I was a stove kettle devotee until I found this dashing electric one in my signature color Each morning as I let my dog outside and feed the cats, I listen to water slowly warm, then bubble, and finally boil before a tell-tale ?click? spurs me to get my mug. I take my morning ritual as seriously as my most coffee-obsessed friends?only when I wake up, I head straight to the kitchen and turn on an electric kettle.
Growing up with a Russian mom, I was taught to enjoy a morning cup of tea from an early age, as Russians traditionally prefer tea to coffee. On weekends, my mom would wake me up with a kiss and a hug, then set a pot of tea on the stove. Because she always insisted on a ?real? kettle (i.e. non-electric), when I moved to New York City as an 18-year-old college freshman, I brought a real kettle, too?and carried one around for the next 12 years. I loved the classic kettles I went through but when I moved back to my hometown in Florida, I found myself with an electric stove (instead of a gas one as I?d been used to) and soon became frustrated by how long it took boil water on there.
A year later, around when I got married and began house-hunting with my husband, my mom finally convinced me to go the electric kettle route. She had long given up on her own love of real kettles and assured me that the tea will taste just as sweet.
But I had a specific vision for my new kettle: I still wanted that classic ?kettle? look (not the typical elongated look of electric ke...