With the Smarter iKettle 3 rd Gen, you can easily integrate the device into an existing smart home network.

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This sleek, space age kettle placed highly in both our exterior temperature and heat retention tests. If you want to unlock a whole new level of lazy – sorry, ‘home automation’ – then the Smarter iKettle 3.The app allows you to select a temperature between 20 and 100C – the lowest starting point in all our tests. These features are a little rarer, so you'll want to check in on individual product listings and options to work out exactly what services they'll integrate with. There’s a keep-warm feature, too, which will maintain the water temperature you’ve set for up to 30 minutes.

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For manual controls, there’s an illuminated button in the base that you can press to boil at the default quick settings you determine in the app. For power usage, kettles that draw more power will boil faster; lower-rated kettles will take longer to get your water to boiling point.You still get all the same features that you do in the gooseneck kettle, including temperature control with a range of 104 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and voice control via Alexa.

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In line with the Italian company’s other appliances, the KLF03 is available in a variety of pastel shades and features a raised Smeg logo on each side. This kettle from Cosori also has a gooseneck design for accurate pouring, but it's a little less refined and beautiful overall than some other smart kettles out there. Not so with the Cuisinart Signature Collection Multi-temp Kettle, which has everything built into its handle. If you’re someone who is a real lover of all sorts of teas or making fancy coffee, then the Dualit Pour Over Kettle is an ideal choice.

An increasingly popular (and rather expensive) alternative is to install a hot water tap and do away with your kettle altogether. Cheaper kettles usually have a more basic metal or plastic design, and stick to the basic job of boiling water. The annoyances are the rather inaccurate boiling temperatures and the process to check the level of water inside the kettle. We've found some brilliant cheaper kettles, and some terrible, expensive ones, so paying more doesn't guarantee a good result.

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To add one caveat, it should be noted that the Zwilling Enfinigy Pro has an 1,850W heating coil, unlike many of the other kettles on our list, which tend to have 3,000W elements.Do note, this isn’t a general all-purpose kettle due to that small capacity, but for those wanting a truly specialist appliance, Dualit definitely has you covered. If you tend to get impatient for your morning cup of tea or coffee, the 3 mins 45 secs it takes the Enfinigy Pro to boil a litre of water may prove a tad too long for your liking.