Breville VKJ271 Colour Select
Fun kettle, brightens up the kitchen - Breville VKJ271 Colour Select Kettle

Product Type: Breville kettles

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Fun kettle, brightens up the kitchen
Breville VKJ271 Colour Select

cheryl326

Member Name: cheryl326

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Breville VKJ271 Colour Select

Date: 06/05/12

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Advantages: Colourful, large capacity, quick boil

Disadvantages: none

When our old kettle broke we decided that with our new one we wanted something a bit different, my fiancee wanted something colourful and unique which is what this kettle is. At £55 from most stores and online i feel that this is expensive for a kettle, however it was gratefully received as an engagement present otherwise i don't think i would have been too sure on spending so much money just on a kettle!
Having said that it is a lovely kettle, has a polished silver effect with a large display window so you can see exactly how much is in the kettle, this is marked in 2 cup increments, i tend not to take too much notice of this as we have pretty large cups and need it fill it up to nearly the 4 cup mark to get 2 cups out of it. However the kettle does have a large capacity and is more than ample for what we need, the 2 of us and a young baby who needs bottles making up, this kettle can serve us all from just one kettle full.

It is sat on a base so the kettle can swivel either way for right or left handed people, has a large opening at the top which opens by pressing a small black button on top of the handle to flip lid up. There is a large pouring spout with a limescale filter just inside of it. The kettle when full is fairly quick to boil, around 3-4 minutes and of course even quicker when only part full which is very good.

Now for the fun part, the lights! When the kettle is boiling it starts off blue in colour for cold and as it gets hotter and boils this turns to red. Once it has boiled and goes back on the base it will make a small connection noise and the kettle will then change colours for 20minutes, going through cycles of all different colours, i think it's about 7-9 different colours, this looks much better when sat on the worktop in the dark and the colours glow from this it really stands out and looks vibrant.

Overall a great kettle although a bit on the pricey side it serves us well and i hope it continues to do so for a very long time.

Summary: Slightly expensive but different kettle

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