Travel Water Heater

I purchased this kettle to take on trips. Frist trip product worked ok. Second trip the kettle stopped working. Now when I plug the kettle in the light stays on but the water does not heat. Not even close to worth the asking price.

This tea kettle is almost good. Mine didn't shut off when it boiled the first time and water when everywhere. I had to use less water than the "maximum" and be there when it started to boil. It must be manually switched from one voltage to the other using a small screw on the bottom. It seems to have no fuse to reset if the switch doesn't quite click into place, like mine. It burned up. I'm going back to taking a larger 220V tea kettle with me to Europe/Asia etc, and my 110V to places in the US and others using 110V.

This hot water heater is great for making coffee when you're traveling (combined with the Melitta Cone Coffee maker). It heats the water to boiling in about one minute. It's European, so make sure you have the voltage switch set correctly (it comes with an plug adaptor for US use). If you want to avoid the nasty hotel pots . . . this heater combined with the portable cone coffee maker is the trick.

I haven't taken this to Europe yet but tried it in the US. The first time I used it, it did not auto-shut off as advertised but subsequent times (3 times) it worked as expected. Fast to boil. Good for traveling. Capacity is small (2 6-oz cups)so don't expected to brew 2 regular cups (8 oz) of water.

We travel a lot and always take this heater with us. After 10 years it eventually burned out. We have bought another. It is light ,compact and has worked in all sorts of third world countries. Simon