The Kelly kettle owners thread

[Peasgood]

Are they any good for leaving permanently on the side of an Aga/Rayburn to keep warm and moving to the main hotplate to boil when needed?

 

No.

Lots better kettles around for that.

[hedgesparrow]

I am getting a Ghillie Kettle for my birthday next week - same as the Kelly but with a whistle instead of a cork

 

very good i think better than the kelly. but the bit for cooking on top next to us as other posts rors like a lion or hardly any heat. i wait untill water has boiled then cook on base. but dorset has te bees knes a stainless steel washing machine drum works a treat. or saw at a show a swedish candle with a ifference hole in side and cut in top light in hole and burns through lasted all day and hot

[AHPP]

No.

Lots better kettles around for that.

 

Worth getting to use for both or so utterly useless on the stove as to render that entire half of the equation null?

[Peasgood]

Worth getting to use for both or so utterly useless on the stove as to render that entire half of the equation null?

I have to admit I have never tried but I would be surprised if it even boiled on the stove.

Kelly kettle is designed to get the heat from the fire up the middle, which it does very well. On a stove you need something with a flat base to collect the heat.

 

I think you would struggle to design something more useless on a stove than an kelly kettle.

I have a cheap stainless kettle on my stove to do what you asked. You can buy them for a tenner.

[AHPP]

I think you would struggle to design something more useless on a stove than an kelly kettle.

 

Alas, that's what I was thinking. Was hoping for thermo-magic.

I just want double the excuse to buy a Kelly Kettle really.

[Peasgood]

It's for when the stove breaks down

[Peasgood]

I have got a Kelly kettle but this is what I usually use.

This works on the stove just as well too.

 

[James Atkinson]

got a question on the kelly kettle, i have about 20 min break usually, no more, would i realistically have time to prep a fire, light it and boil water in 20 mins? or would i be better of with something like a jetboil?

[James Atkinson]

*bump*

[NoRush]

Get enough dry sticks together and use a firelighter to start. Should be boiling in a couple of minutes