I'm looking for an electric kettle with these features:

1. Boils quickly (i.e. not like Zojirushi dispensers)
2. Metal on the inside, no plastic (specify if it's coated with
anything or plain steel)
3. Variable temps with wide range of possible values
4. Not more than $50.

It looks like Upton Tea has a winner for $38. But is it metal on the
inside? Is it coated? Any other problems with it? Anyone have it or a
similar kettle?

I don't know about upton, but I bought one from adagio that met those
criteria some years ago. I see they have an updated version, so I
don't know if they've made changes on the inside, but mine is metal.
It works pretty well still, though the temperature gauge is (perhaps
necessarily) not real specific, so you just have to play around with
it to see what temperature you like. At the time, that was the only
temperature-variable kettle I could find.

While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Sunday, September
07, 2008, Rainy rolled initiative and posted the following:

As a resource, this topic was discussed in the thread "Any really good
automatic tea makers?" Given the title of the thread, it's not evident
that the discussion of kettles came up.

http://tinyurl.com/55ft9v

Also see the post by Natarajan Krishnaswami where the Digital Kettle
Pro gets a "hands on" review.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Rainy gmail.com>
wrote:

There are literally dozens of models available. Amazon has quite a few
and many have owner ratings. Epinions has a long list:

http://www.epinions.com/Electric_Kettles--~all-9688_brand

"Controller falls back to warm setting automatically, to keep water
warm after boiling."

the description states it 'keeps water warm after boiling'.

It does not state it will keep the water at exactly the set
temperature.

am i missing something in the description ?

Square Peg wrote:

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:11:58 -0700 (PDT), sjones12@cogeco.ca wrote:

Well, I won't have my hands on one until tomorrow. After that, I'll
have better data.

The entire description is:

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Digital Kettle Pro makes heating water to your desired temperature so
easy! You can set the kettle to heat to a specific temperature so that
you can prepare teas with less than boiling water, like green and
white teas. Just set the temperature and it will keep it warm!

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT), Rainy gmail.com>
wrote:

Thanks, Square Peg, for the info. I look forward to your report when
you have the heater in hand. Best, ~grasshopper

On Sep 7, 4:24 pm, Square Peg wrote: