Any recommendations for a compact single cup travel kettle?
I call ahead and many hotels will have a kettle they will drop off in the room which is great but not all do this. I use a Jettle kettle and it’s ok. I can pack my grinder inside it. For pouring you need to use a Melo drip but it’s still a pretty messy pour. I don’t want a full on gooseneck, but is there something really compact that pours a little better? I’ve seen collapsable ones but those seem like mold incubators. I’d love something like a jettle kettle with a small spout adapter.
I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel that doesn’t have a kettle, just seems weird to not offer one.
I cant help with the kettle part, but I can help with the pourover part. I use a Hario V60 drip kettle air (its not a kettle, despite its misleading name) for pouring while traveling as its resin so unlikely to break or dent, its extremely light weight, and can give a reasonably fine pour to a gush, if that’s what you need. It does take a little while to get good with it due to it being so light weight.
I use a food safe thermometer to track the temperature, that way I do not care what kettle I use, plenty of reasonably cheap folding ones on amazon and the like.
I usually stay in waht I would call 3star hotels in the US. Funny I think the lower end ones and the really nice ones both tend to have them more often. Id estimate maybe only 70% of hotels I stay at offer them. I have personally had even worse luck with this in Europe.
Wow, I just have never had that, it does make some sense as its cheaper not to have to offer them.
I’ve heard stories of people boiling weird things like underwear in hotel kettles so I don’t trust them anymore because I’m paranoid…
That said I use https://a.co/d/3SzUQ4Z
It’s slightly larger and doesn’t have temp control but boils a decent amount of water and supports both 120/240v so I just stuff it full of things when I pack it.
I know people piss in them thats for sure, and at the very least water is allowed to stand in them far longer than I would allow with my own kettle, I cannot stand stale tasting water residue.
Well there’s a story I would have been better off not hearing, but at least they are boiled I guess! That’s really not good for your undies BTW. I usually run a batch of tap water through the kettle and then wipe it down to descale it a bit. I don’t care about temp controls too much. Most of these kettles start dropping temp pretty quickly and you lose 7F with the mellow drip so I just go about 30s off boil. I also like light roasts so this higher temp works out.