TopWit Electric Tea Kettle With Automatic Sprinkling

Works great and attractive too! 🙂 We have been using for pour over coffee as well as for tea.

This is purely an initial impression of the product. I don’t write many product reviews at all… I’ve probably done 5 or 6 in the past 10 years.
I was actually very pleasantly surprised with this little tea brewer. I just made my first pot, and it was one of the best experiences I’ve had with Amazon Chinese junk products. For the price, this thing is downright nice. It made a great pot of tea. Perfect for two large coffee mugs full. I just tossed a pair of tea bags up top, and it’s considerably better than just boiling water and dropping in a tea bag.
I saw the reviews about the switch failures, but if it holds up for just a half a year or so and gives me 180 mornings worth of good tea to bring to work in my thermos, this is a genuinely good deal in my eyes.
I’d recommend it at this point. And I don’t do that very often, especially for cheap chinese products. The steeping drip works great, and it’s genuinely better than just boiling water and dunking in a tea bag. It’s a perfect product for a person who isn’t a pretentious yuppie and just wants a hassle-free quick pot of tea.

Not often do you find a product that blends functionality with an elegant and stylish look, this is one of the few. Was the only one I saw that I’d really like to have out on the counter and it doesn’t disappoint.
Really like that it’s glass and therefor no plasticizer flavoring my drinks.
I bought this with the intention of just using it to boil water. Haven’t really done much with the percolator basket, so keep that in mind.
Some question I had when looking at it that I’d like to answer for other’s:

Will the handle get hot? Not even warm, maybe 10 degrees above ambient at the stems.

Is it hard to clean? I saw in another review where stuff can get stuck under the rim of the lid. To my pleasant surprise this is a total non issue as the metal ring is held to the glass by friction springs and pops right off for great access underneath and a thorough cleaning, though might need a brush to for the spout.

Capacity? Approximately 4 1/4 cups @ maximum mark, 2 cups @ minimum mark

Is it going to boil water fast enough with only 450 watts? Not if you’re going to stare at it and wait (though it is interesting to watch the convection currents as it’s heating). I’ve yet to wish it was faster, gives me time to get my pour over coffee setup and measured out, bring out the cream and such. Makes it more of an experience, which, if I don’t have time for I probably don’t have time to enjoy the finished product anyhow.

Is that spout going to work or is it just for looks? The spout pours really nice! Silent, even and steady stream. Not too fast (will come over the top if you try). Won’t dribble down the front no matter how slow you pour (great for slow pour over coffee). That said I might have to find a brush to clean it if I was going to have tea leaves going through and inevitably getting stuck in it.

One thing I wasn’t expecting, but I can’t exactly fault it for either, is that the automatic function won’t work for me. I think this is because I live at an elevation of 9000 feet where water boils at a lower temperature thence it’s not getting hot enough to trip the shutoff circuit unless it goes dry (might inflate my opinion of the 450 watt rating too).

I really like it so far. Time will tell if it lasts.

The kettle is cute and functional, boils water moderately fast, auto shuts off and overall works as expected. What I don’t like about it:
the metal rod inside has a plastic cap on top (you can see it in the stock photo), I am not sure what it is for but I don’t like it being in contact with boiling water so I took it off. In another review I read that in their instructions manual it said not to take it off. So I am not sure which is right but I don’t know how it can be BPA free if it has plastic inside. Also, it addition to having a max line for a maximum amount of water you can fill, it also has a min line. So I always end up boiling more water than I actually need for 1 cup of tea. That’s not very energy efficient long-term. The blue lights are underwhelming, they don’t light up the whole glass, just the rim. Lastly, if you think it’s slick seeing your water boil through the glass, take a look at the condensed look of the kettle after water just boiled. That’s how it will look on your counter for most of the day and it’s not a pretty look. It also came with a metal insert to make tea directly in the kettle but not sure who actually needs that. It’s not that convenient to wash it after and you can’t put it in a dishwasher like you could for a separate tea infuser.