a good ceramic kettle for induction?

[mr. Less]

hey guys,

i would like to buy a ceramic kettle to boil my water, because i have heard from many that ceramics improve the water quality and makes the tea sweeter and rounder.
Is there a good place to buy such a kettle, and i want to use it on an induction stove(so the kettle must have some metal in it at the base???)
how do you guys use your kettle and do you consider it a real benefit against for instance stainless steel

thanxs

[nonc_ron]

Sit your ceramic kettle on a cast iron Trivet.

[TomVerlain]

Not sure if I have ever seen a ceramic kettle to boil water, especially one for induction. I would think there might be cracking from the expansions differential between the two types of materials.

Corning ware has tea kettles, but it is not really what you might be thinking of in terms of ceramic.

There are glass induction kettles.

[Intuit]

All the inexpensive Japanese cast iron kettles that are enameled will crack on direct heat. I've come across a couple sites peddling sub ~$100 kettles that are enamel coated where the vendor claims you can put it directly on gas flame. Not too sure about that..

The French cast iron cookware companies make finely enameled stainless steel tea kettles for a reason. Put a magnet to their base - they should hold it just fine, and thus will work on your induction heating element.

Read up on how induction heating units work.
http://theinductionsite.com/

You put ceramic kettles on the stove/AGA/charcoal burner/firepit.

For the only ceramic tea kettles I've found, you must turn to Sunbeam Australia. They got some beauts..but they don't retail them here in North America. Been asking for them for more than a year now - begging falls on deaf ears.

Maybe my buds in Customer Service at Chantal America (in Texass) will pick up the hint: they hired a slick homewares designer to develop an ceramic-bodied kettle with brushed stainless steel appointments - handle, lid, spout cap - as contrast. They probably paid good money for the design in 2007; he's got it listed on the web in his portfolio with photo mockup. Casting the body might be tricky.

I think it would sell well and it fits their historic ikea-type (they will hate that analogy, so its not in caps..hahaha) model lines, without competing with their traditional enamel coated rolled metal and stainless steel kettles.

[Oni]

Dragon teahouse has an induction kettle, claiming it is made from yixing clay, it is made by Kamjove.
http://cgi.ebay.com/LTS-Yixing-Clay-Ele ... .m14.l1262

[Tead Off]

I believe someone on this board mentioned that Lin's Ceramics in Taiwan makes a ceramic kettle that can be used with an induction heater.