Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4597 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Eco
• Model: ECOMAW894

Features

• Manufactured by Product Creation
• Tags: Eco-friendly, Energy Efficient, Best Seller

Manufacturers Description

Save water, save time and save energy with the ECO Kettle. Measuring the required amount of water to be boiled in your kettle has always been a difficult job. It's estimated that, on average, we boil twice the volume of water needed every time. Which means twice as much energy, twice as much time, and with a 3kW kettle this equates to wasting the energy of around 50 light bulbs.

The ECO Kettle has been invented to specifically meet the challenge of reducing the amount of energy wasted by overfilling your kettle. With the ECO Kettle, you can fill the kettle to the brim and simply press the valve button in the lid to release a specific amount of water (1 to 8 cups worth) into the boiling chamber. This easy, simple method of accurately ensuring that you boil only the water that you need. Using the ECO Kettle will save electricity, it will save water, it will save you time and it will save you money. In independent consumer trials, directed by the Energy Saving Trust, the ECO kettle used over 30% less energy than standard kettles.

The ECO kettle has been awarded the prestigious 'Recommended' mark by the Energy Saving Trust. This is first award to be given in the Energy Saving Trust's newly established Kettle category, and endorses the massive 31% average energy savings achieved by the ECO Kettle in independent trials. Based upon average usage figures, it is estimated that ECO Kettles sold over the past 2 years have already reduced CO2 emmissions in the UK by a staggering 500 tonnes!

Customer Reviews

So far, so good
After years of nagging my wife not to boil a whole kettle full of water to make a single cup of coffee, I thought that the Eco-Kettle would be the answer to my problem. And so far, it has been.

It arrived within a couple of days of placing the order through Amazon and the instructions for use are pretty good. Within minutes, the kettle was up and running and I had my first cup of coffee using just the amount of boiling water needed.

The kettle includes an open-valve option which allows you to boil the entire kettle-full of water for those occasions when you need a lot of boiling water. Admittedly, I found the instructions for this function a little confusing at first but it soon became apparent what they meant.

We've not experienced any of the problems that other reviewers here have complained about, particularly the issue concerning the leaky seal, so I assume that the makers have corrected the problem that seemed to affect the earlier models.

All-in-all, we highly recommend this kettle and as well as it being sold at a very reasonable price, it has also saved a few domestic arguments too!

The REAL advantage of the Eco-Kettle...
One thing that no-one's mentioned so far is that it makes a fantastic cup of tea! With normal kettles you'd often be boiling water that's been boiled before, which really affects the taste, especially after two or three times. With the Eco-Kettle you're effectively using fresh water each time. It's really rather brilliant.

Of course, there's nothing particularly revolutionary about the Eco-Kettle, except that it can boil as little as one cup rather than the usual minimum of 0.5L. The separate chambers simply mean you don't have to fill it up every time you want a cup of tea - it's essentially a device for lazy people. As another reviewer mentions, you can measure how much you boil (to an extent) with a normal kettle. There you measure at the tap, here you measure when boiling. However, this is perfect for a student living in a shared house who wants to make a cup of tea in his bedroom, or indeed anyone who doesn't have their kettle near a tap.

As for the manufacturer's "cup size" being only 200ml, what difference does that make? It's just a guideline. It isn't difficult to work out that if you need a little more than 200ml you fill the boiling chamber a little above the 1 cup mark.

Overall, excellent product.

Excellent kettle with truly excellent customer care
Bought an Eco Kettle last December (2006) through Ethical Superstore, looked like a good design idea in principle. Very fast, very quiet - and it looks nice, rather enjoyed seeing it on my work surface. Great idea to be able to fill reservoir with filtered water and then use small amounts as required. Perfectly OK for single-handed lifting when only part full, with a handle that is easy and comfortable to grip. Did need to use some pressure to press the plunger, and both hands to lift kettle when full, being slight of build and a bit arthritic in the hands. But that would be the case for any kettle, so I wouldn't hold that against Eco kettle. So as you can tell, I was very pleased with it...and then in September(2007)it stopped working. Devastated. After checking all the obvious things, contacted Product Design (the manufacturer) who provided truly amazing customer care. Prompt response to emails and phone calls, when I emailed them they called back immediately and after talking me through their fault diagnosis routine over the phone, concluded that the problem was not obviously curable...and I received a replacement kettle by courier the following day! I was very happy with the original kettle. The fact that my first one developed a mystery fault is in my opinion just "one of those things". With such great backup from Product Creation, nobody need think twice - don't be put off the the odd negative review. HT