Alternatives to Adagio kettle

[soapy]

response is


'The kettle is designed to work at the green colored setting and the orange
colored setting. Any setting in between these two will indicate boiling. We
hope this information helps!'

doesn't make sense to me then why have the settings in between for other tea types?

[soapy]

there response is now

'If its a greener colored oolong, use the green-tea setting. If it is a
darker oolong, 212/boiling water is appropriate.

Thank you for your note. Please visit us again soon'

Adagio Teas


now I"m soo confused and think the description should be changed
why the extra settings? seems useless to me if theres only 2 settings
so to my understanding now is that the kettle works best for the green/orange
settings.

Maybe I'll be shopping around again in the immediate future
so I'm now currently interest in learning about similar products too..

[Thirsty Daruma]

I know that any and all Zoji models have been ruled out because of budgetary constraints, but the issue of safety has come up in this thread. Does everybody who owns a Zoji believe that things are safe with a kettle that could potentially be on and hot at all hours of the day or even night? Even when you're not home?

[Pentox]

I know that any and all Zoji models have been ruled out because of budgetary constraints, but the issue of safety has come up in this thread. Does everybody who owns a Zoji believe that things are safe with a kettle that could potentially be on and hot at all hours of the day or even night? Even when you're not home?

Personally I consider them to be fairly safe. Safer than a lot of other devices around. They are pretty smart about when they don't have water in them. So long as there is water in the device I don't see much of a hazard present. Most of the potential dangers I could imagine involve heating something dangerous or flamable. So long as you're using just water I don't see much danger.

[geeber1]

I just got my Zoji, which I ordinarily couldn't afford, but my husband got our daughter and my dad and in-laws to pitch in for it for my birthday. I've used it every day since I got it, it's great!

I'm okay with leaving it on while I'm at home, but common sense to me would be to unplug it if you're not around, just like you wouldn't leave the iron on or the dryer running.

[joelbct]

doesn't make sense to me then why have the settings in between for other tea types?

That's totally weird. What type of tea is the orange setting supposed to be for? And why would they make the dial so huge then, a huge white range for boiling before the green, then non-boiling green range, then a white range for boiling between the green and the orange, then an orange non-boiling? Odd.

I use the whole range... all the way to the left for matcha (~160F after pouring into a chawan), to the very start of the green label for sencha (~175-180F after pouring), to all the way to the right for black tea, and sometimes in between.

Of course the UtiliTEA color labels are a bit off. But if you are trying to be accurate, you should be using a thermometer anyway.

The green/orange label is just a general guideline. There is no such thing as a universal 'Green Tea Temperature,' and even if there were, the water temperature will drop between 5 and 10 degrees when you pour from the kettle into your brewing vessel, depending upon what size and material teapot you are using.