Sage - The Tea Maker, 1.5L Automated Smart Tea Infuser with 5 Brew Temperature Presets - UAE Version, 2 Year Manufacturer Warranty

This is an investment piece for tea, lovers or people who just love to have tea after lunch safe time you just need a measuring thermometer or if you know the measurements fine never failed me to get the tea in the best taste ever

Have now used this almost daily for over six months so feel qualified to comment on it. Despite it's rather hefty price tag, we decided to buy it as our previous tea maker had broken just outside the guarantee period and could not be repaired! We followed the instructions carefully to start with but now rarely need to look at them as it's easy to use. It sits on a bedside table so we can have tea in the morning when we wake up. It's programmed to come on so that the tea is "brewed" by the time our alarms go off. The alarm, if you can call it that, is 2 quiet "pings", which sound when the tea is brewed and not when it starts to boil, which is great as you don't want to wake up before it's ready. As the tea maker is my husbands side of the bed, if I am asleep, it rarely wakes me up which again is perfect if I want to have a lie in. There is a "keep warm" facility which you can program in when you put the timer on (the night before) which enables you to snooze, if necessary, and still have hot tea. There are various programmes that you can choose depending on the type of tea that you want and you can choose to have your tea stronger or weaker as you prefer. As the tea is put into the basket (you can see it in the picture above the water) and is only dunked when the water has boiled, this means that you get a proper drink rather than a stewed one. We tend to use tea bags as it's easier for us in the bedroom but it's just as easy to use leaves. Easy to clean as well - not done every day, just emptied and then refilled, but cleaned thoroughly about once every fortnight to keep it in tip top form.

It's definitely too expensive for what it is but I dropped the last one and wanted a glass kettle. This one is the only one I could find with no plastic parts touching the boiling water which is very important if you want to avoid microplastics. We don't use the tea functionality. Turning on the water to boil sometimes requires the button pressed once and sometimes twice which is very bad UX but I will take that over microplastics. Limescale comes off really easier after one boil with teaspoon of citric acid.

We purchased this tea maker because we love waking up to a mug of tea. This tea maker makes a generous amount of tea and is fully automatic. It can be programmed to make the tea when you want it. It also keeps the tea hot until you are ready to pour it. We put two very large mug's full of water in the jug, and three measures of loose tea in the basket. We take this up to bed and put it on the base which we leave at the bedside. I have programmed it to make the tea at 7 am. We take the milk in the mugs. It makes just enough noise to arouse me from my slumber when the water boils and by the time the basket has gone down and up again I am usually ready to pour the tea. If I feel like a snooze the tea stays hot. I know that there are many settings for temperature and time of brew etc which I have yet to explore. I like quite strong tea and we brew at 100C for 4 minutes. The product is well make and has a good quality feel to it. I know it is expensive but it seems to fill a niche in the market and is the only tea maker which does everything we were looking for.

We have had this tea making kettle for two months, bought in a fit of pique at a useless, much cheaper teasmade. I bought this Sage kettle without thinking save for knowing it was ludicrously expensive. I was wrong, expensive yes, ludicrous no. We use it to make our morning English tea, four mugs of perfectly brewed tea kept warm for up to an hour. The designers have made a brilliant product worth every penny of the price that I once considered ludicrous. Wow!

I bought this as an Xmas gift for my parents, they are some of the world's most frequent tea drinkers so what better present! To start with the top line summary: When used properly Sage genuinely brews the perfect tea, it's a hefty price tag for a glorified kettle but as the bloke who sold me my bed said: "think about how much of your life you spend in bed; why wouldn't you invest a small fortune?" Likewise for those people who drink several cups of tea a day I think it's fair to say this item is a worthwhile extravagance. What they loved: The keep warm setting that ensures your tea remains at the optimal temp for an hour. The automated mechanism does everything except load the tea Looks fantastic in any kitchen sturdy and durable, certainly well made Beep to notify you when it's ready What they didn't like so much: You can't fill the kettle more than 3/4 or as soon as it starts to boil it prematurely starts brewing the tea as the bubbles spill into the tea basket the measuring guide, instead of being on the front, is on the handle which seems stupid as you need to cover it to hold it under a tap. All in all, this is a niche product that the average tea drinker would probably choose to pass on in favour of something 90% as effective for a quarter of the price, but it's clear this product was not designed for the masses and it is pretty great if you are into this sort of thing. Not my cup of tea but I can see why a lot of people would love it.