Best Copper Kettles

The best copper kettles, ranked by our review scores. Copper is bought to be looked at, and that is a reasonable thing to buy. The question is whether it is solid or plated. Plating wears through at the handle and the spout first - the places a hand goes - and once it does it cannot be restored. Solid copper tarnishes instead, which polishes back, and lacquered copper does neither but must be kept out of a dishwasher or the lacquer clouds. Rose gold on a modern appliance is almost always plating.

Ranked by our review score, which is worked out from the specifications each maker publishes rather than from opinion, so you can open the arithmetic on any product page. Anything commercial is labelled and sits outside that order, and how we score explains what each criterion measures.