This kettle has been an addition of my kitchen for less than a year now. As we live in an area of hard water it was very important to us that we had a kettle with a built in filter. It holds Brita water filters which are an excellent reliable brand of water filter. Even though filters can be expensive at 15euro each in some shopping centres, they do last three months so it only works out at 5 euro a month for clean water and I wouldn't mind at that price! It takes about 45 seconds to boil enough for one cup of coffee and the water tastes good too. It looks good in chrome and it has frosted plastic around the front which lights up blue when boiling. This is ...  Read the complete review