Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle Review
Buy the Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle. This popular stuff is currently available. For this great price, the Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle comes highly respected and is always a popular choice for most people. With so many on offer right now, it is great to have a name you can believe. The product is certainly that and will be a excellent purchase. The manufacturer have included some nice touches and this results in good value. You can believe this review, i hope you can try to buy this product if you want know this product. Let me set some background on myself first. I am a long time tea drinker and was raised in a country where you drank tea all the time. I consume approximately 4 to 6 cups per day. So you could say I know and enjoy my tea :)
With that said nothing annoys and frustrates me more than the taste of a tea being polluted or ruined by the introduction of foreign flavors. I have owned a number of plastic kettles most of which I am sure based on their age contained BPA and even if they didn't often time gave a strange odor or flavor to the tea. I have also had some great stainless pots but recently (past couple of years) had to revert back to the plastic again.
I decided at Christmas 2010 that I wanted to finally get away from these and was originally looking for an all in one solution. You can imagine my delight when I saw the Breville One Touch Tea Maker and jumped at the chance of this. Long story short I got through 3 of them, the first 1 didn't work, the second and third however had a strange odor that seemed to come from the brewing basket lid. I was really frustrated that this didn't work out, especially with so may other great reviews of the product and the cost.
So, gave up with the all in one and went back on the search for a BPA free and ideally plastic free unit. I looked at the Hamilton Beach stainless and about every other kettle Amazon and others had including the Pino (which is the one I was going to go for). The problem was the BPA identification was either non existent or a guess even by the manufacturer !!! This blew my mind.
I found two Toastess models (1 being this one and the other being DLJK-459) and started the research here. I went for this one as the other Toastess (DLJK-459) had a plastic water window which I wanted to stay away from. I learned that the carafe on the TGK496 (this unit) was glass (in fact the same duran glass as used in the Breville carafe) had a stainless steel heating plate and absolutely no plastic touching the water when boiling. To confirm, the handle attaches on the outside of the carafe so no plastic touching there, the water marks are on the handle (on the outside) so again no BPA leaching viewing windows/water guages as used in other products. The only two pieces of plastic that exist in any proximity of the water are the lid (I know why can't they just get rid of this and replace with Stainless steel and cool touch top etc !!) and the water filter by the spout (this can be removed if you wish). I took this one step further and looked into the lid components (just in case there were concerns about condensed water dripping back) and can report that the lid is made of Plastic #5 (PP - polypropylene) which according to many health related websites poses no risks (who knows what time will show here).
So I finally found BPA free and as close to plastic free as I could and I have to say I love this kettle. Simple but great unit with a 1.7 capacity which is awesome when you have multiple tea drinkers in the house and want to fill a brown betty pot. Glass gets warm so watch out for that and power switch seems a little flimsy but those are the only small gripes.
If there was one thing I would want from this kettle and while I'm at it a please to all kettle manufacturers is to remove the plastic completely whether its touching water directly (crazy in this day and age) or from a condensing perspective, get it out of there !
Hope the information here was useful, please let me know with any questions and do yourself a favor, pickup this kettle. Its one of the few kettles that is BPA free and the closest right now to plastic free.
Go get yourself a cuppa and enjoy the purchase. Amazon as always was awesome !!!
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Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle Overview
TGK486 Features: -Cordless electric glass kettle. -Made of high quality German Schott Duran glass. -All the benefits of glass: elegant, clean and transparent. -Advanced heating technology with concealed element permits fast and easy cleaning. -Auto boil and off switch shuts kettle off when water starts boiling. -Quickly starts reboiling at the touch of a switch. -Kettle shuts off if plugged in dry. -Kettle shuts off when lifted off the round power base. -Lid snaps tight into place for safe use. -On / off indicator light. -Aquascreen water filter. -Handy cord wrap eliminates counter clutter. -Boils as little as 2 cups (500 ml) of water. -Faster than a microwave, safer than a stove top. -Dimensions: 8.8" H x 9.5" W x 12.1" D.
Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle Feature
- All the benefits of glass: elegant, clean and transparent
- Advanced heating technology with concealed element permits fast and easy cleaning
- Auto ?boil and off? switch shuts kettle off when water starts boiling; Quickly starts reboiling at the touch of a switch
- Kettle shuts off if plugged in dry; Kettle shuts off when lifted off the roundpower base
- Lid snaps tight into place for safe use; On/off Indicator light
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Toastess Tgk486 Cordless Glass Kettle Detail
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.6 x 12 inches ; 3.4 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
- Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
- ASIN: B003Y1KPFW
- Item model number: TGK486
