Here’s how it works. The best electric kettle can do so much more than make tea and coffee. Capable of boiling water in minutes, they can speed up your cooking time for pasta or potatoes ...

It also cannot be programmed to specific temperatures: As we said, it goes from zero to boiling and that’s that. But, if you did want to use it to brew coffee or a tea that needs water closer to ...

We can all agree that you have to use boiling water for properly infused English breakfast tea, and most of us also know that other teas, such as green tea, require hot but not boiling water.

One person claimed: "Definitely fresh water, not sure this is true but my dad told me that boiling water removes oxygen and the tea brews better with oxygen in the water." Another stated firmly ...