Nice can! The best part is that because the electronics are in the base, it maintains temperature even after it is removed, cast, and returned to the base. Good buy for the money, it's sturdy, the lid is removable, which I like = better access for pouring and cleaning. The minor disadvantage/advantage is that you can see inside to the limescale that settles there after cooking. But it doesn't settle on the glass, only at the bottom. I don't know how accurate the temperature measurement is, and the restart/shutdown, but one sort of gets a feel for what degree one wants to heat to after a few uses. I'm watering/topping up my mate with it, and it's great for that.
The stratification of degrees too - from 60, 70 (initial pouring), 80, 90 (when my mate is already cold and I want to heat it up more) to 95, which is the ideal temperature for filter coffee.
At first it bothered me that I couldn't see what the exact temperature was - there's no display to show it, but you learn to live with it. Containers with a base and precise temperature are priced completely differently. Here, they saved on the display and thus could afford better quality elsewhere. It doesn't beep annoyingly. Completely unnecessary and "ugly" (within reason, from a distance it looks like wood in the gloom, but up close and to the touch you can tell enough) is the wood decor, which is plastic ofc - if there was an admitted plastic and it wasn't playing at being something it's not, it would be better. But it looks like it could last and it won't be just that cheap stick that gets worn off, but time will tell. I haven't tried the tea in the sipper, so I won't judge this one. Summing up, for the price mega awesome, and you get more than with convos at 2k and up, more detailed temperature grading than elsewhere. I'd buy again. P. S. the permanent heating turns off after about 3 hours, so if you forget it's on and go away for the weekend, it won't run until hallelujah.
