Breville VKJ142 Energy Saving Hot (one) Cup Water Kettle
Ever thought you could improve on the kettle for the convenience of making a cup of tea? No? Well it turns out you can. Enter the Breville HotCup:

www.breville.co.uk/products/kettles/hot-water-on-demand/breville-hotcup-1.html

By just boiling what you need you can save energy. With the Breville HotCup you just press a button and it dispenses one cup of boiling water, so you choose the right number of cups to boil. Tens of millions of pounds are wasted on unnecessary electricity each year by people boiling water they don't need. So why not avoid wasting your hard-earned cash on hefty electricity bills and just boil the number of cups you need? Spend your money on something fun! By saving energy you are also reducing the drain on the world's natural resources, which is never a bad thing!"

Except, of course, you can't adjust the amount of water that comes out of the thing. Meaning, you have to empty half the liquid down the sink (or into the drip tray). Not so eco-friendly now eh? Fortunately we found a solution... BIGGER CUPS! The planet is saved. Hoorah!
(Nitrous Nitrous, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 22:48, 6 replies)

Breville will just make a bigger VKJ143 to counter your bigger cups. You've not found a solution, you've just set us on a path of destructive one-upmanship that will end in the Western hemisphere being a gigantic instant kettle, and the Eastern being a similarly gigantic (but still slightly too small) mug.
(Timberwolf, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 22:51, closed)

reply of the week!
nice whimsy :)
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 9:35, closed)

This may mark me as a seditionist.
For years, we've used a kettle on the gas cooker. Add as much water as you need, it boils quickly, job done.
Cost of kettle?, less than £10
Cost to boil?, less than an electric kettle.
Gadget factor rating?, zero.
Cool factor rating?, zero.
Works during power cuts?, yes. ( but so would a pan on the hob )
If the gas supply gets cut as well, as happened in 1989, it works on my camping stove.
This may be the solution for the problem of the West turning into a giant kettle while the East is a slightly under-capacity mug.
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 9:57, closed)

I have one which DOES let you adjust the amount of hot water
Also by Breville - can't remember the model number though. Makes smashing tea!!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 10:52, closed)

a friend bought one
he's a doley scum 25 cups of tea a day gamer, he had the sense to fork out the extra for an extended warranty which has turned out nicely for him

- he's currently on his fifth one !
(AndySpanners not working too hard on, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 16:00, closed)

They wear out quickly, then?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 19:22, closed)