Honey..I bought you a Porsche!!! (Siemens TW91100 Kettle)

Member Name: Marland

Product:	Siemens TW91100 Kettle
Date:	03/06/03 (345 review reads)
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Advantages: Reliable and durable, Good looking, easy to de-scale, easy to use thoughtful design

Disadvantages: Hard to clean brushed aluminium, expensive, confusing safty lock lid

Reason for purchase

I know what you’re thinking. Why would anybody in their right mind pay such a ludicrous sum for a kettle? No, I was not simply paying over the odds for a ‘designed by Porsche’ kitchen appliance. The fact of the matter is that for some reason the thermostat keeps going funny after about six months of using a kettle. At a rate of 2 a year, I’d tried practically every other brand. You don’t know how annoying it is to pour out your cup of coffee thinking it is hot, when it is in fact only luke warm, because the thermostat keeps getting confused. I’m happy to say, that this thermostat has been working perfectly for over two years now.

Looking good

That’s not to say that the Porsche design isn’t a bonus. It has a cylindrical brushed aluminium metal exterior with blue plastic spout, handle and lid trim. There’s nothing else to say about the looks of this machine, than – simple and timeless elegance. Phillips has come out with a Siemens look-a-like kettle called the ‘Philips Flat Element Kettle’, nice try, but perhaps if they tried getting a little assistance from Ducatti they would pull it off better!

What I like about it

Apart from the things I’ve already mentioned – the me proof thermostat and the cool design. However, as my Mum used to say ‘it won’t boil by you standing there looking at it’ and fortunately there’s more to this kettle than simple good looks and a reliable thermostat. are a lot of little things I like about this kettle. The concealed element makes de-scaling easier. I also like the 360 degree connector base, while struggling one handed because the grand child is in the crock of one arm this small design feature really proves it’s worth.

Draw backs

Although the safety locking lid could be useful if you have children, it can also be confusing if you have grandpare
nts. The brushed aluminium steel is more difficult to keep looking nice than other finishes might be. At the end of the day it’s a kettle, it boils water, it doesn’t keep the kids amused, do the washing up, tell you jokes when you’re depressed. It boils water when you fill it up and turn it on and it turns itself off when the water is boiled. The price has come down considerably since we bought ours (just over a hundred pounds and that was on offer), but there’s no getting away from the fact that it’s still expensive for what it does.


Conclusion

If this kettle was a film star it would be Sean Connery or Katherine Hepburn. More than good looks, lasting class that stands out from the crowd and is damn good at what it does. It’s expensive yes, but the look on my partners face when my Dad told him he’d bought him ‘a Porsche’ was unforgettable, the look when he saw that the Porsche was in fact a kettle was priceless.

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