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Kitchen · Fellow · 2017

Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle

The pour-over kettle: precise spout, precise temperature, priced for people who care about both.

A wide-spout kettle wins, and it cannot do pour-over — #3

Overall

8.0

out of 10

Axis scores

Kitchen is scored on these 5 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 5 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle: Performance 9.0, Value 6.8, Durability 7.4, Ease of use 8.8, Quietness 8.0.PerformanceFellow Stagg EKG Kettle — Performance 9.0 out of 109.0ValueFellow Stagg EKG Kettle — Value 6.8 out of 106.8DurabilityFellow Stagg EKG Kettle — Durability 7.4 out of 107.4Ease of useFellow Stagg EKG Kettle — Ease of use 8.8 out of 108.8QuietnessFellow Stagg EKG Kettle — Quietness 8.0 out of 108.0Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Ease of use — Setup, daily operation, cleaning, maintenance
  • Quietness — Operating noise — a higher score means quieter

Specs

Spout
Gooseneck, counterweighted handle
Control
Single-degree temperature dial
Capacity
0.9 liters

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • Pour-over coffee, where flow rate is part of the recipe
  • You want to set a temperature to the degree
  • The kettle lives on the counter and has to look right there

Skip it if

  • You mainly fill mugs and pots — the narrow spout is slow for that
  • Under a liter is not enough for a household

Filling a teapot from this is an exercise in patience, and filling a pan is worse. Under a liter of capacity and a narrow spout make it the wrong tool for general kitchen work, and the design accepts that trade deliberately.

In exchange, the gooseneck and the counterweighted handle deliver the slowest, most controllable pour in this comparison, which is the entire point for filter coffee. Flow rate belongs to a pour-over recipe the same way grind size does, and a wide spout dumps water faster than the coffee bed can absorb it.

Temperature sets to the degree and holds there, with the LCD showing target and actual together, so you watch the water stabilise instead of guessing. A stopwatch is built into the base. It sounds like a gimmick, and nearly everyone who owns one uses it.

The build accounts for the other half of the price. Machined stainless, a matte finish that does not show fingerprints, a base substantially heavier than it needs to be. This was designed to live on a counter, not in a cupboard.

Longer-term owner reports point at the base contacts and the finish around the lid hinge, not at the electronics. Both drift from cosmetic toward functional across years; neither shows up as an early failure.

Slide the kettle across a stone counter and the matte black finish scratches. The handle, while beautifully balanced, gets warm at the point nearest the body during a full boil.

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