On the boil: How to choose the perfect kettle

Kya deLongchamps is gasping for a cuppa from the best-performing and most stylish kettles of the season

If an atom bomb alighted on Cork city in the 22nd century — as the smoke cleared in the survival zone – a dusty hand would erupt from the rubble waving a battered kettle. Long before coffee drinking culture was reborn from an 18th-century obsession, tea drinking was knit into our DNA.