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. They be personally had even worse luck with this in Europe.
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.
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.
It’s not perfect but I’ve been using this guy for a couple of years now and it’s been really good
I bought one almost exactly like this. It seemed nice enough and I used it a couple time but then I abandoned trying to make my own coffee when I travel as the hassle factor was just too damned high.
No mold / mildew issues with that? Imagine making a cup, packing that up, throwing it in my luggage and heading to the airport and not seeing it again for 18h. I tried a silicone collapsible water bottle once and it got gross.
Well I dump all the water out before I pack it but last year I literally threw it back in the box and it sat in my garage for almost a year before I took it out and used it again with no issue