On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:07:25 -0700 (PDT), David wrote:

All of them end up leaking after a few years of use,

Plastic ones tend to or the plastic starts to fall apart.

it will have to be a rapid boil element.

That sort of rules out the traditional in water element kettle of all
metal construction. Donno if any of the all metal rapid boil jug type
are any similaryly long lasting. We;ve just brought another Breville
Lighting, the base contacts on the old one had given up and the
plastic around the inside of the spout was deteriating, didn't leak
though. I think that may have been in use for 10 years so not to
shabby...


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Cheers
Dave.