- Bonavita 1L Digital Variable Temperature Gooseneck Electric Kettle for Coffee Brew and Tea Precise Pour Control, 6 Preset Temps, Café or Home Use, 1200 Watt, LED Panel, Stainless Steel

I purchased this kettle when I first got into pour over coffee. I've used it for 10 months now, and so far it has worked flawlessly. It heats up unto 1 liter of water to temperatures of 212F or less and maintains a constant temperature for upto an hour. The heat up time is very quick - quicker than using a microwave for a similar volume of water, but the real convenience is the hold feature, which lets you set the water up to heat and go off and do other things. You can choose Centigrade or Fahrenheit and it will remember your selection. My pour over setup is simple - the filter holder from a Bonavita coffee machine placed over the carafe of a Bodum French Press. The spout of this kettle is very well designed to work with this or really any pour over setup. I have not bothered to buy a dedicated pour over kit, since this setup makes excellent coffee without adding other gadget to my kitchen. In 10 months of use, I have not had it rust, and I certainly do not empty or dry it after each use. And while its primary purpose is to make coffee, I am surprised at how many other uses we have found for it - heating water to boiling to prepare brown rice in the oven, for sterilizing the spoons, forks, and small strainer I use to make yogurt, preheating flasks we use to keep food warm in, making tea - these are just a few examples. For all these applications, the quick heat up time is very useful. About the only thing I'd wish they'd have done different would be to not have to press a "hold" button to maintain temperature; the way it is set up now, if you do not do that, it will heat up and once it hits set point, start to cool down again. It is a minor inconvenience in an otherwise very well designed and useful appliance. Update: About 14 months after purchase, the kettle started showing occasional random temperature jumps while heating. Even though out of warranty, I contacted Bonavita and they promptly shipped me a replacement.

When we got an AeroPress in July 2018, we realized we needed a convenient way to heat the water to a specific temperature, since you should not be using boiling water for your AeroPress. I reviewed a number of adjustable temp kettles before deciding on this one. Specifically, I was looking for one with an easy to set temp that also remembered the previous setpoint. This one fit the bill, and we bought it a week after we bought the AeroPress. For over a year and a half, this has been cranking out hot water for us. Typically it is used twice each morning for coffee for my wife and I, who usually get up and moving at different times, and in the winter I use it considerably for making tea throughout the day. Turns out, maintaining the previous setpoint wasn't all that useful after all (though it still is nice), since my wife and I have settled on different temps for making coffee in the Aeropress. What is useful is the quick temps. With one button, it cycles through preset temps of 140, 176, 185, 190, 205, and 208 °F (or equivalent °C if in °C mode), and we've ended up using this almost exclusively. I brew coffee with the 176 °F setting, my wife uses 185 °F. Since you have to add water after you use the AeroPress (or milk/etc), I usually brew the coffee, then set the pot back on the base and tap the preset temp button several times to the 208 °F to top off my mug with really hot water, as I like hot drinks. So we typically are pressing this button numerous times per day, and they've obviously used quality buttons since it shows no signs of wearing out. The temp can be adjusted in 1 °F increments from the preset using the + and - buttons (and again, it always turns back on to the last used temp, whether that is a pre-set or custom temp). Adjustable range is 140 °F to 212 °F. Temp accuracy: If I put my meat thermometer right at the temp sensor, the thermometer reads ~2 °F higher than the kettle. Not a big deal, and explains why a roiling boil happens at a displayed 210 °F and it never reaches 212 °F. Hold button: By default, the pot shuts off when it reaches the set temp. Pressing "hold" will have the pot maintain the set temp for an hour before turning off. You can press hold as soon as you turn the pot on and it will climb to your set temp and hold. Great for turning the pot on and taking a shower, and it will be at just the right temp when you get back to it. Cleaning: They say to use only a "special" cleaner that they sell...go figure. Nah, I put half a pot of vinegar, half a pot of water, turn to the 208 °F preset and "hold" for an hour. When I get back to it all the calcium buildup is gone. Rinse with water and refill for your next use. Rust: I've seen people mention rust. One time I thought I saw signs of rust, but cleaning with vinegar removed it and I haven't seen it since. Maybe it was iron in the water or maybe something was growing. Not sure. Calcium: As with all pots used to boil hard water, calcium will build up on the bottom. This starts flaking off after some time, and with the spout going to the bottom of the pot any calcium flakes that break off will come right out of the spout immediately on pouring. This could be an issue depending on your point of view. If you don't like this, get a pot with a top-pour spout and this won't happen. Cleaning more often or using distilled water are two ways you can fix this. The other way is to just not drink your coffee/tea to the very bottom of your cup, i.e. don't tilt your cup "up" past horizontal and leave just a tad in the bottom and you won't accidentally "drink" these calcium bits. Other: The pot can swivel 360° on the base, and since it has a temp sensor in the pot the power and temp signals are transmitted through the use of a pin and 4 concentric rings of metal on bottom the pot that contact 5 spring loaded pins in the base (the power pins are recesses and cannot be touched on accident, plus the base will not supply power if the pot is missing). I have noticed (only occasionally) that something, I assume minor corrosion, will occasionally throw off the temp reading or recognizing that a pot is attached. Usually this seems to happen if you put the pot at a different angle then normal. If this happens, the fix is easy. With the pot fully lowered on the base, just swing it back and forth a few times until the temp display stops changing when the pot is rotated. Again, I've only noticed this once or twice. Could have just been a piece of dust or something got on a contact. Summary: Great pot, accurate temps, handy pre-sets, holds last temp in memory, reliable and long lasting. Will definitely order again if we need a replacement or if we want a dedicated one for our RV rather than taking this one with us.

This is an excellent little kettle. It's the first we've purchased that precisely controls the water temperature. Who knew that coffee brewed at 200ºF would taste better than coffee brewed at 212ºF? And and the reverse for tea. It's a small kettle (1 liter) with a small spout - both take a little getting used to. It's also slightly slower than our prior electric kettles (and all seem to be slower in the US, with 110v versus the UK with 220v - maybe that's why they use 220??). The small spout is much more precise, and I haven't yet gotten the steam burns I used to, when I'd forget and reach past the spout. An unexpected benefit. Once you get used to filling it to the top for two 12-oz cups, all is good. One can see how the design engineers optimized the controls and minimized the overall number of controls. It's a bit geeky, but so is the kettle itself. One thing is that the operational modes depend on whether the kettle is sitting on the base or not. When you lift the kettle off, you can set the "count-up" timer to time, e.g., how long your tea has steeped. Forget and put the kettle on its perch and the timer stops. And when you remove the kettle, the "temperature hold" capability goes off and has to be re-engaged when the kettle is re-seated. One can manually set a target temperature, and separately press a button to say whether to hold the target temperature once it's reached. Holding it should probably be the default (it's held for, I believe, 7 minutes), but it probably defaults to not holding, for energy and safety reasons. The kettle has a set of factory preset temperatures. So you can pick among the presets and not have to use the + or - buttons that you use to manually set the temperature. One trouble: the temperatures we use (200º for coffee, 212º for certain black teas) are not in the set of presets(!). Another trouble is, you can't set your own presets. Bonavita provide an instruction booklet with recommended target temperatures. If coffee and black tea are the most commonly consumed, why aren't those temperatures included in the presets? The kettle does remember the last temperature you manually set, so you don't have to forage through the presets. If you're single or every user in the household drinks the same type of beverage, you're all set. But the kettle only remembers one temperature and forgets that when you set another or search through the presets, so a family of coffee *and* tea drinkers will end up having to use the + and - keys to set preferred temperatures. If I'd change anything on this kettle, it would be to be able to save a preferred target temperature, perhaps by remembering the last 5 set, or in the same way one saves a preferred radio station on a push-button radio (e.g., press and hold, until a beep or flash acknowledges the save). Likely the best approach, considering the limited smarts of the circuitry and people's limited set of preferences, would be to have the personal preference bump some factory preset - maybe limited to 5 presets). All of that said, I really like this kettle and would buy another one when needed.

Getting into specialty coffee and roasting, I saved up and bought this kettle back in 2016 when I was a kid, with my one reservation being that I'd read two reports about accidentally bending the gooseneck and causing the unit to leak. I have kept that in mind over the years, but I can say it has lived up to being used multiple times a day with 0 issue. I always use distilled water, so I still haven't needed to clean it. If you are brewing tea in it, I'm unsure how easy it would be to clean out spout. I don't have concerns about it bending, as the spout feels far more sturdy than I thought. The spout is nice, thick metal, and it being in a tube really helps it maintain it's shape. I've accidentally pushed the spout into the wall or other kitchen appliances, sometimes while water was in it, and it has never showed any deformation. The unit heats up pretty fast, if I fill it with a liter hot water out of my dispenser (~170F) it'll only take a minute or two to get up to the 205 I brew at, and even from room temp it takes less than 4 or 5 minutes. I find if I can remember to turn it on first, the water is at a good temperature by the time I've ground my coffee and wet my chemex filter. I can't stress just how nice a gooseneck is when it comes to pourover. You can pour water out of the spout wherever you want accurately with ease, to the point where I'm constantly pouring out water weighed down to gram, as it is easy to just pour out only a milliliter even. My unit still looks and functions just as well as when I bought it, and the buttons on the screen (the screen is plastic and feels a little cheap) have held up perfectly, which was another concern of mine. If I do manage to break it, I will definitely replace it, and I think mine will honestly last another decade and stay perfectly functional.

REVISED March 2026: It took some time, but Bonavita Customer Service came through. They replied, and said they would replace it. It took a couple of emails to make sure they were going to send it to the right address, but eventually they got it right and the kettle arrived as promised. It's working great. Bonavita customer service: 4.5/5 This kettle: As of now, 5/5 (fingers crossed it lasts) ORIGINAL REVIEW: When we got our bonavita kettle, we were excited. Within a couple of weeks, we were thrilled because: It heated water so quickly! It turned off automatically (no more burnt kettle when the whistle decides not to work)! You can choose which temperature according to what you're brewing - coffee, green tea, black tea... The goose neck is excellent for pour-over coffee. You can choose to have it hold at a certain temperature (so your partner is happy to find hot water waiting for them). It's much easier to open than our last gooseneck kettle. It looks spiffy! So this bonavita kettle contributed to domestic bliss in our upper midwest household for 8 months. But then, in January, as one of the coldest days we've ever experienced approached...IT DIED. We had turned it on without filling it, so it was only about 1/4 full. It heated, then shut off (someone was distracted and didn't go make their tea). But then the next person came along and turned it on, and it didn't heat. They checked and added water. Still didn't heat. Unplugged and replugged. Didn't heat. Water stayed at 65 F (like I said, it's cold here, so water coming from the basement pipes is cold). We checked the manual. Nothing worked. So we contacted Bonavita customer service. The replied in two days. They said it can't be repaired, but can be replaced. I've sent them everything they asked for. Now it's been a week since the last email and no reply from customer service. If they follow through and replace it, I'll change this review, but the lack of response from customer service is disappointing.

This is an electric kettle that makes water get hot. The best part is that I can tell it exactly how hot to make the water, and it will obey. Just a few simple buttons and I can brew my coffee to perfection. The design is such that the water pours out very smoothly and evenly, giving the pourer a great deal of control. I prefer that method over giving the water freedom, which will almost always result in a mess. The features are simple: a base station with the controls also functions as a stabilizer, but it does not contain the heating element. The kettle itself was promoted to that position, keeping the heating element safely contained in the bottom. I like that, because there isn't any easy way for me to burn myself on it. Controls you ask? A button turns it on. Another pair of buttons, (+/-) allow you to raise or lower the desired temperature. The unit can be set to Fahrenheit, but if you ever find yourself traveling to a non-Imperialist nation, you can switch it to Celsius and feel right at home. The final button is my favorite because it sets the desired temperature and will hold it as long as the kettle is on the base. If you remove the kettle then replace it, simply press that hold button and everything will gravitate back toward your initial desired temperature. Since water tends to cool off several degrees once removed from its heat source, I find this feature to be invaluable because it allows me greater control of the temperature variable, taking my coffee snobbery to dangerously high levels bordering those of organic chemistry. Since I purchased this kettle, I have yet to find a serious flaw. It heats up as quickly as a nuclear reactor firing up, and makes my coffee taste wonderful. I suppose if I had one criticism, it's the time it takes to stabilize the temperature in hold mode. Sometimes it will go several degrees higher than necessary, but I think that's more a condition of what the heating element is actually doing. If it gets too hot, I have to wait a few more seconds or it to drop to the proper temp. This really only annoys my coffee snobbery, because I also use a timer. I've just learned to watch it very closely. It's not rocket science here, folks. In closing, the Bonavita kettle is very highly recommended because it makes it much easier to brew mind-altering coffee. Since that was my original plan all along, I'm glad I purchased this kettle.

This kettle has a feature that if you take the kettle off the base to fill your mug and replace it on the base, it can continue to keep the water at your preset temperature. Cool! HOWEVER, the dangerous part is that if you put more water in the kettle before replacing onto the base, the system malfunctions and proceeds to aggressively heat the kettle past your preset temperature, past boiling, and keep going. And here is what is even more dangerous: Even if you realize what is happening, and push the power button to tun off the base, it continues to heat the kettle! It doesn't stop even when the power button is pushed and the LED lights turn off! We're talking burning hot steam and blasting out the sides; water kicking out of the little air holes. It's bad and this needs to be addressed. So, you have to continually check what the kettle and base are doing; make sure you don't refill the kettle while the base is still on; and make sure it's not malfunctioning. Other than that, these new models have LEDs so bright, it'll wake you up more than the caffeine kick you are hoping to get from your cup of joe. Thank the lawd you can turn off the beeping too (don't throw the instructions away) because that beep is from the depths of hades also trying to wake you up too abruptly. All in all, this just isn't as great a kettle as it should be for the price.

I do pour-over coffee using Melitta filters (to more easily handle the used coffee grinds). I had been using a typical electric kettle which finally died at 7 years. As I shopped for a replacement, I studied all the reviews and looked at the designs. I chose this one because of the good reviews, its price, and the design of the handle (better shape for old feeble hands). Well, it’s perfect in every way. It’s quite good looking, fast, has great controls, and easy to fill. I’m 100% satisfied!

Meine 2 Hauptkritikpunkte sind die Wertigkeit und die Genauigkeit der Temperatur. Die Wertigkeit wird dem Preis nicht gerecht. Das Produkt ist made in china und könnte rein vom Gefühl der Qualität her auch eine Fälschung sein, aber ich befürchte, es ist schon ein Original. Das Temperatur-Ziel wird es oft überschossen, was lästig ist, da 2-3°C bei pourover-Kaffee schon einen relevanten Unterschied machen können, wenn man ein bestimmtes Ziel anstrebt. Der Kessel wird mit einer Abdeckung für den Sockel geliefert, um diesen vor Wasser zu schätzen, das ist nicht hübsch, aber sehr sinnvoll und praktisch, gefällt mir. Ich werde ihn weiterbenutzen, bis er eines Tages kaputt geht oder ich einen Abnehmer finde... dann suche ich mir den Kessel mit der exaktesten Temperatur raus.

Perfect for all Chinese and Japanese tea preparation. Accurate and easy to operate temperature control. Just the right size. Boils quickly and quietly . Gongfu in my bonsai garden @tinytreeman

as I opened my coffee maker I see it's not working as I bought it before 3 months . now i need help to replace it. The kettle is burnt as soon as it was plugged into the socket. This is not A product or service one expects from amazon and it’s authorised sellers. I have also spoke and written a mail to bonavita company directly . I need help either to exchange this product or refund .

La verdad es que es muy buena, todo muy bien. Me encanta el control de temperatura y cómo avisa. Es bonita, aunque no la más estética.

プロご用達ということでコーヒードリップ用に購入してみました。 まずは、見た目に関しては高級感もあり海外メーカーらしいごつさもあるので、海外っぽさが好きな方やプロっぽい感じが好きな方はオススメなデザインです。私はごついの大好きです。 次に温度調整ですが基本動作を覚えればコーヒーは90度、お茶は80度と変更するのも簡単ですし、毎回同じ温度なら前回の温度を覚えているので、より便利です。ただプリセットされている温度が自分の使う温度と違うので変更できれば最高でした（もしかして変更できるのかもしれませんが）。あと個体差があるかもしれませんが少量だと温度コントロールが怪しいです。更に90度設定にすると80度ぐらいからカチカチ音がします（物凄く小さいですが）。両方とも個体差のような気もしますが、使用上問題がないので無視しています。あと湧き上がるまでの時間は同じ量でも日本のケトルより遅いと思いますし、沸き上がったときに音がないので気づかない事が多々あります。 次はドリップ時の重さ、持ちやすさですが、これに関しては多少重いですが、グリップの形と全体の重量バランスからとても使いやすいです。お湯の出る感じも非常になめらかで、ドリップがとてもやりやすいです。重さも含め絶妙な重量バランスをしているので、プロやカフェの現場で使われる理由が使ってみて納得できました。 総合的な評価は上記にも書きましたが、個体差なのか少量時の温度コントロールや80度以上でのカチカチ音が気になる以外はさすがの商品です。購入は並行輸入を選択したので1万円以下で買えたので価格以上に納得できました。並行輸入のリスクを考えても倍払って正規品を買う理由は無いと思います。唯一コンセントがアメリカ仕様でアースの棒が付いているので変換器はいりますが、安く色々なところで売っているので問題ありません。 コーヒーをドリップしている方なら一度使った方が良いと思います。重さがネックになる方もいるとは思いますが、良い道具を使う楽しみを味わえる一品です。