Customer Reviews

Revere 8-Cup Copper Bottom Easy Fill Tea Kettle

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If you actually drink tea you need a teakettle. If a friend drops by and the first thing you do is "put the kettle on" then this is the kettle you need. You can easily fill it from the tap. It whistles like a good kettle should. It's fast to heat with its copper bottom. The spout is moved with the handy little trigger so you need not burn yourself. It pours where it 's pointed and does not drip and spill. It is handsome enough just sitting on the stove, but not so stylish you hesitate to use it. Civilized tea drinkers, rejoice and have a cuppa.

We purchased one of these and really liked it until about 2 weeks later, when the whistle became very quiet and within a few days it stopped whistling at all! We returned it for another one, took it out of the box, and it barely whistled. It looked like steam was escaping from the lid at the top of the kettle. We researched kettles for some time before deciding on this one, and were very happy with our old Revere kettle, which died after several years (due to user error). We've tried this one and one other Revere model, and unfortunately we're back to the drawing board again.

I've had this kettle for about a month now, use it everyday and it really is a good one. I love the opening on top so I can see if I need to get in there and clean out anything. It doesn't have a loud clear whistle but whistles well enough to let you know when it's hot. It pours easily and I'm able to pour out the last drop without being burned with steam. It's a good design without leaks and the handle doesn't get hot. Of course, it would probably get hot if sitting uncentered over a gas flame. I'd buy another one but I hope I'll not need to for a very long time.

We had an earlier version of this kettle in my childhood home - a big heavy workhorse that easily handled a family of seven. This one is smaller, lighter-gauge, and has an unfortunate dribble issue when pouring out the boiling water. It also has a kludgy fill-cap that gets harder to operate as the minerals that remain in the water, even after filtering, collect on the circular opening and cap (visible in image under the handle), making it a real chore to open the thing to fill it. The trigger mechanism on the spout, that is supposed to stay in the 'up' position if you want, often doesn't stay there. Overall, a disappointment. I'm waiting for one of my kids (or me, in a rare inattentive moment) to overboil it or melt the spout or somehow damage it so I can justify replacing this rather expensive and lesser kettle. Revere Ware just isn't a guaranteed brand any more, not since they started using cheaper materials and producing most of their items in China.

I had a similar experience to another poster here in that the whistle stopped working a very short time after purchasing. The problem appears to be with the fit of the easy fill lid. It allows steam to leak - which doesn't allow enough pressure to build up behind the whistle at the spout. I've also noticed a crack in the plastic below the spout on the front - which has appeared in the last week (no steam is coming from there).

I have a 5 year old easy fill kettle that worked fine until it's untimely user-caused demise - so I'd say that there is something wrong with a particular batch of these produced in the last year or so that has ill-fitting lids and construction not up to Revere's usual high standards. AVOID the trouble and get a different Revere kettle without the easy fill lid.

Very nice kettle. The outside copper bottom has started to show green 'rust spots.' I have only used the kettle twice. I will get some copper cleaner and see if that works.