Bonavita 1L Digital Variable Temperature Gooseneck Electric Kettle for Coffee Brew and Tea Precise Pour Control, 6 Preset Temps, Café or Home Use, 1200 Watt, LED Panel, Stainless Steel

When we got an AeroPress in July 2018, we realized we needed a convenient way to heat the water to a specific temperature, since you should not be using boiling water for your AeroPress. I reviewed a number of adjustable temp kettles before deciding on this one. Specifically, I was looking for one with an easy to set temp that also remembered the previous setpoint. This one fit the bill, and we bought it a week after we bought the AeroPress. For over a year and a half, this has been cranking out hot water for us. Typically it is used twice each morning for coffee for my wife and I, who usually get up and moving at different times, and in the winter I use it considerably for making tea throughout the day. Turns out, maintaining the previous setpoint wasn't all that useful after all (though it still is nice), since my wife and I have settled on different temps for making coffee in the Aeropress. What is useful is the quick temps. With one button, it cycles through preset temps of 140, 176, 185, 190, 205, and 208 °F (or equivalent °C if in °C mode), and we've ended up using this almost exclusively. I brew coffee with the 176 °F setting, my wife uses 185 °F. Since you have to add water after you use the AeroPress (or milk/etc), I usually brew the coffee, then set the pot back on the base and tap the preset temp button several times to the 208 °F to top off my mug with really hot water, as I like hot drinks. So we typically are pressing this button numerous times per day, and they've obviously used quality buttons since it shows no signs of wearing out. The temp can be adjusted in 1 °F increments from the preset using the + and - buttons (and again, it always turns back on to the last used temp, whether that is a pre-set or custom temp). Adjustable range is 140 °F to 212 °F. Temp accuracy: If I put my meat thermometer right at the temp sensor, the thermometer reads ~2 °F higher than the kettle. Not a big deal, and explains why a roiling boil happens at a displayed 210 °F and it never reaches 212 °F. Hold button: By default, the pot shuts off when it reaches the set temp. Pressing "hold" will have the pot maintain the set temp for an hour before turning off. You can press hold as soon as you turn the pot on and it will climb to your set temp and hold. Great for turning the pot on and taking a shower, and it will be at just the right temp when you get back to it. Cleaning: They say to use only a "special" cleaner that they sell...go figure. Nah, I put half a pot of vinegar, half a pot of water, turn to the 208 °F preset and "hold" for an hour. When I get back to it all the calcium buildup is gone. Rinse with water and refill for your next use. Rust: I've seen people mention rust. One time I thought I saw signs of rust, but cleaning with vinegar removed it and I haven't seen it since. Maybe it was iron in the water or maybe something was growing. Not sure. Calcium: As with all pots used to boil hard water, calcium will build up on the bottom. This starts flaking off after some time, and with the spout going to the bottom of the pot any calcium flakes that break off will come right out of the spout immediately on pouring. This could be an issue depending on your point of view. If you don't like this, get a pot with a top-pour spout and this won't happen. Cleaning more often or using distilled water are two ways you can fix this. The other way is to just not drink your coffee/tea to the very bottom of your cup, i.e. don't tilt your cup "up" past horizontal and leave just a tad in the bottom and you won't accidentally "drink" these calcium bits. Other: The pot can swivel 360° on the base, and since it has a temp sensor in the pot the power and temp signals are transmitted through the use of a pin and 4 concentric rings of metal on bottom the pot that contact 5 spring loaded pins in the base (the power pins are recesses and cannot be touched on accident, plus the base will not supply power if the pot is missing). I have noticed (only occasionally) that something, I assume minor corrosion, will occasionally throw off the temp reading or recognizing that a pot is attached. Usually this seems to happen if you put the pot at a different angle then normal. If this happens, the fix is easy. With the pot fully lowered on the base, just swing it back and forth a few times until the temp display stops changing when the pot is rotated. Again, I've only noticed this once or twice. Could have just been a piece of dust or something got on a contact. Summary: Great pot, accurate temps, handy pre-sets, holds last temp in memory, reliable and long lasting. Will definitely order again if we need a replacement or if we want a dedicated one for our RV rather than taking this one with us.

Getting into specialty coffee and roasting, I saved up and bought this kettle back in 2016 when I was a kid, with my one reservation being that I'd read two reports about accidentally bending the gooseneck and causing the unit to leak. I have kept that in mind over the years, but I can say it has lived up to being used multiple times a day with 0 issue. I always use distilled water, so I still haven't needed to clean it. If you are brewing tea in it, I'm unsure how easy it would be to clean out spout. I don't have concerns about it bending, as the spout feels far more sturdy than I thought. The spout is nice, thick metal, and it being in a tube really helps it maintain it's shape. I've accidentally pushed the spout into the wall or other kitchen appliances, sometimes while water was in it, and it has never showed any deformation. The unit heats up pretty fast, if I fill it with a liter hot water out of my dispenser (~170F) it'll only take a minute or two to get up to the 205 I brew at, and even from room temp it takes less than 4 or 5 minutes. I find if I can remember to turn it on first, the water is at a good temperature by the time I've ground my coffee and wet my chemex filter. I can't stress just how nice a gooseneck is when it comes to pourover. You can pour water out of the spout wherever you want accurately with ease, to the point where I'm constantly pouring out water weighed down to gram, as it is easy to just pour out only a milliliter even. My unit still looks and functions just as well as when I bought it, and the buttons on the screen (the screen is plastic and feels a little cheap) have held up perfectly, which was another concern of mine. If I do manage to break it, I will definitely replace it, and I think mine will honestly last another decade and stay perfectly functional.

This kettle is perfect for heating water for tea or coffee. The temperature can be set and you will get the perfect heated water for what you need. It pours very well.

Super comfortable handle, with knuckle protection. You won't get burned knuckles or fingers. The preset temperatures and nice, but I especially like the fact that I can set a temp that I want. Example, 212 degrees for boiling water isn't pre set, but I set it, it will stay at that setting until I change it or choose one of the preset settings. Plus the display shows you the temp of the water as it is heating, and after, when you use some of the water and put the kettle back on its base, the display shows the current temp of the water. It also has a hold feature, will keep your hot water at your requested temp for a specified time if you wish. This electric kettle is super great!

I really like the volume, the selection of temperature and the fact that when you put the kettle back it stays on the temperature selected. Very useful to make pour over coffee. What I really dislike is the volume marking on the inside. They are right behind the handle, a very inconvenient location. Clearly the designer did not thought about it from a user perspective or there are machinery limitation (i seriously doubt that). Not a deal breaker for me but designer, engineer you loose my respect.

2018 EDIT: Still five stars five years later, and I’m about to buy my third 1L bonavita kettle. I spent the week reading reviews figured I would try something different, but Amazon says I bought this pot five years ago, and it still working like new (and I use it every day). I don’t want to risk buying another brand where I cannot control the temperature the way I want. This kettle remembers your last setting when you push one button. You can set the temperature to anything you want it remembers it. There is a button that cycles through preset temperatures, but then the arrow keys allow you to zoom in on exactly the temperature you want. This is probably not very important for coffee or basic black tea, but if you are really a tea drinker temperatures vary dramatically (people brew Japanese green tea for example Starting at around 120°F). Although my favorite senchas brew from 160 to 170 F. When you push the button to heat the water, it remembers the last setting and it heats up to that setting and holds it the temperature to within about 1°. I believe there is a timeout feature but it has never intruded on my tea drinking. For your second and third brews you have to remember to hit one button when you put the pot back on the base (so it will hold the temperature). The gooseneck spout is the best there is for pouring into those little teapots, or for pour over coffee as well. But if you are very impatient this might be a disadvantage if filling a large cup is your only use for this pot. After reading complaints on Amazon of the temperature being off, I checked mine with a cooking thermometer at 170°F, it was spot on. This is the one that has been abuse for five years. My previous review below sucks (reading it five years later). I believe I was comparing the Bonavita kettle to the basic on off kettles. Shortly after I started using it there is no confusion whatsoever with what button to push. I mean come on there are only four buttons. For one person definitely choose the 1 L size. I keep mine full of water, or else if you don’t use it every day the water could become musty. The larger size for one person risks boiling the oxygen out of the water (which is not optimal for making tea or coffee). With the smaller size more freshwater is cycled through that hasn’t been boiled to death. ~2013 EDIT: Its really hard to find a water pot that pours well (although most of the electric stainless steel ones do).. Havent actually used this yet for pour over, but I can tell it will work great (because you can aim the pour and the water volume seems about right).. CON; Slightly slower to heat water because it cycles on and off while the electronics control heating (no big deal for me). Pours slow if you just want to fill up a cup then dunk a tea bag in (kind of a pain).. If I did not want this for pour over use specifically, I would not recommend the skinny spout.. PRO: Spout pours great for aiming into little teapots, or for pour over coffee.. The temp setting IMHO is great. Much more convenient than speed of heating. I have a manual induction water pot that heats very quickly. But it will boil like mad if I don't stay and watch it. This pot will hold a temp, so it is more convenient to walk away and come back in a few. I Haven't played with the temp enough to check it out completely. But it is at least adequate. It does not go full steam ahead to get up to the temp setting, so it takes a little longer (you can hear it cycling on/off). I believe it is slightly more quiet than my old electric pot. It does remember my last setting (now if only I could remember which button to push to start it.. I wish the main button were different than the others). I suppose I will eventually remember which one it is.. I chose the smaller one because I only put the water I want to heat, into the pot (then expect an empty pot to dry afterwards). BUT I find it difficult to drain the pot completely .. When I try I end up pouring out the lid too.. Not a deal breaker. But I don't like my water to get stale. But leaving water in the pot can draw a musty smell over time, and heating the same water over multiple times will boil the oxygen out so it deosnt brew well (but perhaps Im overthinking this part)..

This kettle has a feature that if you take the kettle off the base to fill your mug and replace it on the base, it can continue to keep the water at your preset temperature. Cool! HOWEVER, the dangerous part is that if you put more water in the kettle before replacing onto the base, the system malfunctions and proceeds to aggressively heat the kettle past your preset temperature, past boiling, and keep going. And here is what is even more dangerous: Even if you realize what is happening, and push the power button to tun off the base, it continues to heat the kettle! It doesn't stop even when the power button is pushed and the LED lights turn off! We're talking burning hot steam and blasting out the sides; water kicking out of the little air holes. It's bad and this needs to be addressed. So, you have to continually check what the kettle and base are doing; make sure you don't refill the kettle while the base is still on; and make sure it's not malfunctioning. Other than that, these new models have LEDs so bright, it'll wake you up more than the caffeine kick you are hoping to get from your cup of joe. Thank the lawd you can turn off the beeping too (don't throw the instructions away) because that beep is from the depths of hades also trying to wake you up too abruptly. All in all, this just isn't as great a kettle as it should be for the price.

This is an excellent little kettle. It's the first we've purchased that precisely controls the water temperature. Who knew that coffee brewed at 200ºF would taste better than coffee brewed at 212ºF? And and the reverse for tea. It's a small kettle (1 liter) with a small spout - both take a little getting used to. It's also slightly slower than our prior electric kettles (and all seem to be slower in the US, with 110v versus the UK with 220v - maybe that's why they use 220??). The small spout is much more precise, and I haven't yet gotten the steam burns I used to, when I'd forget and reach past the spout. An unexpected benefit. Once you get used to filling it to the top for two 12-oz cups, all is good. One can see how the design engineers optimized the controls and minimized the overall number of controls. It's a bit geeky, but so is the kettle itself. One thing is that the operational modes depend on whether the kettle is sitting on the base or not. When you lift the kettle off, you can set the "count-up" timer to time, e.g., how long your tea has steeped. Forget and put the kettle on its perch and the timer stops. And when you remove the kettle, the "temperature hold" capability goes off and has to be re-engaged when the kettle is re-seated. One can manually set a target temperature, and separately press a button to say whether to hold the target temperature once it's reached. Holding it should probably be the default (it's held for, I believe, 7 minutes), but it probably defaults to not holding, for energy and safety reasons. The kettle has a set of factory preset temperatures. So you can pick among the presets and not have to use the + or - buttons that you use to manually set the temperature. One trouble: the temperatures we use (200º for coffee, 212º for certain black teas) are not in the set of presets(!). Another trouble is, you can't set your own presets. Bonavita provide an instruction booklet with recommended target temperatures. If coffee and black tea are the most commonly consumed, why aren't those temperatures included in the presets? The kettle does remember the last temperature you manually set, so you don't have to forage through the presets. If you're single or every user in the household drinks the same type of beverage, you're all set. But the kettle only remembers one temperature and forgets that when you set another or search through the presets, so a family of coffee *and* tea drinkers will end up having to use the + and - keys to set preferred temperatures. If I'd change anything on this kettle, it would be to be able to save a preferred target temperature, perhaps by remembering the last 5 set, or in the same way one saves a preferred radio station on a push-button radio (e.g., press and hold, until a beep or flash acknowledges the save). Likely the best approach, considering the limited smarts of the circuitry and people's limited set of preferences, would be to have the personal preference bump some factory preset - maybe limited to 5 presets). All of that said, I really like this kettle and would buy another one when needed.

Meine 2 Hauptkritikpunkte sind die Wertigkeit und die Genauigkeit der Temperatur. Die Wertigkeit wird dem Preis nicht gerecht. Das Produkt ist made in china und könnte rein vom Gefühl der Qualität her auch eine Fälschung sein, aber ich befürchte, es ist schon ein Original. Das Temperatur-Ziel wird es oft überschossen, was lästig ist, da 2-3°C bei pourover-Kaffee schon einen relevanten Unterschied machen können, wenn man ein bestimmtes Ziel anstrebt. Der Kessel wird mit einer Abdeckung für den Sockel geliefert, um diesen vor Wasser zu schätzen, das ist nicht hübsch, aber sehr sinnvoll und praktisch, gefällt mir. Ich werde ihn weiterbenutzen, bis er eines Tages kaputt geht oder ich einen Abnehmer finde... dann suche ich mir den Kessel mit der exaktesten Temperatur raus.

Perfect for all Chinese and Japanese tea preparation. Accurate and easy to operate temperature control. Just the right size. Boils quickly and quietly . Gongfu in my bonsai garden @tinytreeman

as I opened my coffee maker I see it's not working as I bought it before 3 months . now i need help to replace it. The kettle is burnt as soon as it was plugged into the socket. This is not A product or service one expects from amazon and it’s authorised sellers. I have also spoke and written a mail to bonavita company directly . I need help either to exchange this product or refund .

Me encantó encontrarla con descuento, ya llevo 8 años con ella. Amo que sea de calidad. Vale la pena la inversión.

プロご用達ということでコーヒードリップ用に購入してみました。 まずは、見た目に関しては高級感もあり海外メーカーらしいごつさもあるので、海外っぽさが好きな方やプロっぽい感じが好きな方はオススメなデザインです。私はごついの大好きです。 次に温度調整ですが基本動作を覚えればコーヒーは90度、お茶は80度と変更するのも簡単ですし、毎回同じ温度なら前回の温度を覚えているので、より便利です。ただプリセットされている温度が自分の使う温度と違うので変更できれば最高でした（もしかして変更できるのかもしれませんが）。あと個体差があるかもしれませんが少量だと温度コントロールが怪しいです。更に90度設定にすると80度ぐらいからカチカチ音がします（物凄く小さいですが）。両方とも個体差のような気もしますが、使用上問題がないので無視しています。あと湧き上がるまでの時間は同じ量でも日本のケトルより遅いと思いますし、沸き上がったときに音がないので気づかない事が多々あります。 次はドリップ時の重さ、持ちやすさですが、これに関しては多少重いですが、グリップの形と全体の重量バランスからとても使いやすいです。お湯の出る感じも非常になめらかで、ドリップがとてもやりやすいです。重さも含め絶妙な重量バランスをしているので、プロやカフェの現場で使われる理由が使ってみて納得できました。 総合的な評価は上記にも書きましたが、個体差なのか少量時の温度コントロールや80度以上でのカチカチ音が気になる以外はさすがの商品です。購入は並行輸入を選択したので1万円以下で買えたので価格以上に納得できました。並行輸入のリスクを考えても倍払って正規品を買う理由は無いと思います。唯一コンセントがアメリカ仕様でアースの棒が付いているので変換器はいりますが、安く色々なところで売っているので問題ありません。 コーヒーをドリップしている方なら一度使った方が良いと思います。重さがネックになる方もいるとは思いますが、良い道具を使う楽しみを味わえる一品です。