May it RIP. It served me faithfully for 15 years. It was the most
expensive kettle I ever bought at $50. It was heavy guage stainless
steel with removal whistle. You could tweek the tweeds. This one
could handle high heat for hours after a boil down. You never needed
gloves for the handle even then. It was a well balanced pot with nice
contoured handle for easy pouring with one hand. There was never any
blowback of steam from the spout when pouring. If there was a down
side you always had to remove the whistle from the spout but you could
still do that with two fingers even with the steam. In it's death
throws it revealed something about the anatomy of why it was so
efficient and durable. There is a steel plate for heat dispersion
ticky tac to the bottom of the stainless steel. Fortunately this fell
off in the sink and not above the ceramic glasstop. I'd say it weighs
at least a pound. The plate will make a nice trivet. I might try it
with a high temperature glass kettle. In the mean time I'm using a
liter sauce pan which matches the volume of the pot. It heats so fast
under two minutes on the small burners I never use I might stay with
that awhile till I get over my grieving and even think about replacing
an old friend. I've already done some scouting because I knew the tacs
were working loose and all I see is cheap and tinny and cheap and
plastic.


Jim