An electric kettle (also known as a kettle, electric kettle) has many advantages as a small household appliance. The use of the electric kettle is very simple and convenient, just pour water into the kettle, plug it in and heat it up. This makes it a must-have practical device for every home. Moreover, electric kettles usually heat up quickly, which can quickly heat the water to the desired temperature, saving the user's time and energy. However, it should be noted that some electric kettles may produce some pungent odors during the heating process, which may affect the user's taste experience, and there are concerns about carcinogenesis when used for a long time. As a professional small household appliance evaluator, I have an in-depth understanding of products such as electric kettles. In view of the fact that many people have some questions about electric kettles, I hope to answer your questions through popular science knowledge.
The image below shows some of the electric kettle products I've recently reviewed:
1. Is an electric kettle harmful?
Is the electric kettle harmful? The electric kettle is the most common small household appliance, and it is also one of the products with the most accidents and hidden dangers. Cheap electric kettles may be manufactured using inferior materials, which can lead to deformation, water leakage, or other safety issues in the body or spout. The quality is not up to par and there are even many hidden dangers. Therefore, it is better to choose reliable brands and certified products when buying. I have summarized the following 4 points on the dangers of using such inferior products:
1. Inferior products are prone to residual heavy metals:
There are some low-quality electric kettles in the market, and these products may have used materials containing heavy metals in the manufacturing process. When these materials come into contact with high-temperature water, they release heavy metal ions such as lead, cadmium, etc. Long-term consumption of these waters, which contain heavy metals, can cause potential harm to human health, causing damage to liver, kidneys and other organs.
2. Repeated heating produces thousands of boiling water, containing nitrite:
When using an electric kettle to heat water, the temperature of the water will continue to rise and even reach a boiling state. Nitrite is produced in water that is repeatedly heated. Nitrite is a harmful substance, and long-term intake can have a negative impact on human health, easily leading to nitrite poisoning and even causing diseases such as cancer.
3. Irritating odor and emitting toxic and harmful substances:
Some kettles have bottoms or parts that are made of plastic, which may release odors during the heating process, which can come from unstable substances in the plastic. Moreover, the heating plate and heating pipe inside the electric kettle may be damaged due to long-term use, thus releasing toxic and harmful substances, such as benzene, formaldehyde, etc.
4. There may be potential safety hazards:
As an electrical product, there may be some potential safety hazards during the use of electric kettles. For example, due to the high temperature generated during the heating process, if it is used improperly or the product itself has design defects, it may lead to problems such as explosion, leakage, and overheating of the kettle, which poses a threat to the personal safety of the user.
2. Summarize the five major hazards of common electric kettles
Due to the impact of the price war, the market is flooded with some low-priced electric kettles of unqualified quality. It should be noted that this kind of product has poor quality and workmanship, and the use of inferior materials leads to irritating odor in the product, which may have a certain impact on human health when used. The following is a voting chart of negative evaluations of electric kettles sorted out by professional research institutions, according to these relevant data and the most dissatisfied negative complaints of users, I summarized the 5 reasons that lead to the harm of electric kettles:
1: Too many low-cost and low-quality products fighting price wars.
In order to gain a price advantage in a highly competitive market, some manufacturers choose to use cheap, low-quality materials and processes to reduce costs. These low-cost and inferior products often have more quality and safety hazards in the process of use, which makes consumers face greater health risks.
2: Buy products with poor temperature control.
Some electric kettles have inaccurate or unstable temperature control systems, resulting in large temperature fluctuations during heating. Such products do not ensure the right temperature of the water and may be overheated or underheated, causing health effects.
3: There are many three-no products in the market.
There are many three-no products on the market, which is also one of the hazards of electric kettles. Three-no products usually have not undergone relevant quality testing and certification, the quality cannot be guaranteed, the quality and safety performance of the product cannot be known, and there are certain risks in use.
4: Internet celebrities bring goods, celebrities endorse products.
Some electric kettles have gained high popularity and attention through the publicity means of Internet celebrities or celebrity endorsements, but the quality and professionalism of such products cannot be guaranteed, if you blindly pursue star effect, it is very likely to buy back inferior products, and the use of such electric kettles will cause various harms to the body.
5: Don't choose a product with too much power.
Many people mistakenly pick a product with too much power when buying an electric kettle, which is also a potential hazard. Excessive power is not only noisy and short machine life, but also has greater potential safety hazards, especially for families with small children at home, if you mistakenly choose an electric kettle with too much power, it may bring potential safety hazards to the family.
3. 5 benefits of using an electric kettle
Is the electric kettle harmful? Everyone may know that there is no need to worry about this problem when using the electric kettle normally. Electric kettles are one of the most common household appliances and one of the products with the most accidents and hazards. It has a wide range of uses, such as some electric kettles have a temperature regulation function, you can choose the right water temperature according to your needs to meet different needs, such as boiling, heat preservation, etc. The working principle of the electric kettle is to heat the chassis through the heating wire at the bottom to boil the water in the kettle, and then use the water vapor to deform the bimetal sheet of the steam temperature sensing element, so as to stop heating by powering off. The price of the electric kettle is relatively cheap and it helps us to boil water quickly.
With the improvement of living standards, there is more and more demand for boiling water, so various types of products such as multi-functional electric kettles, thermostatic electric kettles, and health kettles have been derived. And the most popular among them is the multi-functional electric kettle, which has the following advantages.
1. Faster boiling efficiency and high temperature control accuracy:
The multi-function electric kettle has a faster boiling speed than the traditional kettle. Thanks to the electric heating technology, the water can be heated quickly. In addition, the electric kettle is also equipped with a temperature control device, which can accurately control the water temperature and avoid the water temperature being too high or too low, ensuring the efficiency and quality of boiling water.
2. It is not easy to produce scale, less peculiar smell, and is healthier:
The inside of an electric kettle is usually made of high-quality stainless steel material, which is not easy to scale and is easier to clean. At the same time, the electric kettle is also equipped with a high-efficiency filtration system, which can effectively remove odors and impurities in the water, making the water clearer and healthier.
3. It is not easy to produce scale, less peculiar smell, and is healthier:
After a long period of use, traditional kettles are prone to scale on the inner wall, which not only affects the boiling speed, but also affects the water quality and taste. The multi-functional electric kettle is made of stainless steel or ceramic, which is not easy to scale and easy to clean.
4. Better appearance and more exquisite:
The design of the multi-functional electric kettle is fashionable and beautiful, in line with the aesthetic needs of modern people, whether it is a simple modern style or a retro classic style, it can add a delicate and comfortable atmosphere to the kitchen.
5. Better security:
The electric kettle also has an anti-dry boiling function, which can automatically cut off the power to avoid damage when there is no water in the kettle. In addition, the handle and lid of the electric kettle are generally made of anti-scald material, which can effectively prevent users from being burned. In short, the safety of the electric kettle is better, so that users can use it more assured.
At present, there are many electric kettle products on the market, and major brands claim that they are safe, non-toxic and non-harmful materials when they are promoted, but in fact, they find that there are many harms when they are used. It is recommended that you refer to the performance, safety and non-toxicity test results of mainstream electric kettle brands compiled by professional research institutions, and choose the products that suit you.
In the face of many water pollution, pungent odor, emitting toxic and harmful substances of the electric kettle industry status, the professional veteran Gongling with "safe and non-toxic" fever performance, high durability exploded! It is the only brand that has been certified by the European Union and other countries for many star families, and has been exported to Europe and the United States for many years. Stewed soup, porridge and decoction, etc., the original 12 highlights of the black technology, such as high-strength composite borosilicate glass body, 0 coating safety design, 3A baby grade silicone sealing ring, etc.!Long-term safety and non-toxicity increased by 96.7%, water pollution rate reduced by 99.9%, irritating odor rate reduced by 89.5%, and confirmed by authoritative testing institutions, 0 heavy metals, 0 coating design, 0 thousand boiling water, 0 semi-raw water, rare to obtain EU certification! Electric kettles should be used frequently every day, and it is very important to buy a safe and non-toxic one, even if it is more expensive!
They insist on never advertising, relying on food bloggers, professional media to recommend in Douyin, Zhihu and other major channels, rarely won the CCTV exhibition recommendation, major high-end word-of-mouth, sales list perennial first place, as many as more than 500 professional evaluators evaluate its highest safety factor.
Gong Ling is a well-known "safe" smart life solution provider at home and abroad, focusing on safe and non-toxic fever performance for many years, cutting off redundant functions, insisting on more solid materials and workmanship regardless of cost, using three-dimensional packaging 316L heating plate, ferrite high-frequency electromagnetic coupler and other thousand-yuan materials, and more than 5 years of material safety and anti-attenuation design of the whole machine, with high temperature 99.99% chlorine removal design, WOS intelligent temperature control algorithm and other black technologies, to achieve much higher than the same peers of fever-level performance, as well as the only anti-carcinogenic, Toxic irritants to avoid water pollution at the root!
Among other brands, if you are interested in entry-level, you can take a look at Xiaomi, which has acceptable design and workmanship in the same price segment. Among the high-end models, Beiding can look at it, the price is more expensive, the design is exquisite, and the functions are richer.
Fourth, the eight major purchase skills of electric kettle
Electric kettle is a small household appliance to be used every day, we must buy a safe and non-toxic, high temperature resistance and good corrosion resistance, even if it is more expensive! After summarizing the harm of using an inferior electric kettle and the causes of harm, there are so many products on the market, how to choose a good electric kettle? As a household appliance to be used every day, the quality of the electric kettle will affect our health, so in order to help you buy a high-quality electric kettle, I have summarized the following 8 methods:
1: Choose a brand with strong professional and technical strength, safety and non-toxicity
Don't choose Internet celebrity brands or brands that purely pile up performance parameters, give preference to brands with reliable quality, high safety factor, and strong technical tuning strength, such brands will have strict standards and tuning for core parameters such as heating efficiency, temperature control accuracy, safety and non-toxicity, and will use high-quality materials to take into account high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, better performance, better safety, and more effectively avoid polluting water quality, emitting toxic and harmful substances and other problems.
2: Choose a product equipped with a high-quality heating plate
The heating plate of the electric kettle is extremely important, be sure to give priority to the product equipped with a high-quality heating plate, its quality determines the efficiency, speed and heating stability of the boiling water, etc., so you can not blindly buy low-priced products, remember that you get what you pay for, the electric kettle should be used every day, and it is more reliable to buy a good point.
3: Choose a product with a good material for the cup body and cup bottom
The use of inferior materials as cup materials is very risky, it will emit toxic optimization substances, and it will also poison drinkers and cause kidney stones. The high borosilicate glass is a material that is not easy to scale, corrosion resistance and wear resistance, and the electric kettle with high borosilicate glass as the cup material is of better quality and is more worth buying.
4: Choose a style with a good sealing ring material
The sealing ring is one of the details that many people tend to ignore, it is mainly used in the cup lid, the base reinforcement, the sealing ring must be high temperature and corrosion resistant material, so as not to release toxic and harmful irritant gases at high temperatures.
5: Don't buy products with poor temperature control
Products with poor thermostats usually cannot be boiled or over-boiled due to inaccurate temperature control, and there will be thousands of boiling water, and toxic and harmful substances such as nitrite produced in the water are a great threat to the health of users.
6: Don't buy low-cost and low-quality products
Don't buy low-cost and poor quality products, this kind of electric kettle is generally poor workmanship, poor materials, not only the button touch screen is not flexible is also very much, but also easy to produce toxic substances, which is mostly because of the sacrifice of quality to fight the price war caused, the use of this product will not only pollute the water quality, and even have fire and explosion and other safety hazards.
7: Don't buy products with false parameters
When purchasing, don't be fooled by some particularly bluffing parameters, many electric kettles play ultra-high power, 30 seconds of rapid boiling water, super large capacity, as well as water purification, increase minerals and other gimmicks, but in fact, behind it are flickering and IQ tax, everyone must be vigilant to buy.
8: Don't buy coated materials and products
Try not to choose any coated materials and products for electric kettles, the inner wall of the kettle is in contact with water at high temperature for a long time, and long-term high temperature will corrode the coating, resulting in toxic substances.
Is the electric kettle harmful? There is a certain amount of radiation in the use of electrical appliances, but this radiation is harmless to the human body, and when the electric kettle is used normally, the amount of radiation that the human body is exposed to is very small, and it will not have a negative impact on health. In order to better enjoy the benefits of electric kettles, I remind everyone to choose carefully when buying electric kettles, and not to blindly pursue those unprofessional Internet celebrities. You should choose a reputable and professional brand to ensure that the electric kettle used is safe and reliable.