Breville VKJ142 Hot Cup
★★★★☆ Excellent with one issue - Please read on.
Firstly let me explain, I have used a few of these 'one cup' designs in the past and the last one had me still boiling kettles on the hob as the water always came out slightly luke warm and tepid. This is MUCH better and is a properly boiling cup of tea. The kettle looks great, has a relativly small footprint and is really easy to use - You just take it out of the box and go!
Why only 4 stars? To be honest this is the only down side to my mind and why I mentioned an issue in the title. It only boils a set amount of water (one reviewes says 250ml - I have not measured it but it sounds about right). There is an overflow tray provided but it is still annoying if a cup you are filling overflows and you have to 'edge' the overfull cup towards the sink to get rid of enough boiling water so you can add milk etc. This does not ruin it in my mind and to be honest I will take boiling water to a set amount over luke warm water any day and you soon get used to the sort of mug size that works. However I notice that they now do one that does a variable flow and to be honest if it works as well as this in terms of boiling the water I wish that I had bought that.
Why only 4 stars? To be honest this is the only down side to my mind and why I mentioned an issue in the title. It only boils a set amount of water (one reviewes says 250ml - I have not measured it but it sounds about right). There is an overflow tray provided but it is still annoying if a cup you are filling overflows and you have to 'edge' the overfull cup towards the sink to get rid of enough boiling water so you can add milk etc. This does not ruin it in my mind and to be honest I will take boiling water to a set amount over luke warm water any day and you soon get used to the sort of mug size that works. However I notice that they now do one that does a variable flow and to be honest if it works as well as this in terms of boiling the water I wish that I had bought that.
★☆☆☆☆ Breville Hot Cup Kettle
Bought this product September 2009 and the element has gone. Not impressed at all considering how much it was.
★★★★☆ Much better than a quickcup
A great way to boil water when you only want one cuppa. Get a big mug (as the water amount dispensed can't be adjusted) and enjoy. Quieter than the quickcup(Tefal's version) and much better/more reliable. I'd give it 5 stars if it held more water.
★★★★☆ Brilliant almost
Well this looks great in my kitchen too and the only downside is it only fills a cup and not a mug although it does fill about three quarters full . TOTALLY brilliant because it takes seconds to make one cup and if you have a really big mug you can just do it twice .
★★★★★ Breville VKJ142 Hot Cup
Does the job it is designed for,much quicker and more convienent than a kettle.I would say its good value for money.Just one slight niggle,the amount when set does vary slightly on occasions but the spill/overflow tray is a piece of cake to empty.All in all i think a good pice of kit.....hopefully it will prove reliable for a few years as i have only been using it for a for a month or so.
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