We keep ours on the counter, as we use it multiple times a day. I can see that it would be a pain if you had to take it out each time, though.

I prefer the stove top ones, but because of the glass top, you need one that sits perfectly flat on it. My stove top one will leave a slight gap so it's never been used on it. We put it in our motorhome to use when we go camping. I don't get a lot of the wireless stuff either. You still have to plug it in the charge. :) My water kettle has a corded base, but the kettle itself is cordless.

Mine is like Debbies and I love it.. it was a Christmas gift from my daughter. Mine is a Hamilton Beach..

Just me but I do leave those things I use frequently on my counter but if it bothers you enough to hide it but I would simply purchase a kettle to use on the stove top. Then toss the kettle into the oven where it could not be seen. I have been thinking of purchasing one to return to doing pour over coffee when my current maker dies. Having pulled the other type out of the wall several times not having that cord sounds good to me.

I love my electric kettle - it sits on the counter next to the coffee maker and gets used several times a day. Doesn't take up that much space.

Mine is a stove top and it gets used several times a day. However, I buy the whistling kind and have learned, after burning through the bottom of two kettles, not to buy the kind where you can prop the opening open to stop the whistling.

I love the cordless and it's the only appliance that sits on my counter (oh, I guess the kitchenaid mixer does, too). I use it to heat water for my pour over coffee and love that it turns itself off. I had a stovetop kettle, but even though it whistled, I worried that someday I'd walk away and forget it. I think it heats much faster than a stovetop kettle, unless you have induction or perhaps gas. Definitely faster than my glass top. I also got tired of having to clean the stovetop kettle from cooking splatters.

Ditto to olychick's comments and for all the same reasons.

I have a gas range - my electric kettle, if slower, isn't much slower to boil a small kettle of water. I have the kind made for pour-over drip coffee, it has a narrow goose-neck pouring spout. Range top models of a similar goose-neck design are available but the electric one doesn't need to be monitored. I hold the switch down repeatedly to return it to a boil while making coffee to keep the water as hot as possible. It works well.

I've stayed at hotels that had them (The last one was in Fiji), and I liked them very much. Of course I did not move them, but I did also like that they turn off by themselves. I have a kettle that has a cord, but it is all one piece and does not turn off by itself, but is easy to put away. Typically, I boil water in the microwave, and I put my teapot in there with two cups of water plus one teabag and microwave it for three minutes. Then I remove the teabag and add one cup of water.

I have always had stove top models. Then Charlotte moved in. She had a corded kettle. That darn thing kept tripping my circuit, almost every day... and eventually I has to get a new outlet.

She got a cordless model we put on a different outlet, and that worked so much better... but when she moved in, I pulled my stove top model back out, and I am happy. :)

Moni

I don't like turning the stove element on to boil water, so I like an electric kettle. It's fast and turns off. My regular corded one turned off as well when it boiled.

I just feel that I have to lift the kettle up to pour, so it's just as easy to unplug it, and pour. Same idea, just as one unit instead of having a base and kettle separate. I still don't see the advantage. When I see one I want on sale, I'll get it and sell this one, it's only a couple of months old.

I still have the flat bottom kettle that came with the Corning cooktop I bought around 1980. I sits on my current 5-burner glass cooktop. We use it for afternoon tea, and I use it to add a bit of water to something I'm cooking on the cooktop.

This reminds me: What am I missing about the value of plumbing the wall behind a stove in a home kitchen? Even if you need a lot of water -- say, for pasta -- you still have to lift that pot to pour it out. Maybe we don't cook pasta often enough!

The one I have sits on a base. The cord is attached to the base, the kettle lifts off to pour.

This isn't the one I have but it's like this

Chisue, you've expressed my exact thought with those pot-fillers. You fill a cold pot with water safely, then have to carry a full pot of scalding water to the sink to pour it out. I don't get it.

I never pour scalding pasta water from my pasta cooking pot - I either use an insert

I still do not want a faucet in the back of my stove, however.

If not pasta, it can be anything hot. Filling a large stock pot for chicken stock, etc. Either way, the easy part is filling a pot with cold water The hard/dangerous part is moving hot pot with boiling liquids.

That's up there with theory is better than function/actuality. Case in point, those walk-in bathtubs. You sit on a presumably cold bench naked, waiting for the water to fill up to take a bath. Then sit, naked and shivering while the water drains so that you can get out. :-)

I adore my electric kettle. Wish I could have justified getting a cordless one when they were still being imported to the US. Mine is a Russel Hobbs and is at least 30 yrs old - maybe older.

I like it as it has an auto turn-off if I get distracted and forget. I will never forget when living in LA, putting on the stove kettle to boil water for tea, getting distracted, leaving the house and driving 5 miles to our church's annual meeting. I was sitting there and suddenly realized I had left that kettle on the stove!!!! Utter terror! I left the meeting, exceeded speed limits and got home. No fire, just a badly damaged copper tea kettle (tin lining totally gone). I was VERY lucky. I think I must have bought mine then. That was in 1982-83.

It lives on my counter, close enough to the sink/faucet that the cord can reach.

I did a search Anglo and some RH products are sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond. The models they have appear to be cordless and sit on a base as most others do

To my knowledge, all electric kettles have an auto-off function. I know my two Japanese ones do. They turn themselves off when the water is boiling.

I have to agree with you about the walk-in bathtubs. We will be looking at houses in the Palm Springs area next week-end, and I will keep that in mind. In Los Angeles, I take baths more than showers, but in Palm Springs I prefer showers, and in that climate, you dry off practically without a towel, due to the extremely low humidity. This makes it difficult for shaving, if I want my face to stay wet to shave after a shower, but the mirrors do not fog up. I've noticed that a lot of houses in PS do not have gas options for cooking, and so I may have to settle with some kind of electric range, but I do not plan on spending that much time there anyway. I do think I will want an electric kettle there that is removable from its base. We plan to use the new house as income property and rent it as AirB&B. I think renters will be okay with that type of kettle.

I have a Dualit, cordless and I LOVE it -- it has an automatic off feature as well. It sits on the counter because I use it several times a day. However, if it was stored in a cupboard and taken out when needed, I can see what a pain a two piece kettle might be.

You know, older houses are not set up for as much electric usage as corded or cordless kettle uses.

As many have said here, it's more the norm to leave a kettle sitting on the counter. I don't know anyone who puts theirs away.

The advantage of cordless is you can easily take it somewhere else (eg, defrosting the freezer) without dragging a dangling cord behind you.

Am I the only person on the KT who just fills a coffee cup with water and puts it in the microwave to heat the water for my tea bag???

DH used a Keurig for his coffee.

We like our cordless electric kettle. It's on our counter all the time and DH uses it several times a day. I like the fact that I can leave the base there carry around the kettle itself and use it for other things. We also have our toaster and our KitchenAid food processor on the counter We don't have that much room so they have to stay on the counter.

You really should use water that has come to a rolling boil for tea.

Kathy, of course each person has they're preference, and my preference is using a teapot to make tea. I despise a tea bag in a mug.

I still don't get the advantage of a cordless over a corded kettle. It's easy to pick up the cord and kettle in one hand......the cords are short; and carry it around or put it away, as I do. :-)

Kathy -- you may be -- LOL!

Kathy, tea tastes 100000x better when you boil that water.

Cordless kettles are easy to use, just leave it on the countertop. Not sure why you'd want to put it in the cupboard every day.

But old gardener -- people don't have much on their countertops -- a KA mixer in a coordinating color, a plant and maybe something else. Everything else is stowed away! LOL!

KathyG, if you read my post further up, you will see that I also microwave with a teabag in water, but I do it in a small teapot instead of a mug.

I have loose tea that I use from time to time, but I do appreciate the convenience of teabags, and I have found some that I really like.

I don't even HAVE a kettle, of any kind. I can't imagine what I would use one for. My mom had one when I was a kid, she used it to make her coffee, those instant coffee granules (bleh).

No thank you!

I'm wary of any bulky kitchen item that has only one use or duplicates something that already does the job just fine: The electric kettle.

OTOH, we only boil water once a day for a pot of tea. An electric kettle is probably a necessity in those English dramas where 'a cuppa' is needed to restore someone every 15 minutes. An AGA may take too long to boil water. I'd probably just offer a stiff shot -- glasses of a different amber liquid being quaffed as often as tea in those cozy mysteries.

I think the biggest advantage for me with a cordless is filling it. So much easier to not have to wrangle a cord, keep it out of the sink, and then plug back in with my potentially wet hands.

TexasGem one advantage to having a kettle of any type is when you make something that tells you to add hot water to whatever you are making. You could heat the water in the microwave but there is more of a risk of burning yourself.

I fill my kettle at the sink and set it on the cooktop to boil. I don't need a special vessel to boil water -- with or without an electric cord attached. What am I missing that's so wonderful about this 'one trick pony'?

The only "appliances" left on our counter are a coffee grinder, the electric kettle, and the toaster. The first two are used at least twice a day.

This one trick pony can be safely used unattended and turns itself off.

Yes, the safety aspect is great, plus if you want different temperature water, a lot of the kettles now have temperature settings. For instance, for black tea you want boiling water, but for green tea a lower temperature is better.

Chisue, I was addressing the cordless vs corded kettle and you're comparing electric to non-electric. The cordless electric is similar in ease to the stove top you use, but having a kettle I can walk away from and know it's going to turn off if I forget it, is worth a lot to me. Especially before I've had my morning coffee. A few times when I had a stove-top, I've set the kettle on the stove and gone out to fill the bird feeders, or taken the garbage out or similar and been distracted by the ripe raspberries, or the weeds sneering at me and forgot about the kettle. Never burned the house down, but as I get older, I worry more about that and the security of an appliance turning itself off is worth it to me.

When we redid our kitchen, we put in the instant hot dispenser. LOVE it.

Some years ago we bought a house that had an instant hot water dispenser on the kitchen sink. After a few years, it started to leak. We replaced it. The new one started to leak a few years later. We replaced it with a soap dispenser.

Even on the hottest setting, the ones we had didn't produce water that was hot enough for making pour-over drip coffee and so we didn't use them much anyway.

Old fashioned tea kettle that whistles (rather loudly, I must say) when the water hits boiling. Turns out to be made of enamel-coated iron, so I didn't need to replace it when I went induction in this new home.

I love my cordless electric kettle but it stays on my counter all the time

We use the sunbeam hot shot and have for years...stays on the counter...add water to the top, it heats it, press the button and out it comes into the mug.