Breville KT5 Chrome Kettle

I bought the Breville Classique (KT6) from COMET on the 30 August 2001 for what I considered was a fair price (£36) considering its looks and features. The quite fetching chromed stainless steel body looked a treat in our kitchen (which has stainless appliances) and as we live in a hard water area the scale filter is a noce little touch - shame it is so flimsy as it broke after about 6 months. It has a quickboil (3KW) element and does what you expect in that department. If you do buy I wish you luck - mine died (element failure) before the 2 year point and the kettle only carries a 1 year guarantee. COMET did not want to know and BREVILLE were not ...

I was bought the KT5 as a wedding present in July 2000. I loved the way it looked and was really happy with it - for a few months. Sometimes the switch didn't seem to work and it took a few times to get it going but I just thought it was a skill I'd develop. Then one day the kettle wouldn't switch on at all. We took it back to the shop where it came from and the customer services man said he'd had loads of these kettles returned - all for switch problems, either they wouldn't switch on, or worse, some people had found that they wouldn't switch OFF! We really liked the kettle, though, so we swapped it for new KT5. Just in case it was our hard water ...

Ok, not a lot you can write about a kettle, but here goes! We bought this about 18 months ago as part of a special offer at Currys whereby you got a chrome kettle and toaster (model TT6) for £40. This seemed a really good deal as it was a lower price than the 'cheaper' makes and we had a Breville sandwich toaster that worked great. The kettle is in the traditional style, rather than the newer jug style, but it has covered elements which means that you don't need to boil loads of water for just one mug of tea. This was the main feature we were after as usually it's just the one cup of water at a time that we need. Its also cordless ...