Swan Rapid Boil Kettle

i know kettles aren?t the most interesting of items, but most of us use one everyday ~ probably more than once too! when our old kettle was looking a bit grubby, and started to boil only when it felt that way inclined, we decided it was time to replace it (it was about six years old after all). our kettle was a white, cordless swan kettle and it had served us well ~ it had now earned its place in the great kettle graveyard and was ready to pass the torch on to a new model?.but now we faced the decision about what the worthy successor would be! it seems that kettles come in all shapes, sizes and prices. we just wanted a kettle but the array on offer is ...

Ah yes, the time had come. My little banana yellow bouncing, boiling friend in the corner of the kitchen was signalling its swansong. In plain terms my kettle was about to die. I?ve had it maybe, mmmm, two or three years I think. It was a Hinari Lifestyle (I wrote about it at the time!) kettle in a nice yellow colour for a price I could afford but, being fairly cheap and cheerful, it had its problems. It had always bounced about precariously when boiling, threateningly to somersault off the kitchen worktop, and in its final few months I could only get it to work by strategically levering it up with a teaspoon so that the connections on kettle and base would ...