For whatever reason though, I never heard a whistle and didn't realize it was boiling until I smelled the overheating plastic.

The hard plastic flip part that the hot water goes thru seems to be melting also.

, the water burned down, the kitchen had a bad melting plastic odor for an hour, as I took off the cover, the handle broke off, and it totally committed suicide.

Recently the plastic around the whistle on the kettle melted and the whistle fell off.

The plastic is not dense enough to withstand heat from the steam after the burner is turned off

The kettle's spout and mechanism that opens it will break apart as they are flimsy.

I bought the shiny chrome "stainless steel" model, washed before using, as they recommend, then boiled water for a pot of tea.

n’t had any melting issues

n’t had that problem yet,

I really do adore this thing and suspect I