Cuisinart CPK-17C Programmable Kettle 85.99$

I had this previously and works great, but I hated the non-metric temps.

This thing hasn't been updated in at least 10 years and is still at this price?
I bought this for $79.99 in 2013. Seems like the price should have gone down, even with inflation.
FYI, with normal use the print on the buttons was unreadable after just over a year and it stopped working altogether after 3 years.

I got this as a wedding gift over a decade ago and it still works perfectly. It is used multiple times daily for coffee, tea, and hot water. No issues with print on buttons rubbing off on mine. Well worth it imo.

IIRC it was around $100 back then.

My parents had this one and it died so they had to go back to their old kettle. Not sure if that was just a random deffective unit but idk.

Personally I'd rather just pay a little more and get one of those hot water dispensers from Japan, they're invaluable if you drink a lot of hot drinks. You can use them for instant noodles and oatmeal too.

clottedcream wrote: ↑ I had this previously and works great, but I hated the non-metric temps.

is there any sticker on box to change button covers?
they should have...

+1 Thanks OP - Great catch was about to buy one tomorrow
Last week when I looked the cheapest price was The Bay @ $109.99, KitchenStuff Plus had it for $129.
Appreciate the deal and don't have to fight the crowds to go get it.

if you only need 1L...
It was a pop deal when it was $40 with free shipping, so $42 with shipping seems pretty good.
Goose neck for precision pours(important for fussy coffee people) and the temp read-out can be switched to C or F(and lets you dial in specific temps.... Not that you'd really need more than the 4 options the cuisinart offers. Realistically 90% of the people will just need 190F for green tea, and 212 for everything else)

I've had this kettle for almost ten years now and it still works great. But the beep could be much louder, and the button labels did start to show wear within a few months and were completely blank in about a year. I recommend taking a photo of the buttons when it's new and keeping it somewhere handy for reference, for those times you want to use a temp. you don't use every day and aren't quite sure which button it was.
Also if you use it, let it cool but not for long and then use it again, there's a good probability that condensation will block the top of the level indicator tube so it will show empty at first and then jump, and then you have to dump some out to get the level to where you wanted it. I fixed that on mine by drilling a small hole at the top of the indicator tube (on the outside of the kettle).
And getting nit-picky: there's a big plastic frame at the spout that holds a useless screen, and it blocks the last bit of water from pouring out. So to completely empty it you need to pour it all out, then tip it back down and back up, or side to side, to get the last bit of water around the frame. I fixed that on mine be removing the screen and its frame.
And I really wish the indicator tube was Pyrex rather than plastic; the plastic tube kinda defeats the purpose of the kettle being stainless rather than plastic.
Other than that, great kettle.

hainkurt wrote: ↑ is there any sticker on box to change button covers?
they should have...

Agreed! Not in my box there wasn't.