48% of 109 verified Stagg EKG Pro Gooseneck Electric Kettle, 0.9 Literowners don't recommend it — based on real owner comments from Reddit, enthusiast forums, and YouTube.
For balance: 33% recommend it. This page collects the complaints so you know what you're signing up for — read the full owner report for both sides. How we score
“I've owned my EKG for less than three years and the temp started going haywire and kettle boils over randomly over the last year.”— GTS980 on Reddit
“fw updating has never really worked correctly on my kettle ever since I bought it few months ago”— Rough_Suggestion1357 on Reddit
“I have had mine replaced twice and still have issues with it. Quality does not match the price.”— m60smurf on Reddit
“The dial gets both sticky and rattly at the same time, it just wasn’t a good UX imho.”— pullTheSpro on Reddit
“the time it takes to get to the target temperature is slower than what I would like”— BolThunderLord on Reddit
“makes an already slow and expensive boiler even slower and more annoying to use”— calvinis on Reddit
“waiting an extra minute is far more frustrating than missing the target by 1-2C”— Additional-Disk-3264 on Reddit
“it feels like our product got worse because I chose to throw it on our network”— _digduggler_ on Reddit
“I bought the kettle to match my kitchen color scheme It broke after a year”— Dependent-Potato2158 on Reddit
“The longevity and overall quality of the products is less than I thought”— cameronks on Reddit
“my three year old og stagg ekg is not functioning as well as it should.”— Muaddibiddaum on Reddit
“It's flimsy, the knob on the lid gets loose, the copper contact at the base was not always in contact with the kettle, leading it to showing the temperature while only pretending to boil the water”— MikaelDiameter on Reddit
Not complaints — practical notes from owners that didn't affect the score.
“I double checked the kettle itself. The firmware seems to have updated but the app says otherwise. So I can only assume this new firmware has messed with something for us all”— SpectralBeyond on Reddit
“I'm very glad this is being worked on. Is the improvement to heat times compared to the original time or the recently slowed-down time? I wonder what extra tweaks means.”— LyraOctagon on Reddit
“Hi Dan, I see that there is a new update posted to address this (1.1.76). Thank you for continuing to look for ways to improve the user experience. You guys are awesome, keep doing what you’re doing 🤘”— BackgroundWallaby795 on Reddit
“I added the wood option on the lid and handle. Other than that, I never saw anything in spec materials. So maybe at the flow regulator? Aside from that, the boil temp based on altitude is pretty neat.”— Whole-Row-9461 on Reddit
“I left it idle for an hour or so and came back, and now it's back to "Your kettle hasn't checked in for a while." But it did download the slow-heating update on its own somehow... just keep waiting maybe?”— endquote on Reddit
“Then you're free to develop the next build without the time constraint knowing that there are lots of users getting increasingly frustrated with the Stagg.”— CautiouslyFrosty on Reddit
“I think that you need to hold one of the button (do not remember which one), and then after few seconds it will display the firmware version. I think !!!”— B-I-C on Reddit
“However, I don't update the kettle because it doesn't work unless I put my phone on 2.4 gHz. So I'm not overly concerned with future changes, I just wanted to share my use case.”— OwnTurnip1621 on Reddit