Russell Hobbs RHTT8W 1-2/3-Liter Electric Kettle with Glass Carafe and Tea Tray

I like the description, "High-tech teatime. This heated tray ensures tea that's fresh and easy-to-serve with a cordless kettle and carafe combination that keeps beverages at the perfect just-brewed temperature. Simply boil water in the electric kettle and create the perfect brew in the clear glass carafe." I have a home office and when I boil water on the stove and the phone rings, I sometimes forget to turn it off. Before something terrible happened I decided to buy an automatic teapot. I bought the Breville stainless steel for a friend who can taste plastic when boiling water. The Breville is one of the best teapots. For me the Russell Hobbs teapot tray with infuser and pitcher was the best value solution. I use a lot of loose tea and the infuser is great. The teapot works great and the heater on the tray works very well too. I bought this from Macy's on sale for $34.

What else can I say, the water gets hot and turns off automatically. I don't think the...Read more

I bought this over a year and a half ago, on sale. I was tired of coming home from work exhausted and only wanting a cup of tea to relax, then having to wait an age for the kettle to come up to boiling on the stove. This little kettle set does the trick! It brings the water to a boil very quickly. The auto shut-off feature is very nice in case you do happen to get distracted by something. The glass teapot has a nice metal infuser that sits down inside and it goes from top to bottom so there is lots of room for the loose tea to really have room to brew. The metal mesh is fine enough to contain loose tea nice and snug, so you don't get floaters like you do with many of the plastic infusers. The infuser also has a little handle that lifts up so you don't burn your fingers when you're lifting it out of the pot after the brewing is done! There is a seperate heater to keep your perfectly brewed tea piping hot so you're ready for a refill whenever you need it. I have not had any trouble with...Read more

The presence of this machine on my desk is the best thing about getting to work.

I drink a lot of tea. The hot water at my work comes from one of those red-handled little hot water taps protruding from the front of a coffee machine - it tastes a little funny (I drink my tea black so I taste the water) and just isn't hot enough for making proper black tea. My intention was to buy a kettle and a USB plate to keep my cup of tea warm . . . then I found this. Hallelujah! The cordless kettle is what you'd expect (it boils water), the little teapot pours beautifully without spills and that magical little hot plate keeps the tea in the kettle PERFECTLY hot! I can return after an hour and my tea is so hot you wouldn't know it wasn't poured from the kettle seconds earlier. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. This is so much better than the USB warmer I intended to buy would have done, I'm sure. Plus, I'm going through my precious Irish tea much slower because, with this...Read more