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oldMcDonald

Sunnyday wrote: »

I would love to know the answer to this one too as we do exactly the same some days.
We have a dw and when it finally goes to that great big dishwasher place in the sky we won`t be replacing it, back to permanently boiling the kettle/ putting the water on whichever reveals itself to be cheapest.
I suspect it will be the kettle but have no idea how to work out the cost
Sorry i couldn`t be of more help.
SD

Why don't you ask over on the 'In My Home' board? (I would be very interested to know the answer as well!) I had a question about my hot water timer (if it was cheaper to leave the water on all the time or heat whole tank as needed), and they were really helpfull and worked out the sums for me. They are a really useful bunch for working out the answers to electricity/gas usage type questions.

mirry

went into Robert Dyas today and purchased a eco kettle and have just made my fist cup of tea with it.
I am impressed , it can be filled up to 1 cup or 8 cups , so i filled it for 2 cups. It took exactly 30 seconds to boil and filled 2 cup exactly .

It claims to use 35% less electricity and cost £29.99.

Magentasue

mirry wrote: »

went into Robert Dyas today and purchased a eco kettle and have just made my fist cup of tea with it.
I am impressed , it can be filled up to 1 cup or 8 cups , so i filled it for 2 cups. It took exactly 30 seconds to boil and filled 2 cup exactly .

It claims to use 35% less electricity and cost £29.99.

There's a thread about these on the green and ethical board. Consensus is they're not worth buying (mostly people who haven't got one!) but they do have their fans.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1123987

ka7e

I have one and quite like it. It is definitely quieter than my old Morphy Richards kettle, and I think it's quicker - but it could just be that I'm boiling less water - which would seem to be the aim! I use very large coffee mugs, equivalent to about 1 and a half cups on the gauge, but you soon learn to adjust quantities.

It is a bit unwieldy when full and occasionally gets a bit of an airlock between the 2 tanks. I wouldn't recommend it for someone without a firm grip.

I got it because our old kettle was leaking, I wouldn't have bought it to replace a working kettle. My Dad measures cupfuls of water to put in his kettle every time he uses it, the Eco-kettle is just the high-tech way of doing it!

Magentasue

I know exactly where to fill my kettle to (on the guage) for one or two cups. For more, I just double or whatever. So it doesn't seem that I would benefit from an eco-kettle. I'd rather use water fresh from the tap rather than water that's been standing in the kettle. But ... they're supposed to be energy saving - would they save me energy and, if so, how?

cw18

Only way I can see they save energy is

1 - possibly capable of boiling smaller quantities of water and/or measuring more acurately how much to boil

2 - if the water going into it has been standing at room temperature, then it's going to boil quicker than cold-cold from the tap

mirry

I think it depends on what kettle you buy ,
we recently purchased one from dixons - and then had to send it back because it was faulty , the lady said alot of people were returning them .

The old kettle I was using took 3 mins to boil enough for 2 cups,,,
however this kettle takes only 30 seconds , and it silent.
I love it - and its gonna save me money .

This is it ......
http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=311&storeId=91&productId=38459&langId=-1&cache_entry=-1&parent_category_rn=&parents_parent_category_rn=&top_category_rn=&showSubCategory=&top=Y&fromPage=SearchResults

sammyjig

We've just recently bought one of these kettles as well. I am the same as Ka7e, I wouldn't buy one to replace a working kettle, our old one broke. It does boil very quickly and I think it will save me energy because its boiled by the time I have got out the cups/coffee/tea etc where as with my old kettle I would go away to do something else, get distracted and then have to go back and put the kettle on again!

mirry

we replaced ours because our old kettle broke,
I really like this kettle .

Also when out today we got some candles.

Magentasue

mirry, the thread i referred to was about a different kettle. Yours looks like an ordinary kettle - how is it energy saving? Is it made of some kind of super-insulated material?