A few months ago I got the electric kettle and quit using the microwave to heat water, which I pour over WalMart 100% Arabica medium dark roast instant coffee, the best reasonably-priced instant I've ever had. Even my eldest son, who was recently gifted a Chemex and several bricks of Cafe Bustelo, finds himself more often firing up the electric kettle and pouring it over instant instead of nursing the beans. The kettle is a little slower, but quieter, not a god-awful microwave roar ending with the insistent hey-I'm-done beep, but a gradually escalating rumble of heating water followed by stream-like bubbling and ending with a click as the kettle turns off. I have time to peruse email on my phone, alone for a few minutes in the kitchen before bringing fresh mugs out to my wife and myself.