Revere 3-1/2-Quart Copper Bottom Teakettle
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Revere 3-1/2-Quart Copper Bottom Teakettle
Customer Review: Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of owning & using one of these swears by it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up with a Revere teakettle, which my mom (at 90 years old) still has. Living in apartments later, I used an enamel one and would be close enough to it to know when it was boiling. When I moved to Taiwan, I used a large aluminum kettle for boiling water for drinking, cooking, ice cubes (so I boiled large quantities at a time). That was large enough that it could hardly be forgotten -- except for one time when I was rushing around getting my house ready for someone to house sit while I visited the US and I realized, in the air, 2 hours outside of Tokyo on the way to the US, that I had left the kettle boiling. By divine grace, I found out when I finally got a hold of someone in Taipei, the gas in the canister had run out just at the same time that the water boiled away.
After my return to the US, I had a treasured Revereware tea kettle passed on to me about 12 years ago, and it served me well until about six months ago, when the whistler came out or loose and my DH threw that part out. You can imagine ... "You THREW it OUT??? That's the best teakettle you can buy! You know that." Since then, he has bought several other whistling teakettles for me and I keep burning them up; they just don't whistle well, for a variety of reasons -- loose seals, off-kilter spout and whistle cover, whistles that blow right off the kettle, kettles that get dropped because the handle heats up ....
I have to have a good whistling tea kettle to save me from myself, and a Revereware teakettle is the only one that will do. Period.
Made of good quality reflective steel, these are very forgiving stove-top workhorses, always returning to a pleasureable reflective shine when polished up for guests, special occasions, or just to brighten your day.
In teakettles, you get what you pay for. Revere copper-bottomed teakettles are more than worth the money and, as you can see from other reviews, not only serve reliably for many many years but bring great pride and pleasure to the simplest of cooking activities, that of boiling water.
Customer Review: It's a Kettle
Summary: 4 Stars
this guy was walking by my house smoking a cigarette. i could smell the smoke and thought to myself OMG that's bad if i can smell a cigarette outside my house w the windows closed...imagine my surprise when i walked out of my home office to see smoke every where and my smoke alarm going off...know what time it was? time for a new tea kettle, one w a whistle on it. it was my old tea kettle burning on the stove bc there was no whistle on it and i forgot about it.
this tea kettle is good. i can't give it 5 stars for two reasons.
1. for me to love a tea kettle there better be something great about it...something exceptional. there is nothing exceptional about this tea kettle. don't get me wrong...its not a bad tea kettle but for me to give it 5 stars this thing should do something other tea kettles don't do.
2. the space between the trigger and the metal is quite small. so to pull the trigger to open the lid you have to be very careful not to touch the metal. i did a couple of times really burning myself once.
other than that i have no complaints. i mean, when you put it on fire the water boils. that's a good thing, right? the handle does not get hot for me. i read a few reviews that the handle got hot. i can't see anyone having a problem w the handle getting hot unless you're deaf or don't mind what sounds like the whistle for the end of the work day on the Flintstones. which brings me to my next point. i think i read that some people said the whistle wasn't loud enough? this thing is loud...you'll hear it all thru your house unless you live with the Gates family and the water does boil pretty fast, due to the copper bottom. another good thing about it is when you pull the trigger the lid opens very wide giving you lots of space to pour your tea or fill it up at the sink.
if this is the price range you're looking to spend i would recommend this kettle...not strongly but i would recommend it.
Customer Review: Not what you think
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased the Revere 3 ½ Quart Copper Bottom Teakettle as a gift for my fathers 94th birthday. He had the 2 ½ qt. model for over 25 years. The whistle finally failed and the kettle had to be replaced. The 3 ½ Qt. model appeared to be the perfect replacement.
It wasn't for my father, there were three main reasons why, they are as follows:
1. The flip up whistling cap did not create a good seal with the spout. This caused the kettle to take an inordinate amount of time to come to a boil. When it did boil, it steamed out the spout and made little or no whistling sound, rendering it dangerous to use for fear of boiling over.
2. The trigger that controls the flip up whistle cap is at an odd
angle, in relation to the gripping handle. A person with small or weak hands can't hold the pot and pull the trigger with one hand, forcing the use of two hands to do the job. Besides being inconvenient it is dangerous. The two hand process could scald a person.
3. The size and weight of the 3 ½ Qt. kettle when even half way full is too heavy and unwieldy for people with weak hands or arthritis. Once again this makes the product dangerous to use for these folks.
I ended up getting the 2 ½ Qt. model from a local hardware store. This model has a differently designed handle/spout/flip up whistle cap then the 3 ½ Qt. model. The 2 ½ Qt. model is perfect for my fathers purposes.
Customer Review: Just like Mom's old teakettle when I was a kid!
Summary: 4 Stars
I've lived with/endured a number of cheap enameled teakettles since I was a newlywed (back in the early 1980s). They all had removable lids, which made them easy to fill; however, they all tended to be on the small side, and would eventually develop thick hard-water deposits on the inside (and those hard-water deposits were the one thing keeping the cheap, thin metal they were made out of from burning through and leaking!). When the handle of the latest cheap teakettle melted/fell off after less than 2 weeks, I'd finally had enough. The RevereWare teakettles were the best-rated of the less-expensive teakettles on Consumer Search, and they came in 3 different sizes. This 3.5 quart size most closely resembled what I remembered of my mom's old teakettle from when I was a little girl, so I ordered it. I love the large capacity! It's great for multiple cups of coffee/tea/single-serve ramen noodles in a cup/etc., and it's also a good size for keeping boiled water on hand when there's a boil order in town. The spout is slightly less convenient for filling the teakettle than a lid would have been, but it's a nice large spout (I stick a finger inside to feel the water level when refilling). I haven't owned this long enough yet to have to scrub the copper bottom clean; however, since it's the only piece of copper-bottom cookware I own at this point, it shouldn't be too tedious to clean just one thing. Highly recommended!Customer Review: Perfect for our need
Summary: 5 Stars
To be honest, the first kettle they sent had to be returned because the bottom copper seal had been pierced by the factory stamping and crimping process and it leaked. It was not an obvious defect and an easy overlook on Revere's quality control. BUT, Amazon's return and replacement made the swap for a new one easier than a trip to a local store. We've bought lots of stuff from Amazon over the years and never had to return anything, but my chringing at the thought just felt silly afterwards.
Anyway, The kettle is as close to perfect as we had hoped and sitting side-by-side with our old one really shows this kettle's timeless design and high quality for a very reasonable price. It is a large-ish kettle, but well balanced. Water heats quickly with this design. The bell shape must concentrate the heat that the copper bottom conveys and probably would not heat as quickly if there were a large lid for filling. We use filtered water from the refrigerator door, so filling something to then fill this kettle is a little bit of a hassle, but holding a large slowly-filling kettle at the frig door would be a bit too much to be comfortable with anyway.
The reason we bought this larger kettle was that we make a full commercial sized thermos pump of green tea at one time. We found that if you let green tea steep long enough you get a rich amber full flavored brew as you might with black tea. Just sayin'