Electric metal kettles. Electric kettles, metal Electric kettle of the USSR

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The electric kettle appeared at the end of the 19th century. Its creator was a retired Colonel Crompton. He figured out how to mount his own invention - an electric heating element - into the base of a simple metal kettle. It was such a teapot in 1893 that was presented at the Chicago World's Fair. Since then, electric kettles have been continuously improved.

In the USSR, electric kettles were basically an original gift for some kind of celebration. A spectacular metal thing was breathed out of the box, gasped together, tea was immediately boiled, after which a pot-bellied gift shining with brand new metal was put on the table and, under the incessant compliments to a household appliance, they cut a Leningradsky chocolate sand cake or Abrikotin sand cake. A week later, it turned out that the miracle of household appliances mercilessly eats electricity and that they generally forget to pull it out of the socket. After that, the kettle was forever put into a box and stuffed into the mezzanine. However, sometimes they remembered about him - when the gas (in the cylinder) ran out at the dacha.
Nevertheless, the electric kettles continued to be donated. Once at our house such a teapot also appeared - painted under Khokhloma! Thirty years have passed, and I still regret throwing it away - it is painfully beautiful in its pristine painted vulgarity.

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1950s painting. If I'm not mistaken, then this is a duralumin kettle - a cousin of an aluminum one. It almost repeats the strict shape of its predecessor, but a slight taper towards the top is already there. In addition, a black plastic pimp appeared on its lid. But on the handle there are no saving pads yet.

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But on the canvases of art evidence of the 1960s, the teapot pens are already equipped not only with a safe pimp, but also with an overlay - the same black, but massive and even with comfortable recesses for the fingers!

T. Afonina. "Still life with willows". 1964 g.

Duralumin teapots were lightweight, prone to quick cleaning and even some pleasant shine. Therefore, they have been using them for many, many years.

Boris Turetsky. "Plate". 1969 year

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Enamel teapots - a hit of Soviet cuisines in the 1960s! Older people often called such teapots douche. Their only merit was that they were colored. However, the range did not please with the variety - the teapots were exclusively gray, blue and green. Nevertheless, at least some stain of color quite enlivened the heavy and gloomy (exclusively black and white) surface of the gas stove.

V. Nazina. "Breakfast". 1961 g.

All the paintings (here) depicting an enamel teapot have no overlays on the handles. But I remember my kettle, which had such an overlay - wooden and spinning like a coil.
Kitchen soot stuck to these teapots mercilessly. And the broken off enamel very quickly became like a sore. Thanks to God, everything inside with such teapots was also not enough - over time, rusty scale was collecting there.

M Roginsky. "Kettle". 1963 g.

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These kitchen tables, coupled with homemade wide stools, literally flooded Soviet kitchens until the mid-1960s. Even the kitchen sets that appeared for a long time could not displace these bedside tables. In the new five-story buildings, happy new settlers instantly littered five-meter kitchens with newfangled plastic cupboards, plastic tables and elegant plastic stools with twist-off legs, but the nightstands remained. They were hidden under colorful oilcloths, draped in an expensive self-adhesive film "under a tree" ...

E. Antipova. "Kitchen table". 1963 g.

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Basically, it's a coffee pot. But in Soviet life, it was rarely used for its intended purpose - it was just a small kettle.
By the way, in the picture he is depicted on a very typical for Soviet life, either aluminum or duralumin support for hot dishes. there were other coasters - typesetting ceramic, wooden mugs. And the hostesses themselves knitted them - either from old threads or from scraps.

Yu.V. Gorbunov "Breakfast". 1965 g.

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In the 1970s, enamel teapots with decals on the side, mostly some flowers, became very common. Such teapots were tall and narrowed, and their spout lost its swan bend and roundness, becoming straight and rounded in diameter.

A. Likhter. “Apartment series. Kitchen". 1990 year

In the late 1960s, there was a craze for dining sets - all sorts of ladles, skimmers and potato drills with plastic handles of the same shape and color.
And siphons also appeared! They relied on tiny gas cartridges. After pouring water into a glass and adding syrup, the siphon spout was immersed in the container and pressed on the handle. As a result, they got tasteless soda water - not at all the same as in street vending machines for three kopecks a glass of syrup. Because of this, siphons soon lost their attractiveness.
Also, all kinds of bottoms have become very popular - boards for cutting products. At school, in labor lessons or in Skillful Hands circles, children were taught to cut out such boards and apply a drawing on them with a burning method. Gift bottoms were bought up in stores - painted on one side with stylized national patterns.

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Whistling kettle - the madness of Soviet cuisine in the 1970s. He, too, often appeared in the family as someone's gift, they also rejoiced at him, for several days they listened with delight to his hysterical whistle, and then, with irritation, shoved him onto the mezzanine.

Dubkov E. "Moon path (night)". 2000 year

Now an electric kettle is an indispensable item in every kitchen. If a modern kitchen can still be imagined without a dishwasher or a large one, then it is difficult to do without a convenient kettle. Electric kettles began to be produced at the end of the 19th century and today they occupy a large segment of the household appliance market.

Each supermarket has teapots of different shapes, with different heating elements and different volumes. How to choose the best option for your kitchen? Does the shape of the kettle affect the boiling time of the water? How Do I Pick a Good Electric Kettle? Let's figure it out.

Old electric kettle from the times of the USSR. Not safe for children

What parameters of an electric kettle need to be considered

Volume. Before buying a kettle, decide how many people you will need to boil water for each time. If you are purchasing a kettle for one or two people, you should pay attention to the small models. They boil quickly and, as a result, consume half the energy of large kettles. If the family is large, it is necessary to select a model with a volume of at least 1.7 - 2 liters.

Important

It is recommended to boil water in a kettle only once. If water remains after drinking tea, pour it into a decanter and you will have something to dilute the hot tea for children. Water boiled several times loses all its beneficial properties and does not have a positive effect on the body.

Power. This indicator will tell you how quickly the kettle can boil.

Important

You should not buy the most powerful kettle if you live in a house with old wiring, otherwise you risk provoking a short circuit or fire when several electrical appliances are connected to the network.

Body shape. Modern teapots have several types of shapes. The best is the cylindrical shape of the teapot, as the water boils evenly.
Fastening the cord. On older models, the cord went straight out of the case, which was not very convenient. The cord is now attached to the stand.
Stand shape. Not so long ago, the first stands had a rigid fixation of the kettle in one position. It was not very convenient for people with a left dominant hand. Today, almost every company produces teapots with a stand, where a free installation of a teapot with rotation is possible.
Cord length. Many housewives complain that the cord is too short. However, this is thought out for the good of the client. The first teapots had long cords that caught on to the dishes or got tangled underfoot when the teapot with a stand was moved to another place.

Important

For safety reasons, the electric kettle must be placed near the outlet and under no circumstances use the carrier, so as not to catch on it at the most inopportune moment.

Body material. Now you can find on sale teapots made of different materials: plastic, ceramics, glass, metal. The most inconvenient is the metal kettle. If there are small children in your house, they will often burn themselves, because when the kettle boils, the body becomes hot. The most common and convenient option is a plastic kettle. The heating of its case is not as strong as that of a metal one, the plastic does not react with water, it is easy to clean.

Important

You shouldn't buy a cheap kettle if you doubt its quality. As a rule, boiling water from such a kettle tastes of plastic, which means that it was made of low quality plastic in an underground production and can cause irreparable harm to your health. Our blog will help you learn to choose.

Many housewives, in order to emphasize exclusivity and give a zest to their kitchen, pick up a porcelain or glass electric kettle along with a set. Such a teapot will become a decoration of every table. However, it must be handled with great care and cleaned thoroughly and regularly.

Kettles with a signal or with a light that lights up when the kettle is on the stand look very impressive, but this is a matter of taste, which will cost you completely different costs.

Choosing a good electric kettle for yourself, think about how to choose, perhaps you have a long time to replace your old frying pan.

Video on the criteria to consider when choosing an electric kettle.

A tall aluminum (if I'm not mistaken) kettle with a strict-shaped container - no merry ovals, rounded edges, cones and chubby barrels for you. And no wooden overlay on the handle - take a rag and grab it at random. There is no wooden pimp on the lid either - in order to pour water, the lid must be opened with the same rag (towels, potholders, your own sleeve). Hot and uncomfortable. And the kettle is not pleasant to the touch. But on the other hand, in the 60s, when elegant enamel brethren had long since replaced this kettle, it was convenient to take it with you on a hike - an unkillable thing!
Artist Dmitry Annenkov

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The electric kettle appeared at the end of the 19th century.Its creator was a retired Colonel Crompton. He figured out how to mount his own invention - an electric heating element - into the base of a simple metal kettle. It was such a teapot in 1893 that was presented at the Chicago World's Fair. Since then, electric kettles have been continuously improved.Zelensky B. Still-life. 1932

In the USSR, electric kettles were basically an original gift for some kind of celebration. A spectacular metal thing was breathed out of the box, gasped together, tea was immediately boiled, after which a pot-bellied gift shining with brand new metal was put on the table and under the incessant compliments to a household appliance they cut a Leningradsky chocolate sand cake or Abrikotin sand cake. A week later, it turned out that the miracle of household appliances mercilessly eats electricity and that they generally forget to pull it out of the socket. After that, the kettle was forever put into a box and pushed onto the mezzanine. However, sometimes they remembered about him - when the gas (in the cylinder) ran out at the dacha.
Nevertheless, electric kettles continued to be donated. Once at our house such a teapot also appeared - painted under Khokhloma! Thirty years have passed, and I still regret throwing it away - it is painfully beautiful in its pristine painted vulgarity.

Lavrenko Boris. In the Country House. 1950

But on the canvases of art evidence of the 1960s, the teapot pens are already equipped not only with a safe pimp, but also with an overlay - the same black, but massive and even with comfortable recesses for the fingers!
T. Afonina. "Still life with willows". 1964 g. Duralumin teapots were lightweight, prone to quick cleaning and even some pleasant shine. Therefore, they have been using them for many, many years.
Boris Turetsky. "Plate". 1969 year Enamel teapots - the hit of Soviet cuisines in the 1960s! Older people often called such teapots douche. Their only merit was that they were colored. However, the range did not please with the variety - the teapots were exclusively gray, blue and green. Nevertheless, at least some stain of color quite enlivened the heavy and gloomy (exclusively black and white) surface of the gas stove.
V. Nazina. "Breakfast". 1961 g.

All the paintings (here) depicting an enamel teapot have no overlays on the handles. But I remember my kettle, which had such an overlay - wooden and spinning like a coil.
Kitchen soot stuck to these teapots mercilessly. And the broken off enamel very quickly became like a sore. Inside, with such teapots, too, everything was not, thank God - there, over time, rusty scale was collecting.

M Roginsky. "Kettle". 1963 g.

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These kitchen tables, coupled with homemade wide stools, literally flooded Soviet kitchens until the mid-1960s. Even the kitchen sets that appeared for a long time could not supplant these bedside tables. In the new five-story buildings, happy new settlers instantly littered five-meter kitchens with newfangled plastic cupboards, plastic tables and elegant plastic stools with twist-off legs, but the nightstands remained. They were hidden under colorful oilcloths, draped in an expensive self-adhesive film "under a tree" ...

E. Antipova. "Kitchen table". 1963 g. ***
Basically, it's a coffee pot. But in Soviet life, it was rarely used for its intended purpose - it was just a small kettle.
By the way, in the picture he is depicted on a very typical for Soviet life, either aluminum or duralumin support for hot dishes. there were other coasters - typesetting ceramic, wooden mugs. And the hostesses themselves knitted them - either from old threads or from scraps.
Yu.V. Gorbunov "Breakfast". 1965 g. ***
In the 1970s, enamel teapots with decals on the side, mostly some flowers, became very common. Such teapots were tall and narrowed, and their spout lost its swan bend and roundness, becoming straight and rounded in diameter.
A. Likhter. "Series Apartment. Kitchen". 1990 year

In the late 1960s, there was a craze for dining sets - all sorts of ladles, skimmers and potato drills with plastic handles of the same shape and color.
And siphons also appeared! They relied on tiny gas cartridges. After pouring water into a glass and adding syrup, the siphon spout was immersed in the container and pressed on the handle. As a result, they got tasteless soda water - not at all the same as in street vending machines for three kopecks for a glass of syrup. Because of this, siphons soon lost their attractiveness.
Also, all kinds of bottoms have become very popular - boards for cutting products. At school, in labor lessons or in Skillful Hands circles, children were taught to cut out such boards and apply a drawing on them with a burning method. Gift bottoms were bought up in stores - painted on one side with stylized national patterns.

Dubkov E. "Moon path (night)". 2000 year

Metal teapots are popular due to their noble appearance, durability and ease of use. For their manufacture, stainless steel with a polished or varnished surface is used, which is resistant to corrosion from contact with water and to temperature extremes.

In the assortment of manufacturers, you can find both metal electric kettles and models for use on the stove or for brewing tea. Thanks to design solutions and modern coating materials, teapots made of steel have an attractive appearance, varied design and rich color palette.

In the catalog of the online store "Eldorado" you can buy a metal kettle for the stove, power supply or brewing drinks at a bargain price. Use filters, customer reviews and sorting options to choose the model that best suits your needs. You can place an order with delivery yourself on the pages of the site or contact support specialists for help.