Kettle with filter

robatwork

It's a big day in the atwork household - time for a new kettle.

I live in a pretty hard water area of the SE, and a colleague recommended a kettle with a filter built in. Not particularly money saving, but tea & coffee are important enough to be worth paying for filters, if it does indeed make the drinks taste better and not fur up the kettle.

Any feedback from someone with one of these filter kettles?

(Am looking at something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-Brita-Filter-Kettle-Silver/dp/B00UMU2Z5Q/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1471081627&sr=1-2&keywords=silver+filter+kettle )

Biggles

I don't think a water filter (whether included in the kettle or separate) will soften hard water. You need a water softener to do that.

But most kettles have a scale filter built in - my Bosch does - which stops the actual limescale, once formed, from getting into your tea/coffee.

On the subject of moneysaving, however, make sure you get a kettle that can 1 Heat as little as one cup at a time; and 2 cut out when the temperature reaches a lower temperature than boiling (eg 80 or 90°C for coffee).

DigForVictory

We find this combination works best for our household:
a water filtering jug (brita the big name player, but all sorts of suppliers, here's one picked at random) &
a *very* quick one cup kettle, the Breville VKJ142 HotCup

However, that may not be a combination that works best for you.