No more furry kettle, unless you're a Londoner! (Brita Acclario)

Member Name: danielfinn

Product:	Brita Acclario
Date:	22/07/04 (112 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice, clean drinking water (hot and cold), Fast boiling, Cordless, so can move it easily

Disadvantages: Doesn't work well in London

I must say, having got this kettle bought for me whiel at University in Birmingham, I have noticed the fairly significant difference in the water quality of my tea, and also the lack of limescale in my kettle!

The kettle (mine came in black) is a cordless removable kettle whose heating element takes up the entire base of the kettle. This means swift boiling of the kettle for that vital cuppa in the morning. It's got this swivelling openable top thing that allows you to easily pour in the unfiltered water into the filter at the top, and on the swivelling thing is a kind of timer thing that lets you know when you should replace the filter on your kettle. It also has, in effect, two switches. One that turns on the kettle, and another that starts/stops the filter. The on switch can't be turned on without the filter being turned off, preventing your nice boiling water getting cold on the way to the cup.

The filter is also pretty speedy, as are all brita filters I guess. Minutes after adding the water, it's filtered. Does wonders for softening the water, producing either nice drinking water (i used to pour it off and stick it in the fridge) or nice, filtered hot water.

So yea, this kettle works fine out of London. But down here, where the water is chock full of the stuff that makes limescale, it doesn't quite perform too well. It works better than most kettles, in that I've only needed to descale it once in a month, whereas I normally have to do it once a week. This may be attributed to the filter getting old, so if you are a London user of the kettle, make sure to replace the filter as soon as the limescale starts showing. Or use filtered water in your kettle to produce double filtered water, perhaps.

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