Which kettle is the quietest? help please

[womanofdulwich]

I made a mistake and bought a " quiet kettle "last year from Russell Hobbs but its actually quite noisy. There are some quite expensive ones on the market which I dont mind investing in ( within reason) if they are quiet- can anyone recommend one please? I had not realised how noisy a kettle is if you make an open plan room!

[Robert Poste's Child]

I've got the 'quiet' Russell Hobbs one too. It's a bit quieter than my previous Tefal one, but only as if a slightly smaller train has entered the station.

When it conked out briefly a while back I bought a cheap Asda own-brand 'fast boil' one which was much quieter and leas than half the price. At the time it was the only budget one on Good Housekeeping's recommended list.

[Renata Hamvas]

I think traditional ones that you put on a hob are quieter than electric, but you have the whistle when they are boiling and need to remove them/turn off energy source when they boil!

[Robert Poste's Child]

Looking back over kettles I've owned (for such is my life now) I think the plastic ones were all quieter than metal.

[Pugwash]

Look up in the 'Which' magazines - they regularly test kettles for noise. We have a Phillips - a little noisy but not too bad.

[womanofdulwich]

Pugwash ,you have to pay for Which magazine I think. I've seen some articles mention a dualit kettle but it's quite pricey 🤔

[rendelharris]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Pugwash ,you have to pay for Which magazine I

> think. I've seen some articles mention a dualit

> kettle but it's quite pricey 🤔

Sorry to link to a S*n article but they have all the results of the Which kettle test here with no need to pay: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/2181585/the-best-kettles-revealed-including-one-that-costs-just-12/

[Sue]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Pugwash ,you have to pay for Which magazine I

> think. I've seen some articles mention a dualit

> kettle but it's quite pricey 🤔

You can trial Which online.

Or Google kettle reviews, if you haven't already.

I have a plastic Bodum. It's quite old. I've never even noticed the noise, so I suppose it must be quite quiet!

[womanofdulwich]

Rendel harris - the sun/which article is not to be trusted as I know a few people like me that bought the Russell Hobbs quiet kettle and it is really noisy!

[DovertheRoad]

Renata Hamvas Wrote:

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> I think traditional ones that you put on a hob are

> quieter than electric, but you have the whistle

> when they are boiling and need to remove them/turn

> off energy source when they boil!

This ^^.

[muffins78]

I think they are quieter when you first buy them, then because of the hard water they become noisy until you descale them.

Recently changed from a smart kettle to a Smeg one as a treat. I?ve replaced it three times for various reasons and wish I hadn?t bought it now. Each time a new one comes it?s quiet but then the limescale kicks in (that?s not why I replaced, each was either faulty or became faulty)!

The smart kettle had same issues with noise until deacaled- firget the brand I had before that-but same issues.

[intexasatthe moment]

That's my experience muffin ,the limescale makes them noisy .

If I want a quiet kettle I have to descale every week . Currently trialling those little wire mesh bundles that you drop in . But don't seem to help .

Wonder if the plastic kettles reduce the limescale build up and are quieter as a result ?

[Michael Palaeologus]

I have a Dualit, which is quite quiet, although, much like aircraft noise or road noise, it depends on your personal benchmark.

I also use the wire mesh bundles to keep the scaling down. They will never stop scaling, but it does mean that I only have to do a proper chemical descaling every few years. When fully entombed in scale, you can revive your bundle by bashing it with a mallet under a gently running tap. The scale crumbles and comes away from the mesh with some vigorous whacking.

[Proxima Centauri]

Pugwash Wrote:

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> Look up in the 'Which' magazines - they regularly

> test kettles for noise. We have a Phillips - a

> little noisy but not too bad.

Yes Which Mags are very good. Public Libraries often subscribe to them so you should be able to look through them for free there.

[muffins78]

I?ve a wire mesh bundle thing too - it doesn?t help! Descale weekly now!

I?ve no idea how my dishwasher has survived and washing machine!

[Robert Poste's Child]

I always use filtered water, so there's never any scale inside the kettle, but it's still noisy. I think the noise of the Russell Hobbs kettle must be measured at the point of boil rather than from the point where you switch it on as the noise does drop at the end.

[Mick Mac]

A boiling water tap is the way forward, you'll never look back, honest.

[Robert Poste's Child]

How do you find the taste in tea, Mick Mac? Whenever I've come across one of them the water didn't taste like freshly boiled water should if you're making tea but perhaps the institutional ones aren't cleaned as often as they should be. Also, how do you find the cost of having it running all the time compared with a kettle?

[womanofdulwich]

Good question!

[uncleglen]

Don#t you just love these first world problems.....

[rendelharris]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> Don#t you just love these first world

> problems.....

uncleglen, April 16th: "I loathe when the weather is nice and you get a coffee and go to sit outside and you are immediately surrounded by morons chain smoking."

[ruffers]

We have a ridiculously expensive dualit classic kettle, expensive but very quiet.

[JohnL]

I hated London water when I moved here - i'm used to it now :)

My kettle is full of limescale though - I just replace in the end.

[joom]

I invested in a dualit and am very happy. It is quiet and looks great. Also, the element is replaceable should it go wrong.

[alex_b]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> How do you find the taste in tea, Mick Mac?

> Whenever I've come across one of them the water

> didn't taste like freshly boiled water should if

> you're making tea but perhaps the institutional

> ones aren't cleaned as often as they should be.

> Also, how do you find the cost of having it

> running all the time compared with a kettle?

I find the taste to be absolutely fine for tea, coffee and herbal tea. We're more coffee drinkers than tea drinkers though so you might be more sensitive to taste. We did have to turn the heat up from the initial setting to get it nearer to boiling, it might be that ones you've used are turned down a bit.

For us not having bench space taken up with a kettle was a big plus. We also use it all the time for cold filtered water and to fill pots for cooking so it gets a lot of use. Just to set expectations on noise, you do hear the tank heating up occasionally. It's much much quieter than a kettle, but it comes on at random times rather than when you're using water.

Energy wise, we haven't noticed it being particularly expensive to run. The tank is really well insulated and there's a benefit of not boiling too much water from cold and then letting it cool down.

We have an InSinkerator unit with a tap that matches our main kitchen tap. I ours is rated to 98 degrees, there are ones that do true boiling but they have obviously different tap styles.