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I am not doing well with my camping kit so far this year and am still to make my first trip away!!

Just dug out my little old travel kettle for our trip away and thought I would give it a clean etc.only to discover it no longer works. Hubby checked fuse etc but says its a dead one. So the kettle has found iself in the dustbin!!

 I have no idea what the wattage on my travel kettle was (it was so ancient) but what sort of wattage should I be looking for in its replacement - I will only use it for camping.

Hubby suggested we take our home kettle but I am worried about that not being suitable. What kettle do you take and what should I be looking for with regards to watts or amps so I dont blow the electrics on site?

We just use a regular kettle on site, emvid, and it is fine so long as we don't have another high wattage appliance on at the same time (such as a fan heater, say).

Boils much faster than the old camping kettle, too!

This is my home kettle

www.robertdyas.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=311&storeId=91&productId=31601&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=12052&parents_parent_category_rn=12051&top_category_rn=&showSubCategory=yes&top=&cache_entry=-1

Its 3kw according to the website. Is that OK?

Picked one up from Aldi couple of weeks ago - 600w for £5

Mike J

would definately use a low voltage one. only we brought one of those cheap tesco home kettles and everytime we plug it in the trip switch trips in our van.

were on the look out for a low voltage one ourselves . think we will try argos

we use a normal kettle but do have to be careful sometimes with what other things you use.

Margaret

Ours is a budget normal domestic kettle, but we did check that it was just 2kW and not the 3KW high speed as that would probably blow the electrics. Think I paid £5.99 for ours from Poundstretcher a couple of years ago.

We tried the travel kettles, but they are so small that we couldn't even get a couple of decent sized mugs of tea of them ... and we are a family of 6!

I  use  a   just under  2000  watt  normal  kettle  and  provided  nowt  else is   on ,exept  60 watt lightbulb   its  fine .

some  home kettles are   rapid boil  ones  though  so  wattage  will be  much  higher   and   best avoided  ,,  just  buy  a  cheep  as  chips lowest wattage  one you can  find .

we tried electric kettles for a couple of years, started with the 2000 wt one from home, found it tripped out a few sites we used so bought a low wattage one, it took such a long time to boil we went back to using the old whistler on the gas....

On a 13A supply I can run a 2.2kw kettle, the fridge, tv, dvd, sky, laptop, a second battery charger + an assortment of phone & radio chargers. given the choice of unplugging the heater for a couple of mins to brew up, or waiting an eternity for a little travel kettle, Ill unplug the heater thanks :)

In theory a 2200 watt kettle will pretty much max out a 10A supply