Cuisinart 2-Quart Everyday Stainless-Steel Teakettle  Product Reviews

"I just purchased this teakettle today and my review is based on one day of use. Update: After 6 months I like this pot every bit as much as the day I got it. Design First off, it looks very nice and feels well built. As advertised, the finish is mirror clear. Designed for hanging, the handle feels very sturdy and looks to be well attached. The nose piece seems to be a slightly lighter weight stainless steel with a lightweight metal ball at the end. Attached with a screw, the ball may have a tendency to come loose over time. Use With a quart of water, the kettle boils well with a nice whistling sound. At a boil, the handle is warm but not uncomforable to the touch. The ball and nose piece are warm when removed but not hot and I experienced no issues with excessive steam once the unit was removed from the burner. Pouring is easy and the handle offers a range of positions from which to hold the pot. The only areas of the handle that are hot are the rods attaching the handle to the pot and they are unlikely to cause a burn if touched. Recommendation This is a nice stylish kettle and will probably hold up well over time. I can only imagine other owners have filled the pot to capacity when the handle has become hot and that may also affect the pouring. As far as cleaning the pot I can not understand who needs to scrub the inside of the pot unless they are making soup directly in the pot."

"Mr Dances to blue this is a Bad product ....period ...whatever other ( only one agrees) say about it being a good one ....its not Think of getting a diff kettle ....as simple as tha B"

"These are some fussy, fussy reviewers. First things first. The topper of this kettle is NOT plastic. Maybe the little ball on the end of it is; I don't know. It does look like it is cast and thus perhaps - perhaps - is not metal. It has never come off, and, if it did, I would use my handy-dandy philips screwdriver and put it back on, maybe tighten it a bit tighter. The handle - yeah, it gets hot sometimes, not all the time. Now that I think about it, as I consider it now while writing this, it seems to me that maybe it's when the kettle is REALLY full that it gets hot enough to be an annoyance, but even then I've not needed a hot pad. Not once. I've had this dude for over a year, and I drink tea every day. I just boiled some water in the kettle, the tea now steeping. I paid attention to taking the top off. I've learned to let it steam out for a second or two, no longer, and then removed it. If I DIDN'T wait that second or two, yeah, I'd have gotten my hand steamed. But since I SAW steam, and knew that I didn't want to put my hand in steam, I waited the one or two seconds, and then pulled the lid off. WITHOUT, I might add, without using a hot pad or dish towel or pliers, I just grabbed hold of it and took it off. (Hmmm - if that ball IS plastic, maybe it is by design, maybe because if it was metal of any type it surely would burn your hand, water boils at 212 if I recall correctly, and even if I'm wrong I do know that it's plenty hot enough to burn your fingers.) Regardless what the ball on the end is made of, the lid is stainless steel. And the lid itself is pretty cool - it kicks up a racket when the water hits a boil but then it quiets down a bit. I don't know if it is by design or I just got lucky with this particular lid. But it does quiet down after yowling for a few seconds, a nice thing if I'm not close at hand and don't want to be annoyed by a screaming kettle. As far as cleaning out the inside of the kettle - um, what in the world are you all boiling? Tar? Industrial waste? Myself, I boil filtered water. It is as clean in there, as they say, as a whistle. I mean, the whole idea of boiling water is to keep things clean, to steralize them maybe, or perhaps I'm wrong. Do tell. What I CAN tell you is that I just looked in that dang kettle, after boiling that water, and it is spotless inside. Maybe these are the same types of folks who clean out anything and everything, or maybe they are smoking crack. I don't know. The thing is pretty, it works fine, it whistles some and then shuts up til I get there, it's stainless (thus easy to keep clean outside, and shiny), and if the topper ever gives me any problems I will immediately call Cuisinart and I guarantee you that they will send me fifteen other toppers, or twenty, shined, polished, ready for the task at hand; Cuisinart has great customer service, in my experience, they didn't get to where they are by being mopes. I'm not the sort to write reviews - I read them, not write them. A failing - I confess it. But on reading the reviews about this kettle I felt compelled to add my voice and my five stars (which would likely have been four if I wasn't trying to balance off these inside-the-pot-cleaners, these delicate-handed whiners), to raise it up a bit in the estimation of anyone looking for a fine, stylish, relatively inexpensive tea kettle."

"i completely agree w/ the other reviews. this is a terribly designed kettle in terms of usability. it's impossible to clean the inside of the kettle. while the handle looks nicely curved, there's no way to pick it up w/o a potholder when the kettle is hot. the worst part is the whistle/cover. although i've developed a knack of taking it off (after almost getting burnt by the steam coming off the two little holes several times initially), the ball keeps falling off regardless of how many different glues i've tried on. w/o the ball, its asthetic value largely decreases. and yet w/ the chipped paint on a plastic ball, the kettle does not look all that asthetically pleasing anymore. do NOT even consider this kettle for any reason. it serves absolutely no purpose unless you're decorating a model home where this kettle is for display only."