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ReviewYou won’t let the water run arid when you listen the whistle of this tea kettle. Le Creuset constructs the conventional shape out of lightweight, sturdy steel and coats it with tough enamel. A shiny stainless-steel rim helps protect the edge from chipping and facilitates the lid positioning. The high handle may be locked in an upright position to keep your hand away from the heat, and a lever on the whistling device flips the spout open for pouring. Low and broad, the base allows greatest or most complete or best possible surface contact for quicker boiling. Choose from a good deal of bright, modern colors to match or harmonize with your kitchen and other Le Creuset cookware. –Ann Bieri With it is curvy profile and classic appeal, this stovetop teakettle speedily boils up to 1-4/5 quarts of water–perfect for making tea when curling up on the couch with a book or when visiting with a friend. Measuring approximately 10 by 10 by 6 inches, the kettle’s generously sized, wide, flat base allows for more outstanding contact with a heating factor for fast results, while it is fixed whistle on the pour spout communicates with a high-pitched tone when the water has reached it is boiling point. A thumb press flips open the phenolic pour-spout lid for refined and tasteful serving. As portion of Le Creuset’s Enamel-on-Steel collection, the superiorly crafted kettle features heavy-gauge steel construction for fast heating and even heat distribution, along with a hard, shiny enamel glaze for both durability and eye-catching beauty on the stovetop. The kettle’s heat-resistant, ergonomic handle with stainless-steel brackets ensures a secure grip, allows for easy lifting and pouring, and keeps hands a safe distance from the steam. To refill the kettle, plainly remove it is round-shaped lid by pulling up on the stay-cool lid knob. A terrifi housewarming, hostess, or wedding gift, the kettle may be safely applied on all heat sources, including induction, and will have to be hand washed only with hot soapy water and dried thoroughly.

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
don’t buy this teakettle
By Christine
I received this teakettle for Christmas 2009. By April rust was evident around the lid opening, around the pouring end of the spout, and at the point the spout joined the body where there was a hairline gap in the enamel. I followed the instructions–never left water in the teakettle, never let it boil dry, didn’t bump or jostle it. I contacted Le Creuset and they said to send it back at my expense and they would decide if it merited replacing. Three weeks later the replacement arrived. It is now July and every time I put the lid on the teakettle flakes of rust pop out from under the stainless steel ring around the opening. In the last few days the rust has emerged from under the ring, so I called Le Creuset again. After being put on hold twice and finally getting referred to a supervisor Le Creuset agreed to pay the shipping to return the teakettle. As compensation they will give me a credit that I can only use to buy Le Creuset products from Le Creuset at Le Creuset prices. If I want to get a stainless steel teakettle from them I have to pay an additional $35, although I could get a third enamel on steel teakettle that most likely will rust before Thanksgiving at no additional cost. What a bargain! This is a terrible product with terrible customer service.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Flawed construction, flawed customer service
By A Book Loving Cook
Although I’ve long been a fan of Le Creuset’s cast iron enamel cookware, this teakettle is highly flawed. That’s because the plastic that encases the whistle and the spout melts. That’s right. A teakettle that is meant to be used on heat hot enough to boil water melts when you do so.

I’m now on my third kettle. But it’s my last. I bought the first on Amazon and after using it only a couple of times on my gas stove, the entire plastic casing around the spout melted. I figured I had to have done something wrong because, hey, this is Le Creuset — they’d never sell a tea kettle you couldn’t boil water in. So I bought a second one. And despite using it carefully and conservatively, within a couple of weeks it happened again. So this time I contacted Le Creuset, which disappointingly has a rather rude customer service department, and they said I had to pay for not only shipping the flawed $75 kettle to them but also pay for them to ship back a replacement (assuming they deemed to acknowledge fault and not blame me because otherwise I’d have to pay for them to send me back my wrecked kettle). I aggressively protested to various supervisors, pointing out that the shipping costs would total nearly that of a new kettle; only when I vowed to make a Better Business Bureau and Twitter stink, did they back off and paid to ship me a new one.

Although they finally agreed to handling this problem in a proper way, it came with a stern and condescending lecture that the melting had to have been my fault because the kettle was clearly marked as to not be used on a high gas flame. Having already thrown away all the original packing material, I couldn’t credibly argue with them that they were wrong, although I didn’t remember such a disclaimer/warning.

So I got my replacement model and when I did, I scrupulously studied all the packing materials and literature for that warning to not use the kettle on high heat (as if I would have originally bought it had there been such a disclosure in the product description). But there was none. No where. Nada.

Still, I was careful. I kept the flame low and made sure my gas stove never was used on a high heat anywhere near the kettle. But still, it happened again. The entire plastic casing around the spout melted. It melted all over the spout and it melted onto my stove’s burner.

I am so disappointed. I love the way this kettle looks. And I love the whole idea of Le Creuset — kitchen quality that you buy once and can have forever. But now I don’t trust their quality and I don’t trust their customer service who blamed me for their faulty product.

So I think this is the lesson learned: if you have a gas stove, do not buy this product. Unless you plan on trying to boil water in your tea kettle at a flame set to simmer. And Le Creuset should either fix this product or eliminate it because it’s a blight on their reputation.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED – RUST AFTER LESS THAN 1 MONTH
By Michael P. Liberati
I was extremely excited to purchase this Le Creuset product, as I swear by me enamel coated dutch ovens and pans. However, this product is a piece of JUNK. After less than one month of daily use, the product began to rust. I first noticed the rust when I was re-filling the kettle. I saw a large rust spot that was flaky and discoloring the water. This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. The product has been well taken care of, but clearly there is a manufacturing and/ design issue here. Le Creuset will be receiving a letter asking for a refund for this one!

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