OXO Good Grips Pick Me Up Tea Kettle, Brushed Stainless

 (17 customer reviews)

It's excellent, and much lighter than other models. It works just as well, but there's no strain lifting the full kettle.

This is the best tea kettle we have owned. I almost didn't buy it based on user comments saying it was difficult to fill with water. This may be true if you have a very large spray head on your faucet. However for us - take lid off teapot, place faucet near opening, and fill with water. The automatic spout opener is fabulous - good engineering. We have used it daily for 5 months. No problem with the whistle. I would not hesitate giving this as a gift.

We bought one of these locally last May, and used it once or twice a day until the plastic ring holding the whistler in place suddenly broke in two a few weeks ago. We thought maybe the cleaning lady had dropped it, until we went shopping for another one and read the reviews and complaints here. We couldn't find another kettle we liked, so I called Oxo and told them what happened, and they immediately said they'd ship us a new one. They also asked us to send this one back (at their expense); the marketing research department is apparently trying to figure out what's causing them to break like that; may have been a bad batch, who knows?

FWIW, we have a ceramic cooktop, so no flames to melt it. The kettle heated up quickly, sometimes quickly enough that we'd find ourselves running back into the kitchen a few minutes later to get it off the stove because the whistle is simply ear-piercing (loudest tea kettle whistle I have ever heard). I actually hate the whistle, but we tend...Read more