Copco One-Touch 2-1/2-Quart Enamel on Steel Teakettle, Red

 (6 customer reviews)

Bought this tea kettle as I wanted one that had an automatic opening spout. This in fact has an excellent handle design that opens the spout when you pick it up and makes it easy to fill the kettle with water thru the spout. However, the kettle doesn't always whistle and when it did, it sounded like a loud screeching horn and sputtered water from the spout and the lid when it boiled. I also found the kettle a bit on the large size (though most these days seem to be) for my personal use. Rather I have returned this for the Oxo Downpour tea kettle which I found somewhat better - a nice, consistant whistle though it also sputters a little bit of water from the spout and a slightly smaller size to my liking.

A teakettle is a fairly basic product, but there are a wide range of designs available, some better than others. This one has a basically intelligent design, but has a slight flaw. The positives: it is well made, feels solid, has a good grip on the handle, and has an innovative stopper mechanism. When the kettle is lifted, the articulated handle lifts the stopper for pouring. When the kettle is set down, the reverse happens and the stopper closes. So far, so good. The only problem is that when the water is boiling, steam rises, blows out through the whistle on the stopper and condenses on the outside of the stopper. If the kettle is lifted quickly, drops of hot water can spatter and hit the lifting hand. It's not a serious problem, but one has to be careful. Other than that we are satisfied with this product.

You have to slam the handle down to make sure it whistles, and even then can barely be heard outside the room. The only way to make the whistle loud is to push down on the handle. Half the time it never whistled, worked better if you only put very little water in, but why buy a 2.5 quart when you can only make 2 cups at a time? Disappointed since the concept seems great, but a non whistling kettle is worse than useless.