HKM-7661523 High Borosilicate Glass Electric Kettle with Temperature Control and Fast Heating Function

HKM-7661523 · Electric Kettles · Borosilicate Glass, 1.8 L

A Glass Kettle With Light Under It

HKM-7661523 is a 1.8 L borosilicate glass kettle on a stainless base, with an LED ring that lights the water from below while it heats. The body is clear from the rim to the base plate, so the water level and the boil are both visible.

The glass is borosilicate rather than ordinary glass: it takes repeated heating and cooling without the clouding that cheaper glass develops after a few months.

One finish is listed, silver, with a black handle and lid.

At a Glance

• Type — borosilicate glass electric kettle
• Capacity — 1.8 L (marks at 0.8, 1.2 and 1.8 L)
• Body — high borosilicate glass
• Base — stainless, with a blue LED ring
• Control — switch in the handle
• Safety — automatic shut-off at boil

Materials and Construction

The body is a single piece of borosilicate glass with three volume marks moulded into the side. A stainless collar at the base holds the element and couples to the heated plate; the handle and lid are black plastic.

Borosilicate is chosen for its low thermal expansion. Ordinary glass stressed by repeated boiling and cold refills develops fine cracks, then fails. This does not.

• Single-piece borosilicate body, no seam at the base
• Three moulded volume marks: 0.8, 1.2 and 1.8 L
• Stainless base with an LED ring under the glass

What the Light Does

The LED ring is not only decorative. At night, in a kitchen with the main lights off, it shows the water level without turning anything else on. It also makes the boil visible from across the room.

It is a single colour, blue, and it comes on with the element rather than staying lit on standby.

The LED ring is not decoration: it lights the water from below, so the boil is visible as movement in a blue field rather than as a plume of steam, and the kettle can be checked from across a dark kitchen without touching it. The switch is on the handle, where the thumb already is.

How It Works

The listing describes temperature control. On this model that means the kettle switches off when the water boils, rather than offering an adjustable set point — there is no dial or display on the body.

If you need water at 80 °C for green tea, boil and then let it stand for a minute or two, or pour into a cooler vessel. That is the honest limit of this model.

A glass body on a stainless base is lighter than a steel kettle of the same volume, so it moves easily between counter and table; the trade is that it should not be set down hot on a cold stone surface. Give it a trivet or a wooden board and the glass will last.

Placement and Use

The glass body is light and the base is wide, which makes it stable, but glass still needs treating as glass: no cold water into a hot empty body, and no knocking it against the tap while filling.

• Level counter, away from the edge
• Fill above the 0.8 L mark before switching on
• Never add cold water to a hot empty kettle

Hand wash. A dishwasher cycle clouds borosilicate over time, and the clouding is permanent.

The handle switch is worth a note: it sits where the hand already is, so the kettle is started and stopped without reaching for the base. On a glass body that matters, because the alternative is touching a hot vessel to find a control underneath it.

The glass is clear from rim to base, so the water level is read off the wall itself rather than a window.

Included and Optional

One finish: clear glass over a silver base with a blue light beneath it. There is no colour on the body at all, so the object takes its appearance from the water and the light rather than from a coating.

Colours and Finishes

Silver is the only finish listed: a stainless base and collar with black handle and lid. Because the body is clear, most of the visible colour is the water and the blue light.

On a dark counter it reads as a light object; on white it almost disappears until the LED comes on.

Borosilicate shows scale as a haze on the wall, most visibly when the LED is on, which makes the descaling cue easy to read. Vinegar and water, stood and rinsed, clears it; the stainless base and the collar are wiped, and the glass is washed by hand rather than in a machine.

Care and Maintenance

Descale monthly in hard-water areas. Scale on a glass kettle is visible as a chalky film on the base plate and it dulls the light ring.

A 50/50 water and white-vinegar soak for twenty minutes, then a fresh boil and a rinse, is enough. Do not use abrasive pads on the glass.

The base is stainless and slightly wider than the body, which gives the glass a stable seat and hides the LED ring inside the joint rather than on the outside of the plinth.

The rim is fire-polished rather than ground, so there is no lip to catch a cloth, a thumb or a drying towel.

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HKM-7661523 · borosilicate glass kettle · 1.8 L · blue LED base · silver