Today, I am forced to retire the OXO BREW digital pour over kettle. After an incredible 14,450 cycles of heating water in it, since April 5, 2018. Yes, that may cycles, because it gets used around 5 times a day, every single day. And I'm not retiring it because it finally failed. Nope, still works great. I'm retiring it because I stupidly knocked it off the counter, and the handle broke. I've tried to crazy glue it a few times, with no luck. WHAT A WORK HORSE of a product. This is one of many reasons why I firmly believe this is the best pour over kettle on the market, ever. Sadly, it looks like it MIGHT be discontinued; not currently listed on Amazon. We reviewed it years back. Here's the slightly hacked url (sorry for the /. in the middle, remove the slash when cutting and pasting) https://coffeegeek./com/reviews/fullreview/oxo-brew-pour-over-kettle/

Note to self: stop reading Reddit commentary in the coffee related groups. There is *so much flex and 'look at me, I'm an expert, go f**k yourself if you think different'* crap in those subs - talking the espresso group especially, but also pour over, aeropress, and even offshoot groups like flairespresso. A lot of what's posted is factually wrong too. For instance, when a new product comes out, based on just watching a few youtube vids or reading what others have said in reddit, people who have zero experience or hands on with a product will go on and on and on about the product and how much suckage it has (or if they're fanboys, the opposite). All from 100% anonymous, unknown entities (other than posting a lot of crap to reddit). Just. so. incredibly. frustrating.

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