Fed up with kettles

[PabloPicasso]

I'm fed up with the pathetic reliability of modern kettle whistles. It's the one item that I've on board that has proved useless. Expensive fast boilers, to cheap camping hobbies, the whistles have all been pathetic, unreliable, or uselessly short working lives.

Has anyone fared better with recently bought kettles. I'd really like to know when and where. Is it too much to ask, a kettle with a loud whistle, that lasts more then 5 minutes.

Most modern kettles have whispy plastic whistles. Surely there's something better?

 

[VicS]

I'm fed up with the pathetic reliability of modern kettle whistles. It's the one item that I've on board that has proved useless. Expensive fast boilers, to cheap camping hobbies, the whistles have all been pathetic, unreliable, or uselessly short working lives.

Has anyone fared better with recently bought kettles. I'd really like to know when and where. Is it too much to ask, a kettle with a loud whistle, that lasts more then 5 minutes.

Most modern kettles have whispy plastic whistles. Surely there's something better?

+1.

Bring back the old fashioned analogue type where you pulled the whistle off to refill it.

But perhaps instead of relying on a whistle you could get an app for your smartphone.

 

[TonyBuckley]

I used to have one of these (or very similar).

http://www.force4.co.uk/623/Force-4-Stainless-Steel-Heavy-Base-Kettle.html

No idea why they cost so much, but mine was a gift.

The whistle lasted for all the years I had that boat but as VicS says, it was one of those pull off types on the spout. My current **** camping type kettle refused to whistle from day one!

 

[Scarboroughsloop]

I used to have one of these (or very similar).

http://www.force4.co.uk/623/Force-4-Stainless-Steel-Heavy-Base-Kettle.html

No idea why they cost so much, but mine was a gift.

The whistle lasted for all the years I had that boat but as VicS says, it was one of those pull off types on the spout. My current **** camping type kettle refused to whistle from day one!

That's what I have, although the 'whistle' sounds more like a harmonica. Good kettle though.

 

[pampas]

Your profile is nearly empty. if Cardiff is within reach then go to Trago Mills they do a cheap alloy for about £2. mine has lasted for 7 years and is as loud as when new.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I used to have one of these (or very similar).

http://www.force4.co.uk/623/Force-4-Stainless-Steel-Heavy-Base-Kettle.html

No idea why they cost so much, but mine was a gift.

The whistle lasted for all the years I had that boat but as VicS says, it was one of those pull off types on the spout. My current **** camping type kettle refused to whistle from day one!

I love the way they describe it as "great value!'

Its nearly as expensive as an Aga kettle.

http://www.agacookshop.co.uk/kettles/aluminium-kettles/ultimate-kettle.html

I kept the one from when we had an Aga twenty something years ago. Mrs M suggested we bought a new one until she saw the price. I polished up the old one and its still going strong.

 

[pmagowan]

I don't know where we got the kettle from but it looks good, has a flip back whistle and has been working well for about 4 years. I don't think it was sold as a 'boat' kettle but it has the wide bottom for quicker heating. I will check next time I am on the boat what the make is as I would recommend it.

 

[PabloPicasso]

Yes that's what we need

 

[SimonP85]

I picked up one of these when I was in the US a couple of years ago. It's fitted when a Hohner harmonica so you get a two tone whistle and it's been loud and reliable so far.

http://www.chantal.com/classic-teakettle.html

 

[geem]

We have an AGA kettle that spends winters on our solid fuel AGA and summers on the boat. We have had it 10 years and it still whistles nicely. Solid, heavy, quality kettle

 

[TheEcho]

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?377285-In-praise-of-a-kettle

 

[charles_reed]

I'm fed up with the pathetic reliability of modern kettle whistles. It's the one item that I've on board that has proved useless. Expensive fast boilers, to cheap camping hobbies, the whistles have all been pathetic, unreliable, or uselessly short working lives.

Has anyone fared better with recently bought kettles. I'd really like to know when and where. Is it too much to ask, a kettle with a loud whistle, that lasts more then 5 minutes.

Most modern kettles have whispy plastic whistles. Surely there's something better?

My 1964 aluminium camping kettle - used for extensive camping and then on 3 boats (surviving an Origo), finally died in Argeles Port in 2003. After a succession of failed whistling replacements, including a vastly expensive one bought in JLP by my wife, I finally found, in a chandlers in Marseille, a prohibitively expensive, stainless-steel kettle with a remote control, lift up spout-whistle. It was €24, a price which I managed to haggle down to €20. The whistle is adjustable, currently Csharp, and the kettle continues to perform valiantly, having started off in Bflat. Unfortunately it has no maker's name or other provenance (breaking EC regulations) but I would exhort Pablo to not give up hope, but continue searching and, perhaps, raise his price-point.
The kettle, now 6 years old has boiled an estimated 2200 litres of water.

 

[Sans Bateau]

We have one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Le-Creuset-...&sr=8-12&keywords=whistling+kettle+le+creuset

£2 for a kettle, goodness, what do expect?

 

[john_morris_uk]

My 1964 aluminium camping kettle - used for extensive camping and then on 3 boats (surviving an Origo), finally died in Argeles Port in 2003. After a succession of failed whistling replacements, including a vastly expensive one bought in JLP by my wife, I finally found, in a chandlers in Marseille, a prohibitively expensive, stainless-steel kettle with a remote control, lift up spout-whistle. It was €24, a price which I managed to haggle down to €20. The whistle is adjustable, currently Csharp, and the kettle continues to perform valiantly, having started off in Bflat. Unfortunately it has no maker's name or other provenance (breaking EC regulations) but I would exhort Pablo to not give up hope, but continue searching and, perhaps, raise his price-point.
The kettle, now 6 years old has boiled an estimated 2200 litres of water.

There's so much wrong with this post.

For a start B flat is the key for ironing not boiling water.

 

[nigelmercier]

Link to thread: In-praise-of-a-kettle ...

And this is the kettle being praised:

Blue: http://amzn.to/1gMdyZl
Cream http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Red: http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Green: http://amzn.to/1gMdPLP
Steel: http://amzn.to/1mhqfMP

Very pleased with mine.

 

[Vara]

And this is the kettle being praised:

Blue: http://amzn.to/1gMdyZl
Cream http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Red: http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Green: http://amzn.to/1gMdPLP
Steel: http://amzn.to/1mhqfMP

Very pleased with mine.

yep that's the one I eventually bought after 2 duff purchases and much consultation on these forums, still whistling like a good un two years on.

 

[LadyInBed]

And this is the kettle being praised:

Very pleased with mine.

And at a sensible price, not like the 50 quid for the one further back in the thread! and it doesn't even turn itself off

 

[Modulation]

Go-Outdoor have on for a fiver. Needs a little surgery as it's a bad pourer. Whistle's fine tho.

 

[PabloPicasso]

There's so much wrong with this post.

For a start B flat is the key for ironing not boiling water.

And it's quite clearly Db not C#

 

[PabloPicasso]

I bought one of these

And this is the kettle being praised:

Blue: http://amzn.to/1gMdyZl
Cream http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Red: http://amzn.to/1mhq44f
Green: http://amzn.to/1gMdPLP
Steel: http://amzn.to/1mhqfMP

Very pleased with mine.

Yes jolly good for you but my one has an asthmatic whistle that whispers boiling rather than screaming it