Why are kettles so rubbish?

I don’t want a lukewarm green tea because it allegedly brews better

Who reckons that?

Green tea stops infusing as soon as the temperature drops, so it cannot “stew”. In China the water they put on green tea is  thermonuclear. you can’t think about drinking it for about 1/2 an hour.

Anything which isn’t plastic. I have a stainless steel Russell Hobbs, it’s the first kettle I’ve owned which wasn’t crap.

@smiffy here’s the beepy Sage smart kettle

Had a fancy Bosch one for about 15 years before it wouldn’t stay on, replaced with a Russel Hobbs (would usually avoid but was on offer and wanted something quickly), been wanting to replace it with a Ninja one but it’s lasted 10+ years now so there’s no need.

To help offset the Russell Hobbs hate, my kettle has been boiling water without leaking, dripping or exploding since 2009. It was one of their posh stainless steel ones and cost me £24.79 from Argos.

So I’d get one of those 2009 kettles, they were good back then.

Our Asda one is great, even for pourover coffee the spout seems to work well.

Is OP’s kettle thick with limescale? Our work one is, it gives me a kidney stone just looking at it!

Just gone into my amazon history and can see that i’ve bought 6 kettles since 2012. Hopefully this Bosch skyline will last more than 2 years.