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Kitchen · Secura · 2015

Secura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle

An all-stainless water path and a cool-touch body, with no temperature control and a loud boil.

Stainless shrugs off acid cycles; plastic yellows — #1

Overall

7.3

out of 10

Axis scores

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

Secura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric 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. Secura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle: Performance 6.6, Value 9.2, Durability 8.8, Ease of use 6.8, Quietness 5.2.PerformanceSecura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle — Performance 6.6 out of 106.6ValueSecura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle — Value 9.2 out of 109.2DurabilitySecura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle — Durability 8.8 out of 108.8Ease of useSecura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle — Ease of use 6.8 out of 106.8QuietnessSecura SWK-1701DB Double Wall Electric Kettle — Quietness 5.2 out of 105.2Editorial 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

Body
Double-wall stainless, cool-touch exterior
Water path
Stainless pot, lid, spout and rim
Control
On and off
Capacity
1.7 liters

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

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • Hard water, where every plastic part in the water path eventually discolours
  • A kitchen with small children, or anyone who grabs the body instead of the handle
  • You only ever want boiling water and want the body to outlast the outlay

Skip it if

  • Green tea or pour-over coffee — there is no way to stop below boiling
  • An open-plan kitchen, because this is the loudest kettle in the comparison
  • You want to read the water level without opening the lid

The double wall is the reason to buy it and the reason to think twice. An outer shell that stays touchable through a full boil changes what a kettle is allowed to be near, and in a kitchen with a toddler in it that is not a small thing. The same cavity keeps water hot noticeably longer after the switch clicks off.

It also removes the window. There is no external gauge anywhere on the body, so the fill markings live inside the pot and checking the level means lifting the lid and looking in. Trivial once, mildly annoying every morning, and the single most common complaint from people who otherwise like it.

Noise is where this loses badly. Owner reports and reviewer consensus agree that the insulated cavity amplifies rather than damps, and the result is two or three minutes of something closer to a jet than to a kettle. Anyone expecting an insulated body to be a quiet body has the physics backwards here.

The switching gear is a bought-in British Strix unit rather than something designed in house, which is the boring reason the failure reports look the way they do. What goes wrong on these is corroded base contacts and a loosening lid hinge — the ordinary end-of-life pattern — rather than a kettle that forgets to turn itself off.

Descaling is where the all-stainless interior pays. Acid cycles as often as your water demands leave nothing behind, because there is no plastic to yellow and no printed marking to fade off. Two years of warranty places it above the disposable end of the category and below the premium end, and that reads as the maker’s own estimate of how long it should last.

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