halfords sell a dual voltage kettle for £20. boiling time is 10 (24v) - 18 (12v) minutes to boil. is that about right or is that a slow kettle? i need to invest in a kettle. paying over £2 for a coffee at MSAs is ridiculous and expensive with the amount i drink 
stopped using a kettle since i got microwave. 5 minutes to brew up in the morning. sorts out my coffee fixes… 
im not putting a microwave in my kit bag 
thats a good point scanny lol
Crap, forget it.
I’ve had two if them burn out on me. Save your money and go somewhere else.
The first time it just stopped working and the second time the bottom of it started to melt and lucky I caught it in time (by the burning smell) or it could of been worse. It was sitting on the tv shelf heating up when it went so can you imagine the bottom melted and all the boiling water pished out all over me?
bought mine six years ago never let me down the only i would say is id puta heavy duty plug oon the end the two pin lawmower type(bit of a prob if you dont drive the same moter all the time)as the hella or ■■■ lighter ones tend to get to hot and burn out, id say the kettle takes about 5 mins to boil if you only put enuf water in it for one cup
I got fed up with paying over £2.00 for a cup of coffee from a machine at the services so I tried the Nescafe Cappuccino to Go cups from Asda and Tesco - cardboard cups with coffee powder and sugar sealed in the bottom and a plastic push on lid. Same size as the Costa machine cups - just add hot water, stir and put the lid on. Cost for a pack of 3 cups - £1.60 so less than 1/3 price. Not bad tasting either.
I have got a 2.2lt airpot which I got for £20 from Trago Mills. Fill up with boiling water from home at start of week, and the water stays hot for a couple of days. Usually back at base for a trailer swap mid week so refresh with boiling water. Use my 24v kettle to boil the water back up, but with it being reasonably hot to start with it only takes a couple of minutes to boil.
i find that the gas burner and kettle does fine for me, in one of my trucks, if an electric kettle is plugged in, it always blows the fuse 
As a particularly fussy coffee drinker I always have a kettle with me and have tried out most available as they all burn out after a while. The best plan would be to have a separate socket wired up for them, as plugs and sockets get very hot. The kettles don’t last very long in my normal use (boiling about 0.75 lt twice a night) but I have put it down to experience, and know which MSAs have a decent stock of them!!
I have made a patch lead up ,one end plugs into the anderson power socket rated at 135 amps (i think) and the other has a standard household 3 pin extension socket. then my kettle and oven both have standard 3 pin plugs on so can cope with the power/heat etc.just make sure you have decent cable for it. never had a single problem with it but was wondering if its good enough for a microwave.
I got a 24v kettle, one I got from CDC. Supprisingly that takes 5-10mins to boil too
I’ve got a Waeco one from RoadKing, it cost about £40 and boils two mugs worth in about 10 minutes. It cuts out when boiled and has a mounting bracket so you can attach it permanently. It’s usually fully freighted and has been a good investment.
For coffee you shouldn’t be boiling it anyway, it’ll scorch the good stuff. My old one cost 9.99 from Winchester MSA when it first opened and only just died 6 months ago, so it lasted over 7 years without incident. My latest was about 15.00 from South Mimms (yes, I know, but a kettle crisis is a BIG crisis) and will heat enough for one cup of coffee in about 5 minutes, or boil in 10. Will do both in half the time if you turn the ignition on in an Iveco (battery protecter means it drops onto one ie. 12v otherwise). In other words, fill kettle and plug in before doing anything else of a morning, and by the time you’ve had a wee and cleaned your teeth it’s good to go…or booked into a job, opened the doors and backed on the bay…or made a sarnie and put the coffee in the cup…you get the jist. 
Ps. The old one blew up several Scania wiring looms, but that wasn’t the kettle’s fault, it was the Scania that was crap. 
Lucy:
it was the Scania that was crap.
Steady on, Lucy. You’ll get your head knocked off with a comment like that
P.S Renault Premiums are the best trucks on the road hides
Best 24 v Kettle currently on the market is the 24v Big Red Kettle, I’m not sure who owns the rights to them now as Pete Holland passed away around 3 or 4 years ago, but the kettles are still on the market.
The only problem I had with mine was the Thermal Fuse blowing if it was left to boil dry 
Anyone already using that kettle, I’ve got a boat load of thermal fuses lying around in the shed if you want them
I had a big red kettle, but it always got very hot around the plastic where the wires went in. Eventually stopped working so I got the CB shack guy at exeter services to take a look and it was the thyristor (?) burnt out. Apparently this is common, but you don’t need it anyway. He took it out and rewired it for a fiver and it worked fine after that. Still swapped over to gas though, as electric took far too long.
a camping stove is the way to go then? obviously i wouldnt be using it driving anyway so a plug in isnt really a necessity, just convenient. 10 MSA coffees (2 shifts) would buy a kettle and coffee/sugar so it makes sense to buy the kit myself
Waeco is the way to go, expensive but the best. I have a kettle and a coffee machine, both brilliant.
I got one of those uno stoves. At the time it cost me 9.99 for the stove, and the gas cartridges were 4 for 4.99. Just using the gas for tea or coffee, a cartridge lasts over a week, so less than 1.25 a week on gas. Cooking uses it quicker, maybe 3 or 4 days for simple stuff. The thing with a gas stove is you are not limited to tea or coffee which you are with a kettle.
this is where I got my gear from. I see the stove has gone up, but the gas is still the same. I know Rugby truck stop were charging over 2.50 for 1 gas cartridge 2 years ago 