The base doesn’t look like stainless. Stainless steel is hard and doesn’t scratch as easily as aluminium or other alloys.

Brandani is Italian kitchen ware. Generally high quality, always avant garde. I can’t find that particular kettle, but suspect it’s stainless steel.

Is there a model, or any sort of stamp you can post?

That’s a really slippery slope! I’m also in Queensland, and have been in various states of the coffee journey for nearly 20 years.

My current setup, that really works well for me, is a delonghi dedica ec685m and a smeg CFG01 grinder.

I also import beans from a mates coffee plantation in PNG.

I love the coffee I brew, and it only took me 14 years to get to this point!!

My point is, experiment, go slow. Bean quality is probably more important than most other things.

I feel like I have seen that cat somewhere before, but I don’t recognise them with their mask on