Smeg’s retro-inspired Whistling Tea Kettle is beautiful—but it has more than just good looks going for it. Here's why one of our editors swears by it.

A stovetop tea kettle (that actually whistles) is good to have if you don’t have outlets in your kitchen and/or you enjoy the ...

Old-fashioned tea kettles boil water and that’s it. Electric cooking kettles expand that to include cooking food. They also boil a liter of water in less than 5 minutes.

And yet, I still believe old-fashioned kettles are where it’s at. (In fact, ... ROCKURWOK Tea Kettle Stovetop Whistling Teapot Yellow. $28 now 21% off. $22 Photo: retailer.

The old-fashioned nursery rhyme "I'm a Little Teapot" may be well known, but that's not necessarily the case for the historic tea kettle hanging for many years from buildings in downtown New Bedford.

The best tea kettles, ... is good to have if you don’t have outlets in your kitchen and/or you enjoy the old-fashioned look and essence of a vintage-style kettle.