so easy to break a tea - is that with all his strength to bang it on the tiled floor. However, if you know a lot of fans rush teapots?

Power

Everything is simple: the higher the power of the heating element, the water will boil faster. Or knocks out traffic jams, if you house everything is bad with the electrician. Optimal - capacity in the region of 2 000-2 500 watts. Of course, it is necessary to wait until the water heats up, but there is no risk that the planned tea party turns into gatherings with candles.

We conducted an experiment kettle with heating element power 2200 W two liters of water heated to 23 to 100 degrees for 7 minutes 16 seconds. Gangbusters.

A heating element

The usual spiral is not the best option. The thing is inevitably formed inside the kettle plaque. If the inner surface of the housing it can be removed by chemical means and physical force to clean the helix to the initial state - virtually impossible task. Kettle with spiral, covered with a thick layer of scale, slower heats the water, and the taste of this water leaves much to be desired.

With the disk or concealed heating element in this plan is much simpler. Firstly, you can clean them easily. Secondly, such kettles can boil water faster due to a larger area of ​​the heating surface.

Clever tea or plain?

Progress does not stop. Although we tend to think that tea is simply to boil water, the current models can be so much more. For example, an intelligent Maker REDMOND SkyKettle RK-G200S with the possibility of remote control capable of heating water to a temperature necessary for you to the degree, and also store heat for 12 hours. Yes, kettle, which can include a pair of Taps on the screen, while away from home - it's not fancy gadget lovers, but it is a daily thing.

To manage smart appliances by REDMOND, you need Ready For Sky app, available for devices on iOS and Android. Turn on Bluetooth and bind Kettle to your account, it will take just a couple of minutes.

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Ready for Sky

Developer: Ready for Sky LLP

Price: Free

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Ready for Sky

Developer: Ready For Sky

Price: Free

Voila - all the possibilities of the kettle at a glance. Turn on and off it, adjust the temperature of hot water, boiling duration, brightness and color of the backlight. The application can lock the control buttons, tapnuv on the icon with a lock.

The latter option is useful to parents who worry that a curious child in their absence will be messing with kettle and hot water inadvertently obolotsya. With security, by the way, there's a full order, if the kettle without water, the device will automatically shut down in case of overheating.

Kettle lead performance statistics, so in a special tab you will see how many times it turned on and a number of consumed energy.

Remote control

This chip you will fully appreciate at the office. With the usual kettle everything is pretty sad. Include it in the common kitchen and go do things: do not wait just until the water boils. Back - empty kettle. Alas, more nimble colleagues used the courtesy of boiling water. In the case of smart kettle, this situation is practically excluded. You turn it from a smartphone, without departing from the workplace, and make sure that it will be possible to follow a portion of hot tea or coffee.

Kettle controlled via Bluetooth, where, for a stable connection a mobile device should be within 15 meters. To interact with the kettle, being away for a few kilometers, you can purchase a control unit REDMOND Gateway - a smartphone, which is already installed R4S Gateway application. Leave the unit home and communicating with them via mobile internet, and it distributes intelligent team via Bluetooth technology. It turns out very convenient: go home, turn on the kettle through the app, so your return is hot.

You can pre-configure a schedule for switching the kettle. Let's say you like the morning cup of coffee, but hate to wait for the water to boil. No problem. Assign a time when the tea should give you hot water, and everything will be in the best possible way.

backlight

Some annoying love modern manufacturers to introduce illumination anywhere, but in the case of the kettle this decision is appropriate. Suppose you went at night to the kitchen to drink some water, but do not dare turn on the lights so as not to rouse the entire household. In REDMOND RK-G200S this is the case there is a mode "Night Light" - you can specify the range of colors, and the frequency with which they change.

At rest, the tea is poured by all colors of the rainbow and provides adequate lighting to move around the kitchen without the risk of something crashing. It looks admittedly impressive.

Heating to the degree

Make a good tea is not as easy as it seems. If we are talking about lowly drink from a bag, and boiling water will come down, but Oolong wrong temperature simply kill.

The Ready For Sky application, you can select the mode that is ideal for making oolong tea, black, green or yellow tea. To the kettle REDMOND RK-G200S attached recipe book for lovers of tea parties, where available and required for the brewing water temperature.

The ability to accurately heating useful parents. To dissolve baby milk mixture can simply heat the water to 35 or 40 degrees, rather than waiting until the boiling water cools.

Select temperature can be either through the application, and with keys: there is heated to embodiments 40, 55, 70 or 85 degrees.

maintaining temperature

You turn on the kettle, well forget about it, but remember, only when the water has cooled. You turn again, forget again... In general, it's pretty boring, but familiar to all history.

REDMOND kettle can maintain the set temperature 12 hours. It is worth it to fall at least one degree, the device then heats the water. In principle, this can and Airpots but REDMOND RK-G200S has an important advantage - compactness. When it comes to small kitchen or office canteen, where a free place usually still difficult, the choice is obvious.

additional Features

Modern teapots are able to surprise. How do you, for example, tea, who knows how to play with the kids? Ready For Sky app offers a choice of three games: "Guess the color", "Train your attention" and "Train your memory." If the water temperature is too high, thoughtful maker will warn you that the child accidentally obzhogsya.

Another pleasant surprise - mode "Disco-tea". You turn on the music, and REDMOND RK-G200S starts winking illuminated it in tact. Fun entertainment for lovers of home parties.

REDMOND makers can monitor the freshness of the water. If it is already stagnant, the app will remind you that it is time to replace it with fresh.

There will be no problems with the definition of the water temperature: it is easily recognized by the backlight. You can even customize the color range to be understood at a glance, the boiling water in a kettle or not.

Kettle - representative of kitchen equipment that is used, perhaps more often. If it is heated for a long time or is leaking, it infuriates. In order not to get irritated in vain, come to the choice of the kettle with all possible care.